The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland)
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Construction of the building started in in January 2003 and in December 2003 it was finished. House architecture is based on Jan Marcin Szancer (famous Polish artist and child books illustrator) and Per Dahlberg (Swedish painter living in Sopot) pictures and paintings.
The Basket Building (Ohio, United States)
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The Longaberger Basket Company building in Newark, Ohio might just be a strangest office building in the world. The 180,000-square-foot building, a replica of the company’s famous market basket, cost $30 million and took two years to complete. Many experts tried to persuade Dave Longaberger to alter his plans, but he wanted an exact replica of the real thing.
Ferdinand Cheval Palace a.k.a Ideal Palace (France)
Shoe House (Pennsylvania, United States)![](//2.bp.blogspot.com/_k6X2Exmo3zM/SzRtuU6evbI/AAAAAAAAAHw/LtCvGEIaUM4/s320/19-shoehouse-thumb.jpg)
Cubic Houses (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
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The original idea of these cubic houses came about in the 1970s. Piet Blom has developed a couple of these cubic houses that were built in Helmond.
The city of Rotterdam asked him to design housing on top of a pedestrian bridge and he decided to use the cubic houses idea. The concept behind these houses is that he tries to create a forest by each cube representing an abstract tree; therefore the whole village becomes a forest.