Quirky designs

Love them or loathe them, injecting fantastical or surreal elements can certainly add interest.

Chainmail church by Imre Makovecz:

Thomas Heatherwick's 'Blue Square Carpet'

The whale-like form of Ingalls Ice Hockey Rink by Eero Saarinen

Claude Cormier's 'Lipstick Forest' - isn't pink a cheerful colour?

All the images in this post have been captured from other websites and forced into slavery on this one ... mwhah ha haa! 

I claim no credit for taking the photographs.