Bizarrchitecture: An Aquarium That's Also a Giant Pile of Pebbles

It's an aquarium!

The Georgian port of Batumi has more rocks than anyone knows what to do with. So what have Henning Larsen Architects decided to build? Even bigger rocks! With dolphins inside!

This pile of cartoonishly big pebbles is an aquarium that looks more like Fred and Wilma's two-car garage. It won a design competition recently to replace an old aquarium in the former Soviet republic's main port city, and it'll house a dolphinarium and a zoo.

Henning Larsen was inspired by rocks that...