Basket Shape Buuilding - Building Show The Work They Are Doing

The owner of the world's Biggest Basket shape building Dave Longaberger who founded the company, choose a simple business to do the hand-woven gift basket., was the business visionary was a visionary and realized the huge opportunity to make picnic baskets and shopping baskets. And his ideas brought him fortune. who not only tapped into the demand for hand-woven party baskets, So, as a thank to the apparently innocent and unimportant item, he decided to move his company headquarters into this unusually shaped building from the world's largest replica of one. It is truly impressive example of Mimetic Architecture, grandest monument to the highest pinnacle of achievement by an advanced consumer culture.

The basket is a replica -- 160 times larger -- of Longaberger's Medium Market Basket. It's 192 ft. long by 126 ft. wide at the bottom, spreading to 208-ft. long by 142-ft. wide at the roof line.  The US $30 million steel-stucco structure & a 180,000-ft 2 replica of one of the company's trademark handwoven baskets & rises more than seven stories and is crowned by two massive handles.

The design is perfect and accurate and all the details are preserved. For example the building has
two handles attached, just like any normal picnic basket. It is an accurate replica of a normal shopping basket and is now one of 
the main touristic attractions of the town. These handles  are constantly heated during the winter months so as to avoid ice and 
snow deposits on them. 

I.Building Statistics

• Property Size: 25 acres
• Building Capacity: 500 employees
• Building Footage: 180,000 square feet
• Total Wt. of Building: 8,000-9,000 tons
• Total Wt. of Handles: Approximately 150 tons
• Number of Windows: 84
• Concrete: 7,640 cubic yards of concrete
  
• Cost of Project: Approximately US $30 million;

II. Building Location

• The corporate office is situated conveniently to both Columbus and Dresden, providing easy access to the Columbus airport and offers an additional employee resource pool.
• Situated between Marne and Dayton Road in Newark on State Route 16 Approximately 29 miles west of Dresden; 35 miles east of Columbus

III. Dimensions of Building

• Seven stories
• 192 feet long, 126 feet wide at grade, widening to 208 feet x 142 feet at the roof The building is 160 times larger than the Medium Market Basket.

IV. Points of Interest

• The Longaberger Co. managed the entire project, and over 50% of the building was constructed by Longaberger personnel.
• The building was completed in December 1997.
• Move-in for employees took place in December of 1997.
• The company designed the exterior and interior of the building.
• NBBJ and Korda/Nemeth Engineering administered the design process.
• The addition of the facility in the Newark area will add 500 jobs in addition to generating additional tax revenue benefiting the Licking County school system, local organizations and the community as a whole.
• The building was awarded the 1997 Build Ohio Award.

V. Outstanding Features

• Offices are situated around a seven-story, 30,000-ft2 atrium where employees and guests can enjoy the natural daylight from the skylight.
• Two basket handles are attached to the building with replica copper and wooden rivets and are heated to prevent ice from forming.
• Landscaping design and installation was coordinated by Bassatt and Associates with an exclusive design that will be fully irrigated.
• A 142-seat, theater-style auditorium is on the first floor.
• Two Longaberger 725-lb, 23-carat, gold-plated tags are attached to both sides of the building. The tags are 25 feet by seven feet by three feet. Brass tags are placed on Longaberger Feature baskets, such as the Christmas Collection.

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