Designing an architectural building that will visually engage and attract spectators can be a challenging task, but these magnificent maze-like structures will surely intrigue people with their abstract designs.
Mazes are often associated with outdoor activities that children often like to play. It involves creating a large and intricate puzzle in which people have to navigate through different and diverse passages to find the designated end spot. By incorporating the whimsically zig-zag pattern of mazes and their magically hypnotic design into modern architectural structures, designers are able to create beautifully intricate layouts that will surely draw in spectators on the street.
From glass box labyrinths to stacked jungle gym schools, these maze-like structures are taking architectural design to the next level by infusing such abstract and wonderfully detailed layouts.
17 Magnificent Maze-Like Structures

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Maze-Filled Minimalist Houses
The House of Hyogo Cascades Through Stairs and Slopes

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Cubic Labyrinth Interiors
The JAIST Gallery Design is Inspired by Cryptic Puzzles
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Roofed Treehouse Residences
The Suppose Design House in Fukawa Encases Cantilevered Spaces
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Sleek Structural Mazes
The Biomedical Research Center by Behles & Jochimsen Architects is Complex
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City Stalling Installations
The 'Garden of Forking Paths' Gives the Opportunity to Slow Down
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Accordian Architecture
The Condesa DF Hotel Has a Courtyard of Folding Facades
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Cube-Conscious Theaters
The Wuhan Pixel Box Cinema Features Blocked Box Accents
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Minimal Labyrinth Spaces
The ‘AA House’ By MVN Arquitectos is a Maze of Elegant Archit
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Intricate Grid Interiors
Stills Flagship Store by Doepel Strijkers Features Elaborate Lattices
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Sporty Staircase Houses
The Nendo Puma House Tokyo is an Exsquisitely Original Event Space
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Descending Eco Domiciles
'The Hillside House' Represents Spectacular Design and Sustainability
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Geometric Dome Structures
The King's Cross Train Station Redevelopment is Dynamically Designed
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Maze-Like Flagship Stores
The Coach Flagship Store in Tokyo was Reinvented by OMA Firm
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Crimson-Maze Storage Constructions
The Locker Room by Belsize Architects Enhances Exposed Columns
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Glass Box Labyrinths
The Cubed Maze3 Concept is Completely Transparent
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Stone Maze Memorials
The Wall of Memory Pays Homage to Deceased Nuns
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Stacked Jungle Gym Schools
The Columbia University Medical Centre is a Complex Glass Labyrinth
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Cactus-Inspired Urban Skyscrapers
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Staggered Floor Modern Residences
Malý Chmel Designed the House of Seven Floors in Czech Republic
Infinity Loop-Shaped Museums
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Discreet Architectural Polish Homes
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Maze-Inspired 3D-Printed Lamps
Stijn van Aardenne Designs the Maze Lamp Playing with Shadows
Beautifully Sculptural Concrete Museums
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Dynamic Installation Science Museums
MAD has Designed the New Hainan Science Museum
H-Shaped Structural Mountain Homes
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Dream-Adorned Mosaic Benches
Kite and Alisha B Wormsley Create a Range of Cosmologyscape Benches
Artful Wooden Pavilions
Centro de Colaboración Arquitectónia Designs the Orchid Pavilion
Paper-Inspired Artful Museums
Bjarke Ingels Group Designed the Museum for Papirkunst
Futuristic Hospital Designs
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Architecturally Inspired Chess Sets
Element Visual Studio Designs the Baku Chess Set
Black-Timber Stealthy Pavilions
Aptdotapt Designs the Drop-Stop Pavilion in the Mountains
Monochromatic Minimal Cozy Homes
DIG Architects Designs the Vaulted Monochrome Haus
Kilometer-Long Museums
Junya Ishigami Introduces the Zaishui Art Museum Along a Lake
Parking Lot-Transformed Homes
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High Concrete Walled Homes
Cesar Mancillas Creates a Linear Home with Tranquil Elements
Renovated Victorian Toronto Homes
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Gallery-Like Elevated Retail Designs
Format Architecture Office Designs the Leica Store & Gallery
Limestone-Wrapped Rural Residences
Wilkinson King Architects Designs the Field House
Swooped Museum Roof Planes
BIG Designs the Waterfront Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art
Modern Office Environments
The MOL Campus Project Was Designed by Architecture Firm Kinzo
Concrete Spiral Staircase Designs
Researchers at ETH Zurich Designs the Cadenza Staircase
Eco-Conscious Slim Skyscrapers
Muraba and RCR Arquitectes Join to Design the Muraba Veil
Garden-Topped Sunken Museums
Kengo Kuma & Associates Design the CMP Inspiration Museum
Lily-Shaped Reusable Pavilions
Studio Saar Has Designed the Srivan Pavilion Presented Last Month
Sweeping Culture Centers
Zaha Hadid Architects Presents the River Culture and Art Centre
Illuminated Cave-Like Offices
Javier Senosiain Arquitectos Designs Rugged Office in Mexico
Exploratory Architectural Projects
The Polish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale is Thought-Provoking
Lotus Plant-Inspired Skyscrapers
Aedas Designs the Pair of One Future Buildings Lined with Bronze
Trio Cuboid Music Buildings
SANAA Designs a Building for the Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building
Subterranean Courtyard Galleries
Buzz Designs the Hermit Space Yards in Beijing Park
Terraced Garden-Surrounded Homes
Arkitito Arquitetura Designed the Lechuza House in Brazil
Shed-Like Storage Facilities
Lahznimmo Architects Designs the Powerhouse Castle Hill
Geometric Cone-Shaped Mosques
Altwadum Designs the Bab Al Salam Mosque in Muscat, Oman
Lighthouse-Resembling Urban Buildings
Safdir Architecture Designs the Old Port Square in Portland
Sustainable Visitor Pavilions
NU Architectuur Atelier Designs the Green Arc in a Garden
Voyage Boat-Like Pavilions
Lina Ghotmet Architects Designs the Bahrain Pavilion
Robust Monolithic Walled Homes
H Arquitectes Completes the Casa 1736 in Barcelona
Curvaceous Artful Play Pavilions
Peter Cook Designs the Play Pavilion for the Serpentine Gallery
Architecture-Inspired Home Sculptures
Origin Made Spotlights the Spiral and Flight Sculptures
Geometric Prefabricated Pavilions
Heams & Michel Architectes Presents the 7 Kiosks Project
Serene Wooden Garden Pavilions
Byró Architekti Designs the Garden Pavilion in Prague
Temple-Inspired Sculptural Lighthouses
Gonzalo Lebrija Designs the Dynamic El Faro Lighthouse
Tea-Honoring Angular Libraries
Atelier Xi Designs the Interconnected Library and Tea Rooms
Cloister-Style Sculptural Galleries
Axel Vervoordt and Tatsuro Miki Design the Meridiano
Pyramidal Concrete Japanese Homes
IGArchitects Completed the Pyramid Hut Concrete Home
Concrete Boxes-Overlapping Homes
FujiwaraMuro Architects Designs the House in Tsurumi-ku
Climbing Wall-Integrated Apartments
Nati Minas & Studio Designs the Sleek Musa Apartment
Local Craft-Shown Bamboo Pavilions
AtArchitecture Designs the Northeast Pavilion for an Art Fair
Abstract Colorfully Vibrant Playscapes
100architects Designs the Wired Scape Playground
Alcohol-Free Members Clubs
The Maze is Bringing a New Kind of Social Space to New York City
Textured Concrete Panelled Gyms
MD41 Completes a Gymnasium Design for a School in Italy
Exposed Concrete Stealthy Homes
OFIS Aritekti Designs the Villa Eternal Way in Slovenia
Openable Wooden Shutter Homes
SJK Architects Completed the Design of the Light House
Metal-Wrapped Exhibition Spaces
Trace Architecture Office Creates a Structural Steel Wrap
Barrel-Vaulted Roof Parks
Bear Architects Designs the Zubitegi Park in Spain
Funnelled Light Forested Spas
Vector Architects Designed the Wulingshan Eye Stone Spring Spa
Architecture-Inspired Building Blocks
James Paulius Designs the Blockitecture® Frank Lloyd Wright
Textural Brick Structures
Bennetts Associates & Citizens Design Bureau Create BEAM Cultural Center
White Concrete Boxy Museums
Thomas Phifer Designs the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Artful Pyramid Installations
Agnes Denes Installs the Living Pyramid in the Coachella Valley
Wood-Wrapped Contemporary Libraries
The Graded School Library is Integrated Inside a School
Temple-Inspired Striking Galleries
Abin Design Studio Designs a Gallery with Temple Themes
Brutalist Suburban Family Houses
Pandolfini Architects Designs the South Yarra House
Angled Concrete Forest Homes
Nendo Designs the Block Wall House in a Japanese Forest
Textured Local Stone Residences
Point27 Architects Designed the Atrium House in Greece
Clover-Style Conference Center Designs
MAD Designs the ZGC International Innovation Center
Cozy Gaden Cabin Retreats
BYRÓ architekti Designs the Garden Pavilion with Wooden Detail
Monumental Concrete Hotel Suites
Malek Alqadi Designs the Folly Mojave Series in the Desert
Children-Friendly Jiu-Jitsu Academies
Kidz Designs a Jiu-Jitsu Gym Around a Wooden Amplitheater
Perforated Pink Concrete Mosques
Studio Morphogenesis Designs the Zebun Nessa Mosque
Parametric Style Video Games
Zaha Hadid Architects and Epic Games Add to Re:Imagine London
Subway-Lined Waved Panels
Ateneo Used 3D Tech to Form Sculptural Walls Around Wuyuanwan Station
Cascading Aluminum Pipe Museums
Kengo Kuma Design the Audeum Museum with an Aluminum Facade
Lake-Overlooking Tiled Pavilions
BIG Designs the Jinji Lake Pavilion Overlooking Suzhou Lake
Arched Opening Village Libraries
PK_Inception Designs the Rural Library for Round Table India
Kaleidoscope Vibrant Pavilions
Google's Mountain View Features a Halo Pavilion Artwork
External Walkway Pavilion-Style Homes
DFJ Architects Connects Wings in the Mango Lane House
Lighthouse-Functioning Concrete Structures
Lin Architecture Creates the Concrete Pavilion in China
Aegean Architecture-Inspired Home Designs
Studio Kali Designs the Arkhe Collection of Furniture
Cave-Like Folded Residences
Earthscape Studio Creates the Unique Structural Wild House
Mushroom-Shaped Village Libraries
Kong Xiangwei Studio Designs the Mushroom Library in China
Organic Striking Tower Designs
David Macullo Architects Designs the Leaves Tower
Spirally Viewpoint Bridge Designs
ZZHK Architects Designed the G Clef Bridge in China
Latticed-Steel Transport Hub Columns
Tremend Designs the Metropolitan Station in Lublin
Billowing Modular Art Installations
People's Architecture Office Designs the Curly Cube
Artfully Rotating Glass Pillars
Sebine Marcelis Created the Panorama Pillars in Atlanta
Lotus Flower-Inspired Villas
Thilina Liyanage Designs the Lotus Villa Inspired by Nature
Transformed Disused Steelwork Structures
Delugan Meissl Designs Expo Cultural Park Greenhouse
Rustic Cultural Architectural Buildings
Abin Design Studio Designed the Gallery House in Bensberia
Brutalist-Tinged Structural Residences
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Glass-Lined Towering Libraries
Snøhetta Designs the Beijing City Library Located in China
Mirrored Panel Tropical Gardens
Research Artistic Design + Architecture Designs the Frame Garden
Roman Architecture-Themed Pavilions
Pratique and Fanum Design the Forum des Vestiges Pavilion
Ribbon-Like Dynamic Structures
Zaha Hadid Presents the Capital International Exhibition Space
Romantic Seaside Pier Pavilions
GN Architects Designs the Seaside Pavilion in China
Steel Pavilion Sports Clubs
Urlo Studio Designs the Mocolí Sports Club in Ecuador
Dynamic Structural Mirror Designs
Bo Zhang Designs the Zig/Zag Collection of Colorful Decor
Optimal Energy Research Centers
Zara Hadid Architects Designs the Alisher Navoi Research Center
Stone Vaulting Glass Sculptures
AAU Anastas and Tomoko Sauvage Create the Serpentine Bell
Dynamic Military Archive Buildings
Jahn Completes the Pritzker Military Archives Center Design
Vast Wooden Structural Pavilions
Sou Fujimoto Architects Showcases Progress of the Grand Ring
Perforated Shadow-Casting Libraries
Parallel Studio Designs the Mariam's Library in Zanzibar
Boat Design-Inspired Modern Homes
Bates Masi + Architects Designs the Three Mile Harbor
Wooden Louvre Secluded Residences
Keiji Ashizawa Creates the Private House in Aoyama
Trapezoidal Coastal Beach Houses
Emergentes Architectures Sàrl Designed the Dreal House in Chile
Intricate Interlocked Wall Structures
Serie Architects Designs the New Raj Sabhagruh Building
Puzzle-Inspired Italian Nurseries
C+S Architects Develops the Noah's Ark Nursery in Alzano
Structural Energetic Playgrounds
The Archipelago Playscape is a Children's Museum Playground
Dual Level Concrete Galleries
Morphosis Designs the Crow Museum of Asian Art in Dallas
Jagget Metal Museum Entrances
David Closes Adds a Design to the Baroque Museum of Catalonia
Tree-Lined Striking Modern Residences
Palette Architecture Designs the Shift House in New York
Old Mine Tunnel-Integrated Museums
Atelier XÜK Integrates Old Mine Tunnels into a Chinese Museum
Star-Shaped Structural Pavilions
Minsuk Cho Designs the Archipelagic Void Shelter in London
Dynamic Concrete Modern Buildings
Atelier Matias Mosquera Designs the Shire Building
Monolithic Custom Residences
Laboratorio de Arquitectura Designs the Casa Catedral Project
Glazed Pavilion Landscape Stations
Mur Mur Lab Designed the Dongdan Grassland Sea Ruins Station
Obscure Olive Oil Mill-Museums
Phillippe Starck Created a Cuboid LA Almaraza Olive Oil Mill
Classically Designed Geometric Mosques
Babnimnim Design Studio Creates the Mamluki Lancet Mosque
Geometric Red-Brick Suburban Homes
OFIS Arhitekti Designs the Frame House in Ljubljana
Educational Storage Shed Designs
Invisible Studio and Mole Architects Form the Big Roof
Stone Ruin-Transformed Spanish Homes
H Arquitectes Designs the Casa 1627 in Spain
Mirrored Facade Concert Halls
SLAS Architekci Forms a Facade for Józef Świder State Music School
Cave-Style Coastal Viewpoints
3andwich Design Completes the Coastal Blue Insight Cave Space
Red Brick Geometric Mosques
Cubeinside Creates the Bait Ur Raiyan Mosque by a Riverside
Vaulted Compact Merged Homes
Studio Tololo Ugarte Designs the Tiny Vaulted Catalejo Home
Spain-Based Bright Modern Homes
Isla Architects Presents a Look at the Casa Mila
Distinctive Airlifted Structures
Arête Architects and Makers Fabrication Design the Karka Tower
Arched Garden-Topped Cultural Centers
Atelier Apeiron Creates the Hengqin Culture and Art Complex
Floating Level Aesthetic Residences
MUKA Arquitectura Designs the Oak House in Madrid
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