Looks like the crooked house in Sopot, Poland
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By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/looks-like-the-crooked-house-in-sopot-poland.htmlIn Sopot on the street heroes of Monte Cassino (Poland) is one of the most unusual homes on the planet, it's called — crooked house (in Polish-Krzywy Domek). Looking at him the impression that he either melted in the sun and twisted or is it an optical illusion and it's not the house itself, but a reflection in a huge distorting mirror.
A house curve is actually a curve: there's not a single smooth space and angle. This unusual building was built in 2004 by two Polish architects Satinsky and Zalewski, impressed by the paintings of artists Jan Marcin of Santera and Pen of Oscar Dalberg.
The main task of the authors to the customer, which was a shopping center, "Resident", was the creation of the appearance of the structure, which would attract more visitors.
When building a house, architects have realized many unusual and extraordinary ideas, so that Krzywy Domek has become world famous.
In the design of facade from a variety of materials, from glass to stone, and the roof of enameled plates resembles a curved back of a dragon.
Doors, Windows in the same way as the walls of the building are asymmetrical and fancifully bent, creating a home is the sight of some fabulous cabin.
Useful building area is about 4000 m2. On the ground floor is located a shopping center, shops, restaurant, cafe, and salon of slot machines on the second floor are the offices of local radio stations and several museums — the Maritime Museum of Contemporary Crafts.
On the ground floor there is a wall with many signatures, it's own "Wall of fame" crooked house, it is analogous to the Avenue of stars in Hollywood sign celebrities who visited this place.
Crooked house works around the clock, day shopping centre, cafes and other establishments, in the evening begin to open pubs and clubs and the house is in darkness even more beautiful.
On the third floor the pubs and clubs for the entertainment of the local youth and city guests.
In 2009 the building was recognized as one of the seven wonders of the Tricity, which consists of Gdynia, Gdansk and Sopot.
And according to a recent poll of the newspaper "the Village of Joy" crooked house topped the list of the fifty most unusual buildings in the world.
This unusual and beautiful house can be found at: Sopot, bohaterów Monte Cassino 53 (Bohaterów Monte Cassino 53). Tourists coming to Poland do not leave it without the pictures on the background of fabulous crooked house (Krzywy Domek).
Keywords: House beautiful | Unusual | Poland
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