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South Jersey Real Estate has quite a long list of unusual house designs, some of which are shown below.

Located in Darmstadt and built between 1998 and 2000 by Friedensreich Hundertwasser, the famous Austrian architect and painter, widely renowned for his revolutionary, colourful architectural designs which incorporate irregular, organic forms, e.g. onion-shaped domes. The Hundertwasser house “Waldspirale” contains 105 apartments and wraps around a landscaped courtyard with a running stream. The turret at the southeast corner holds a restaurant, including a cocktail bar. Natural features of the landscape around the building are expressed in it: the layers of sedimentary rock found underneath the site are reflected on the facade in bands of ceramic tiles and coloured stucco. The roof above the 12 floors is formed by a garden of beech, maple, and lime trees.

What better example between European sophistication (the Hundertwasser building) and American crassness: the basket building. Located in Newark, Ohio the Basket Building is the home office of The Longaberger Basket Company. Founder Dave Longaberger decided he wanted the corporate home office in a giant basket. History of the Basket Building.

Located in Tourettes-sur-Loup, France, and was designed by the Hungarian architect Antti Lovag. At 35 years old, it has already been listed by the French ministry of culture as an historic monument.

Located in Sopot, Poland at Bohaterów Monte Cassino Street the Crooked House was constructed in 2003 based off of drawings from Jan Marcin Szancer and Per Dahlberg. Additional Photos and construction details from maps.pomocnik.com.

Office building located in Prague, Czech Republic and designed by architects Vlado Miluni? and Frank Gehry. Because the building somewhat resembles a pair of dancers it was orginially named Fred and Ginger, after Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Later it was nicknamed the Dancing House.

This unique piano house was built recently in An Hui Province, China. Inside of the violin is the escalator to the building. The building displays various city plans and development prospects in an effort to draw interest into the recently developed area.

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