Huge Basket Building
Posted: 01 June 2008 11:12 AM     [ Ignore ]  
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This building located in Newark, Ohio, USA - owned by Longaberger Company, they specialized on baskets, has a shape of? exactly a basket. Thanks to JoeK for submitting this photo.

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Posted: 01 June 2008 11:13 AM   [ # 1 ]     [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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lol thats genious! so theyre basket company right?

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Posted: 04 June 2008 08:27 PM   [ # 2 ]     [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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That is a great idea and I have always been fascinated at different/new buildings all over the place around the world. The design and the building of it must be extremely thought out and well, I’m guessing the engineers had a blast thinking of building this basket. The safety issues and well, fire safety and other issues are something to consider when building a unique building like this one. Has it been done before? Probably not, but hey, it’s always something new to try out. I think it would be a great tourist spot to take a picture. Somee interesting thinggs I discovered about this:

Originally, Dave Longaberger wanted all of the Longaberger buildings to be shaped like baskets, but only the headquarters was completed by his death. After his death, further basket-shaped buildings were vetoed by his daughters.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Longaberger_Company

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