Some of these may have been featured here before, but there are many more to share here. Cool, strange, quirky designs of buildings from all around the world.

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Sometimes life just seems unfair. You cannot even begin to imagine the amount of wealth the people in Dubai have. They have got so much money that they probably have run out of things to buy. Here are some ways they have tried to spurge their mind-boggling wealth.

0-14 Tower

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The Basket Building (United States)
Built by Dave Longaberger, founder of The Longaberger Company, this radical office building was once considered a joke when he started on it. When he announced his plans to make his office a gigantic basket, most thought that it was another one of his jokes, since he was known to be notorious practical joker. However, he stuck to his dream believing that this idea will help market his company and make others sit up and take notice and it sure did! The Basket Building opened its doors for the 1st time on 17 December, 1997.

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Junya Ishigami designed this workshop at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology just outside Tokyo. This is a building designed by the architect to almost disappear if you don’t look carefully. Ishigami explains the rationale behind his design, which left me scratching my head but nevertheless:

I wanted to make a space with very ambiguous borderlines, which has a fluctuation between local spaces and the overall space, rather than a universal space like that of Mies” says Ishigami. “This allows a new flexibility to emerge, revealing reality rather than shaping it.

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One of the most famous architects of the 20th century, and a man who considered the buyers of his house more like caretakers than actual owners, Frank Lloyd Wright designed some truly unique buildings.

Falling Water

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