The Electric New Paper:

When the CEO of the family-owned business making baskets decided to
build a corporate headquarters, he knew he wanted something unique but
had trouble describing it to the architects he had summoned to his
office.

Then Mr Dave Longaberger spotted the basket. He grabbed one of the
company’s products, pulled up its handles and said, ‘This is what I
want. Build it.’

The job was no picnic for engineers, who completed the building in 1998.

Like a real Longaberger basket, the building gets wider as it goes up, so each floor had to be designed differently.