Architecture Designs

The world’s worst skyscraper disaster is still fresh in our minds, and every year sees a new calamity in our global obsession with building storey after storey, higher and higher. You would think that all architects would be careful to  make their buildings look as stable as mountains. You’d be wrong. Thanks to modern building materials and behind-the-scenes architectural wizardry,  the new field of precarious-looking urban architecture is on the rise – as these ten vertigo-inducing examples illustrate.

Capital Gate, Abu Dhabi - leaning against the building of the world's most acute. It bows out 18 degrees from vertical - in comparison, the tower of Pisa's famous leaning on only 3.99 degrees. Technology ambitious and stunning architecture, it looks like nothing on earth. (Well, okay, it does look like something special, but this is family friendly corner of the Web and we refuse to draw certain parallels) in famous modern architecture buildings. via