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Paul Williams, Pereira & Luckman, and Robert Herrick Carter all contributed to the space age design of what is known as the Theme Building at the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in California. In 1992, Los Angeles named it a City Cultural and Historical Monument-or is it just a silly building built at the dawn of the Space Age? The 1961 Theme Building, Los Angeles International Airport LAX Theme Building was designed in part by Paul R. The Smith Mansion Preservation Project has tried to preserve the oddity as a tourist destination-and a museum of the passionate builder. The plan was in his head, and it may have changed daily. The mansion, Smith's life's work, is a manifestation of those ideas-skipping the step of sketching it all out first. But, like Gehry, Smith had a dream and ideas filled his head. Smith never became as recognized as architect Frank Gehry, who famously remodeled his own Santa Monica house with found supplies. The structure stands over 75 feet tall in the center of the valley. Some of the logs are reclaimed from local structural fires, giving it that charred look.

The mansion could be called Modern Arts & Crafts, as it looks like modern art but it is built primarily with found building materials put together with hand tools and non-mechanical pulley systems. All the timbers used in its construction were hand-picked from Rattlesnake Mountain, in Cody. He spent nearly two decades building his family a house, without blueprints but with a passion that directed his ideas. Obsessed engineer and builder Francis Lee Smith began construction in 1973 and never stopped improvising until he fell off the roof to his death in 1992.

It cannot be missed as it sits off the Buffalo Bill Cody Scenic Byway near the East Gate of Yellowstone National Park. Here is the Smith Mansion located in Wapiti Valley, Wyoming. Paul Hermans/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped) "Longaberger moving from Big Basket building." The Columbus Dispatch, 26 Feb.

The History of The Longaberger Company at and Longaberger Homestead at.

Longaberger Home Office Building at EMPORIS.

Home Office Facts and Figures, Longaberger Corporate website at.

What architectural style is it? This type of novelty, postmodern architecture is often called mimetic architecture. As baskets go, it's quite large-192 feet by 126 feet at the bottom and 208 feet by 142 feet at the top. The roof height of 102 feet is augmented by an architectural height of 196 feet-the 300,000 pound handles above the roof are heated to avoid ice build-up. Located at 1500 East Main Street, Newark, Ohio, the 180,000 square foot Basket Building was designed by the people at the Longaberger Company and then constructed by NBBJ and Korda Nemeth Engineering between 19. Extending from the ground floor to the roof, this atrium mimics the park-like atmosphere of picnic-goers as skylights provide natural light to the large interior space. The exterior mimics a picnic basket, and the interior offices center around a 30,000 square feet open area. The theme of a picnic flows throughout the architecture. The design is right on target, but this picnic basket building is 160 times larger than Longaberger's trademark Medium Market Basket. The architectural result? It may look like a wooden basket, but it's really a 7 story steel building. The Longaberger Company, an Ohio-based manufacturer of handcrafted baskets, wanted to build a corporate headquarters that reflected one of its most popular products. Niagara66/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0

Basket Building Built for Longaberger Company Headquarter.