Safety and practicality are paramount considerations in building design and urban planning. However, there are many examples of architecture that have ignored these principles, either out of artistic pursuits or because of design mistakes, and have become the focus of discussion.
This article will take a look at 32 examples of such buildings that may be visually unique, but raise widespread questions about their practicality and safety. Let's explore the stories behind these amazing buildings and reflect on the human spirit in design.
1. "Tunnel View" in Columbia, South Carolina, where vehicles passing by for the first time have to stop and think for a few seconds before they dare to pass.
2. When you really don't want a wheelchair into your house.
3. My eyes are messed up enough for this street.
4. This "crazy staircase", these stairs can really reach 90 degrees.
5. It's not so much a practical thing as an art installation. It looks cool though.
6. All these houses are connected by a pool, which is also amazing.
7. In the 20s of the 20th century, Fiat actually built a test track on the warehouse, which is too big.
8. One of the features of the construction of the Hindenburg - these are ladders for boarding.
9. This facility, designed in the 30s of the 20th century, allows residents to hang baby carriers on the outside of the building.
10. Homeowners believe it's a waste of resources for the middle part that the tire never touches.
11. This is the Trevor Ponch Silt Aqueduct in Wrexham, Wales. Just don't sway from side to side too much, or you'll be in danger
12. These obstacles on the bike path are barely visible.
13. When you fall down the stairs, you are buried by an avalanche after you hit your head on those boulders.
14. Did anyone walk down the stairs from the bathtub?
15. I once experienced this design in the stairwell of a hotel and was impressed.
16. This staircase design makes people feel dizzy just by looking at it, and safety is a concern.
17. The window directly becomes a balcony, which is also ingenious.
18. The Paternost elevator in Prague City Hall, do you dare to take this kind of elevator?
19. Does the wavy staircase make going downstairs more "fun", is this to force people to learn to dance?
20. Emergency exits look like the emergency itself.
21. The Monastery of Meteora, Greece, an amazing place, though not the best place for sleepwalkers.
22. Storseisundet Bridge in Norway, it looks like trucks are about to go off the edge, and the view is too scary.
23. Stepwells in India are designed primarily for practicality, but their architectural significance and temple function cannot be overlooked.
24. The urinal can see the street outside, and the windows are not blocked.
25. I hope you don't drop things because the design here may make it impossible for you to get it back.
26. Is it brave to slide from the 70th floor to the 69th floor of the OUE Space Slide in Los Angeles, California, an outdoor glass slide installed on the exterior of the Bank of America Building, made of 1.25 inches of glass?
27. Chinese Hanging Temples also have thigh-high guardrails.
28. Is this a door, yes, for Superman?
29. The obstacle on the floor of the doctor's office, if you trip and fall directly to the doctor, this design is too "intimate".
30. The Montagne de Bueren staircase in Liège, Belgium, is known as the most extreme staircase, is this forcing people to buy insurance?
31. The cannonball-ring waterslide is so dangerous that it closes almost as soon as it opens, is this slide a dead end?
32. It is foreseeable that many children will fall on these slides.
After reading these strange buildings with anti-human design, I just want to say: Designer, your brain hole is too big!