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Well it is an interesting way to show what your company is about.

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Things like this have been going on for decades. Some charming, some not so much. The wiki article below even uses the building you've pointed out as an example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_architecture

A couple of my favorites were the Tail 'O The Pup hot dog stand in LA (now gone, but rumored to be retuning). Randy's Donuts in LA (featured in Iron Man 2 and a TON of other films).

There is also an awesome example in the movie "The Rocketeer" with the dog-shaped diner.

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Things like this have been going on for decades. Some charming, some not so much. The wiki article below even uses the building you've pointed out as an example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_architecture

A couple of my favorites were the Tail 'O The Pup hot dog stand in LA (now gone, but rumored to be retuning). Randy's Donuts in LA (featured in Iron Man 2 and a TON of other films).

There is also an awesome example in the movie "The Rocketeer" with the dog-shaped diner.

Hey they had the Tea Pot in there too... in south central WA.... Been there.

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Spent a night in Holbrook, AZ this spring just to sleep in one of these icons on Route 66.

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The design brief for a million sq foot office building I worked on last year was 'whimsical'...

God know what that would have ended up looking like.

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The design brief for a million sq foot office building I worked on last year was 'whimsical'...

God know what that would have ended up looking like.

Probably some Frank Gehry cartoon melted box piece of crap.

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***The design brief for a million sq foot office building I worked on last year was 'whimsical'...

God know what that would have ended up looking like.

Probably some Frank Gehry cartoon melted box piece of crap.

I was thinking the EMP up here kinda looks like some alien pile of poo.

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I was thinking the EMP up here kinda looks like some alien pile of poo.

Been there, seen that.

Buildings should be about the local environment and intended purpose, not about who makes them.

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***I was thinking the EMP up here kinda looks like some alien pile of poo.

Been there, seen that.

Buildings should be about the local environment and intended purpose, not about who makes them.

EMP is just.... fugly

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EMP is just.... fugly

It's brilliant compared to some of his other work. Not that that's saying much.

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That project was just bizzare.

I asked some mates what a 'whimsical' building would look like and got everything from shoes to blobs.

My favourite was a building which had clockwork conference rooms on the outside which crawled around the outside of the building at random. You could book a room, but you'd never know where it was going to be and could see all the mechanism on the outside of the building. I still think that's a brilliant idea.

The project eventually got canned because the the head honcho didn't like the designs the architect was coming up with (after 18 months of trying), but still couldn't explain what he really wanted except 'Whimsical...'