These are some of the most amazing buildings ever made from one building that looks like a beautiful lotus to the twisted tower! Subscribe to Hectic Express http://goo.gl/PTUyyV # 6 Lotus Building This building blooms out of a beautiful artificial lake in Wujin, China. This is a floating flower turned into a fantastic sight called the Lotus Building. It is a two story building that is partly underground, that is the home to the city’s planning bureau, exhibition halls, meeting rooms, and conference centers. Although it is a largely functional structure, it was also built to be a sculptural piece of art. The inside looks as striking as the outside. # 5 Seattle Central Library This glass building is the Seattle Public Library System’s flagship building - the Seattle Central Library. The building was meant to look like separate glass platforms that are being held together by a steel net. This super geometric building can hold 1.4 million books and attracted over 2 million visitors in its first year of operation. The coolest thing about the Seattle Central Library is the fact that it looks like a place out of a dream from Inception # 4 Beijing National Stadium The Beijing National Stadium also called the Bird’s Nest for obvious reasons, is a premiere stadium used to host football matches, and is scheduled to host the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. It can seat up to 91,000 which is impressive but hard to fill. Since the 2009 Beijing Summer Olympics, the Bird's Nest struggles to keep up with maintenance costs. So now, you can rent a Segway for 20 dollars and do laps around an Olympic field. That might be the closest thing you get to running in a bona fide Olympic stadium. # 3 Odeillo Solar Furnace Usually, when the glass facade of a building is creating heat rays, it's an accident, not deliberate, but there are buildings built specifically to utilize this phenomenon. A Solar Furnace is a mirrored structure that is constructed at a curve, used to magnify solar power and produce extremely high temperatures, generate electricity, make hydrogen fuel, or melt steel. The largest Solar Furnace in the world is the one at Odeillo, France. This furnace is more than 177 feet tall and can create temperatures up to 6,330 degrees Fahrenheit. # 2 Walkie-Talkie Tower / 20 Fenchurch A skyscraper in London called 20 Fenchurch was making the rounds in the news a few years ago because of its distinct shape, but that attention wasn’t necessarily positive. If you remember the Solar Furnaces that use a curved glass shape to magnify the sun’s rays to super-hot temperatures, you might be able to guess why 20 Fenchurch was making headlines. 20 Fenchurch, which is almost ubiquitously called the Walkie-Talkie Tower because of its shape, was reflecting sun’s rays and literally melting things on the sidewalk in front of it. Cars, tiles, doormats and even people were melting, frying, and burning up underneath the Walkie-Talkie Tower. It’s no surprise that in 2015, 20 Fenchurch AKA the Walkie-Talkie Tower was voted UK’s worst building. # 1 Ryugyong Hotel This is the Ryugyong Hotel. It is a futuristic marvel of architecture with a distinct pyramid-like shape and unbelievable height of more than 1,000 feet. But the most unbelievable thing about the Ryugyong Hotel is not its size, its the location it calls home. Ryugyong Hotel stands in the city of Pyongyang, North Korea - a country addled with fascism and poverty. The Ryugyong was actually commissioned in the 1980s and despite its height, was an ugly building with weak concrete foundations and crooked elevator shafts that earned it the nickname “Hotel of Doom”. Then suddenly, in 2008 despite the fact that everyone thought it was unsalvageable, construction began again on the Hotel creating the mysterious glass building we can see today. But even then, tourists in North Korea are not allowed to visit the Hotel and it lies unoccupied and guarded by military police. It is completely forbidden to visit or enter the building which kind of defeats the purpose of a 105 floor, expensive, hotel. It towers above the rest of the city, probably built on unpaid labor and 24 years of on and off construction. After all that, it might not ever even be used.

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1. 15 looks like a bunch of washing machines stacked together to create a deformed tower
2. The exploding sound at the end of you videos is too much. It scares me every time. Little quieter would be great. I love your videos.
3. Good but too fast.