The Atomium may not look out of place today, but it was groundbreaking back in 1958. The building, which is a replica of a unit cell of an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times, was designed by engineer André Waterkeyn.
Escalators and a lift allow access between the spheres. CNN may have named it Europe's most bizarre building, but we think it's pretty cool that such a building exists.
原子结构似的建筑在今天看来没什么稀奇,然而在1958年 。这样奇怪的建筑绝对拉风 。这个建筑是建筑师安德鲁.瓦肯特的作品,其设计灵感源自铁原子结构,相当于将它放大1650亿倍 。
电梯帮助人们穿梭于不同的球体之间, CNN曾经将本建筑报道为欧洲最奇怪的建筑,而人们认为这是个很酷的建筑 。