Most Debated Buildings Around The World - 50 Strange Photos
Projects that spark endless debate
Some buildings don’t just sit there and look pretty, they argue back. From a “Toilet Bowl Building” in Virginia to the “Hairy Crab Ecological Museum” sitting by Yangcheng Lake, this list is basically architecture with a sense of humor and no interest in playing it safe.
And it gets messier fast, because these places aren’t all art projects. There’s student housing in Australia and the Netherlands, a bank in Tuzla, Bosnia, and even the HQ of the People Liberation Army in Hong Kong. Add in mixed commercial-residential complexes in Taiwan, the cracked stacks in Minneapolis, and the abandoned Burj Al Babas in Turkey, and suddenly “function” starts feeling like a moving target.
One photo at a time, these buildings make you wonder who they were built for, and what they were trying to prove.
Buildings that challenge ideas of beauty and function.
RedditBank In Tuzla, Bosnia
True_ToniMuseum Of Pop Culture In Seattle
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A Lot Of The Mixed Commercial-Residential Complexes In Taiwan
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Home Of The Richest Man In India
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Weymouth Street Student Accommodation (Australia).
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The Task, Mexico
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Building In Calgary
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Boston City Hall
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North China University Of Water Resources And Electric Power Has Them Beat
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Student Housing Appartments In The Netherlands
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In Buenos Aires City
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Tokyo
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A Pig Farm,China
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The National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) Headquarters In Hyderabad, India
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The Town Hall Of The City,Netherlands
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Wyndham Court, Southampton, England
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This Building In São Paulo.
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Simmons Hall, At The Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
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Blues Point Tower In Sydney
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Brisbane, The Parliamentary Annex
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Nevigeser Wallfahrtsdom, Germany
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It echoes the AITA poster who reported a colleague for plagiarism and got them suspended.
Fanum House In Belfast
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Elephant Building In Bangkok, Thailand
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The Hq Of The People Liberation Army, Hong Kong
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Australia
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Crack Stacks. Minneapolis, MN
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Hotel In Edinburgh, Scotland
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"Hairy Crab Ecological Museum" Located On The Shore Of Yangcheng Lake In Kunshan, Suzhou, China
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The New Embassy, Mexico
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Trump Tower In New York City
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The Wrapper Office Building In Culver City, CA
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Embassy Of The United States, London
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Salesforce Tower, San Francisco
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The Beehive, Wellington, New Zealand
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In Sweden, The Station Building Next To The Train Station
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World Toilet Association, Located In Suwon, South Korea
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The North Dakota State Capitol
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Kent Street In Sydney
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A Building At The Wellington International Airport Called The Rock
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River North One In Denver, Colorado
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Australia
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In Japan, The Asahi Buildings, Which House The Asahi Breweries HQ
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The Tour Montparnasse, Paris
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The Longanberger Basket Building Near Dresden, OH, USA
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The Toilet Bowl Building, Virginia. USA
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The Thompson Center, Tennessee, USA
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Burj Al Babas Is An Abandoned Residential Development In Mudurnu, Turkey
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The Domenig-House In Vienna, Austria
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Bjarke Ingels, Denmark
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The Orthodox Cathedral In Bucharest, Romania
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The moment you see the Bank in Tuzla, Bosnia next to the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, it’s clear some cities chase money, and others chase weird.</p>
Then you hit the student housing in Australia and the Netherlands, and the whole “beauty and function” debate turns into, who actually has to live with it?</p>
The argument gets louder when the Toilet Bowl Building in Virginia shows up right after the World Toilet Association in Suwon, South Korea, like the theme was always “we mean it.”</p>
And by the time you reach Burj Al Babas in Turkey, you can’t ignore the sad punchline, the dream building still got left behind.</p>
Architecture doesn’t always strike a clean balance between form and function, and that tension is what makes some buildings so divisive. One person sees creative vision, another sees an eyesore.
Still, they hold attention and start debates. Whether praised or criticized, these structures prove how much personal taste influences how we judge the spaces around us.
These places don’t just break stereotypes, they make you question what “normal” was supposed to look like.
Still, there is a similar career ethics mess, see the Redditor who took a colleague's work credit to secure a promotion.
