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These Destroyed-Looking Buildings Are Actually Fine

Posted May 11, 2013 5:56 PM

From Mental Floss:

Sometimes, architects design structures that are meant to look damaged in some manner or another.    

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05/11/2013 7:59 PM

From now on thats what I am going with! My house is not a mess. It's just designed to look that way.

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05/11/2013 8:32 PM

Good luck tryin' to sell that !!

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05/12/2013 7:00 AM

Dancing house in Prague:

And... one of the dance shoes responsible for that architecture:
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05/12/2013 12:31 PM

I see this stuff all the time when I go back home to the hills of Arkansas.

It has just "aged" naturally.
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05/13/2013 9:57 AM

Hmmmm...I need to show this to my wife! Maybe I can get out of rebuilding the tool shed!

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