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Lifestyle
Jonathan Glancey

Six funny buildings

Funny buildings: The Longaberger building in Newark, Ohio
The Basket Building
The Longaberger Company, based in the Ohio town of Newark in the US, makes traditional woven baskets. So there was only one thing their new HQ could look like
Photograph: Kiichiro Sato/AP
Funny buildings: Crooked House (Krzywy Domek), Sopot, Poland
The Crooked House
This house in Sopot, a seaside town in Poland, opened in 2004, and is now said to be the most photographed building in the country
Photograph: Alamy
Funny buildings: Luxor Casino in Las Vegas
Luxor Hotel and Casino
This 350ft-high pyramid in Las ­Vegas was built by an army of 1,000
Photograph: B.S.P.I./CORBIS
Funny buildings: Inntel Hotels Amsterdam Zaandam, Netherlands by WAM
Hotel Inntel, Zaandam Netherlands
Part of a new development of traditional streets lined with neo-traditional buildings, the hotel cost €15m (£13.4m) to build. Read more
Photograph: Roel Backaert
Funny buildings: The House in the Clouds, Thorpeness
House in the Clouds
Built as a water tower for the ­Thorpeness holiday village in ­Suffolk in the 1920s, this now serves as a highly unusual holiday home
Photograph: Eamonn McCabe
Funny buildings: Wonderworks International Drive, Orlando, Florida
WonderWorks It’s as if a passing giant toppled this 19th-century neoclassical US courthouse over. The detailing on this gateway to the WonderWorks theme park, in the town of Pigeon Forge in Tennessee, is immensely enjoyable, right down to the inverted streetlamps and palm trees
Photograph: Design Pics Inc/Rex Features
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