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On the website Strangebuildings.com you can find some very interesting buildings that dot the landscape around the world. The good folks at Bored Panda.com decided to ask people who visit their site to vote on the buildings they found the strangest, based on the 4, 520 votes received by boredpanda.com  the  33 photos represented here are how they were selected.

• 1. Mind House (Barcelona, Spain)

 

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Source Strangebuildings.com Boredpanda.com and thanks to Margie (thanks Cuz)
 

(Bamboo leaf for angelocesare via www.boredpanda.com)

2. The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for brocha via strangebuildings.com)

3. Stone House (Guimarães, Portugal)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for Jsome1 via strangebuildings.com)

4. Lotus Temple (Delhi, India)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for MACSURAK via strangebuildings.com)

5. Cathedral of Brasilia (Brazil)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for = xAv = via strangebuildings.com)

6. La Pedrera (Barcelona, Spain)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for joe_aesmorga via strangebuildings.com)

7. Atomium (Brussels, Belgium)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for /*dave*/ via strangebuildings.com)

8. Museum of Contemporary Art (Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

 

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(Bamboo leaves for 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 via strangebuildings.com)

9. Kansas City Library (Missouri, USA)

 

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(Bamboo leaf forjonathan_moreau via strangebuildings.com)

10. Low impact woodland house (Wales, UK)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for Simon via strangebuildings.com)

11. Guggenheim Museum (Bilbao, Spain)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for disgustipado via strangebuildings.com)

12. Rotating Tower, Dubai, UAE

 

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(Bamboo leaf for Dynamic Architecture â„¢ all rights reserved to Dr. David Fisher)

Have you ever seen a building in motion that actually changes its shape? Sounds unbelievable but not to Dr. David Fisher. This building will never appear exactly the same twice.

It is amazing but you will have the choice of waking up to sunrise in your bedroom and enjoying sunsets over the ocean at dinner.

In addition to being such an incredible engineering miracle it will produce energy for itself and even for other buildings because it will have wind turbines fitted between each rotating floor (picture 2). So an 80-story building will have up to 79 wind turbines, making it a true green power plant.

13. Habitat 67 (Montreal, Canada)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for ken ratcliff via strangebuildings.com)

14. Casa da musica (Porto, Portugal)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for Osvaldo Gago – fotografar.net)

15. Olympic Stadium (Montreal, Canada)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for Wikipedia via strangebuildings.com)

16. Nautilus House (Mexico City, Mexico)

 

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(via strangebuildings.com)

17. The National Library (Minsk, Belarus)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for ledsmagazine.com via strangebuildings.com)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for .magullo. via strangebuildings.com)

18. National Theatre (Beijing, China)

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(Bamboo leaf for Azure Lan via strangebuildings.com)

19. Conch Shell House, Isla Mujeres, Mexico

 

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(Bamboo leaf for Mark Stadnik via strangebuildings.com)

 

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20. House Attack (Viena, Austria)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for Dom Dada via strangebuildings.com)

21. Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for Bibliotheca Alexandrina strangebuildings.com)

22. Cubic Houses (Kubus woningen) (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

 

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(Bamboo leaves for sarmax via strangebuildings.com)

23. Ideal Palace (France)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for Mélisande* via strangebuildings.com)

24. The Church of Hallgrimur, Reykjavik, Iceland

 

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(Bamboo leaf for Stuck in Customs via strangebuildings.com)

25. Eden project (United Kingdom)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for wikipedia via www.boredpanda.com)

26. The Museum of Play (Rochester , USA)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for Mike.Hanlon via strangebuildings.com)

27. Atlantis (Dubai, UAE)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for Tom Olliver via strangebuildings.com)

28. Montreal Biosphere (Canada)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for: wikipedia via via www.boredpanda.com)

29. Wonderworks (Pigeon Forge, TN, USA)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for Rusl?k via strangebuildings.com)

30. The Basket Building (Ohio, USA)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for addicted Eyes via strangebuildings.com)

31. Kunsthaus (Graz, Austria)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for watz via www.boredpanda.com)

32. Forest Spiral (Darmstadt, Germany)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for Kikos Dad via www.boredpanda.com)

33. Wooden Gagster House (Archangelsk, Russia)

 

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(Bamboo leaf for deputy-dog.com via strangebuildings.com)

P.S.: Looking for more information about any of these buildings (date it was built, architect, interior shots) Strangebuildings.com.

 If you would like to see how they voted check  here

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            First and foremost, these affiliates of the Miss Black USA pageants

focus on recognizing scholastic achievement and the impact that education can have on achieving lifetime success. Lori Bryant, the 2010 Miss Black New Jersey USA winner, plans on attending law school in the fall of 2010 while also working to start her own online book club that will cater to issues that directly affect African American women. In addition, she seeks to give back to her community by teaching free dance lessons to inner-city youth in addition to encouraging young people to vote and advocating breast cancer awareness.  She believes that success “can be defined as a journey where one has to overcome obstacles that shape his or her character.”

            The main pageant itself is definitely an event that leads its young female participants to grow as individuals. The Miss Black New Jersey and the Miss Black New York competitions are based on participants’ scores in a personal interview, on-stage question and answer, a talent, evening gown, and personal fitness. Fedlene Larose, the 2010 winner of the Miss Black New Jersey Talented Teen competition, believes that, while many perceive pageants are based on beauty or superiority, that it challenges “physical and mental endurance.” Larose is convinced that the Miss Black New Jersey Talented Teen competition helped her to learn what she is capable of, in addition to the various aspects that she needs to improve on in order to project herself as a “confident young woman.”

            The Miss Black New Jersey USA and the Miss Black New York USA pageants, in addition to each organization’s Talented Teen pageants, seek to showcase the talent, beauty, and intellect of young women to family, friends, and a panel of judges in 2011. Applicants for the Miss Black New Jersey and Miss Black New York pageants must be between the ages of eighteen and twenty-seven and must be either a high school graduate or in their senior year of high school. They must live, work, or attend school in either New Jersey or New York respectively, and, in addition, have a 2.5 cumulative GPA at the time of their application. Talented Teen applicants must be between the ages of thirteen to seventeen. Interested young women should apply online at either www.missblacknewjersey.org and www.missblacknewyork.org.

            Larose speaks highly of the way the pageant helped her learn the importance of responsibility, dependability, and commitment. The pageant winners’ focus and drive for causes and lessons outside of the typical conception of beauty pageants is certainly something that young women-as well as men and women of all ages araces can certainly learn from themselves.

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