In their installation "Super Kingdom," Artists Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson of London Fieldworks created a set of (functional) birdhouses modeled after houses and palaces of dictators.
This one to the left is modeled after Nicolae Ceausescu's Palace of Parliament in Bucharest, Romania.
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/despot-the-birdie/ - via Fark