{"id":120724,"date":"2025-09-07T12:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120724\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:10:07","slug":"the-grid-weird-and-whimsical-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/120724\/","title":{"rendered":"The grid: weird and whimsical buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"2gzh1\">Surprises, or things that \ufeffconfound our expectations, \ufeffare often \ufeffjoyful. \ufeffAnd there\u2019s certainly\ufeff an element of delight when it comes to Weird Buildings, a new book from Hoxton Mini Press \ufeffthat\u00a0upends notions of the\u00a0possibilities of architecture.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"x2k5j\">Rather than the quotidian tower blocks, houses or municipal offices that may come to mind when we think of buildings, this \ufeffcollection \ufeffcovers everything from fairy tale-like homes built into rock faces\ufeff and churches \ufeffthat could be from outer\ufeff space\ufeff to hotels that\u00a0look like a turbocharged Wes Anderson setting\ufeff. There is even a structure shaped like a fish: \ufeffthe whimsical \ufeffheadquarters \ufeffof India\u2019s National Fisheries Development Board\ufeff.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ebmav\">Spanning outlandish exteriors and\u00a0fanciful interiors, \ufeffWeird Buildings is a\u00a0welcome celebration of playfulness and boundless imagination.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"eblrz\">Photographs by Alamy, Getty Images, Finbarr Fallon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surprises, or things that \ufeffconfound our expectations, \ufeffare often \ufeffjoyful. \ufeffAnd there\u2019s certainly\ufeff an element of delight when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-120724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}