Right Angles and Wrong Angles Trivia Quiz

Answer: Barcelona, Spain

Architect Antoni Gaudi was known for his unusual buildings and designs built mainly in Barcelona, Spain. Located at Park Guell in Barcelona, Mind House is one of the two gate houses completed and comprises three storeys and an attic that looks as if it just stepped out of a fairy tale.

The building is currently used as a museum, exhibiting some of Gaudi's private sketches of projects, buildings, furniture and interiors, including many unfinished projects.

Answer: Guimares, Portugal

Stone House or Casa do Penedo is sometimes known as the "Flintstones house", and is constructed around four large boulders used as its roof, walls and foundations. The house took two years to build and its original owners used it as a holiday house. Now Stone House contains a small museum detailing the local area through artifacts and photos.

Answer: Delhi, India

An amazing building that really does look like a lotus flower, the Lotus Temple in Delhi is a Baha'i temple that cost a staggering $10 million to build. The building was completed in 1986 and comprises 27 structures resembling petals. The petals are grouped by threes therefore forming nine sides to the building.

There are nine doors (one from each cluster of petals) opening into the central hall space.

Answer: Brussels, Belgium

It is amazing to think that the Atomium was constructed for the 1958 World's Fair as the building looks so space age. It comprises nine stainless-steel spheres connected by pipe-like structures, so to the eye it resembles an iron crystal under magnification. Within the pipe-like structures are the lifts, escalators and stairs which gain access to the spheres. Within the spheres are exhibition and public spaces, with the top sphere being a restaurant that gives the diner an unbelievable panoramic view of Brussels.

Answer: Dubai, UAE

At the time of its construction, Burj Khalifa was the world's tallest building, and rises miraculously from the city surrounded by desert. Believed to be inspired by the Hymenocallis flower, it is a tower comprising three structures around a central core. Since being opened in 2010, Burj Khalifa has been a popular tourist site especially with its observation deck located on the 160th level.

Answer: Mexico City, Mexico

Nautilus House is located near Mexico City and (as the name suggests) resembles a seashell. Mexican architect Javier Senosiain used modern architecture coupled with inspiration from the sea, especially utilising shells, to produce an organic structure.

Answer: Vienna, Austria

More of an architectural installation than a building as such, "House Attack" was designed by Erwin Wurm in 2006. He placed an upside-down cottage on the top of the MUMOK building (Vienna's modern art museum), looking for all the world as if it had fallen out of the sky and landed precariously on the edge of the roof. Sadly, the structure has now been dismantled, but there are plenty of pictures of it available online if you want to see what it looked like.

Answer: Hauterives, France

Ferdinand Cheval was a French postman who designed and built his vision, the Ideal Palace (Le Palais Ideal) over a period of 33 years, starting in 1879. Whilst delivering mail Cheval collected stones for his building, initially in his pockets but later using a wheelbarrow.

The outer building took him 20 years and the rest a further 13 years. Cheval combines various styles with inspiration from Christianity and Hinduism.

Answer: Arkhangelsk, Russia

This wooden structure known as the Wooden Gangster House or Sutyagin House in Arkhangelsk, Russia was a 13-storey residence belonging to a criminal named Nikolai Sutyagin. The building, believed to be the world's tallest wooden house, took 15 years to complete, starting in 1992 and finished in 2007.

There had never been any formal plans or permits for the building, which deteriorated whilst its owner was in prison. It was condemned as a fire hazard by the city council in 2008, and was subsequently pulled down. What was left of it then burned to the ground in a fire in 2012. Now, only photographic evidence remains of this extraordinary wooden building.

Answer: Beijing, China

The locals call the CCTV Headquarters building "Big Pants". I too think that, from a distance, the building looks like a giant pair of pants or trousers. It was built as three separate buildings and then joined together in 2007 to create its current look.