Casa Batllo is a building in the center of Barcelona designed by Antoni Gaudí, and is considered one of his masterpieces. It's style can only be identified as Modernist or Art Nouveau in the broadest sense. With very few straight lines, and with much of the façade decorated with a colorful mosaic made of broken ceramic tiles he is definitely a designer who took his own path

Cayan Tower, known as Infinity Tower is a 306-metre-tall (1,004 ft), 75-story skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill SOM architectural group. This is the same group who did the concept design for the Burj Khalifa, also in Dubai, and Trump Tower in Chicago. The 90 degree twist was achieved by rotating each floor 1.2 degrees around a cylindrical elevator and service core. The only one of it's kind.

Another amazing Gaudi building in Barcelona, La Sagrada Familia is a large Roman Catholic minor basilica. And although the building was never completed, La Sagrada Familia has received distinction mostly because of its unique architecture and Gaudí's ability to create something so innovative and artistic.

The Norwegian Wild Reindeer Centre Pavilion is located at Hjerkinn on the outskirts of Dovrefjell National Park and was designed by Oslo-based architecture studio Snøhetta. The building design is based on a contrast between ideas – a rigid outer shell and a soft, organic inner core. At almost 4000 feet above sea level, this structure provides visitors with panoramic vistas of the prominent mountain range in a truly unique building.

The Longaberger Company is an American manufacturer and distributor of handcrafted maple wood baskets and other home and lifestyle products. This 'Mimetic' architecture, also known as 'novelty' or 'programmatic' architecture, is a style of building design popularised in the United States in the first-half of the 20th century. It is characterised by unusual building designs that mimic the purpose or function of the building, or the product.

The Beijing National Stadium commonly referred to as the Birdcage was designed by a Swiss Architect, Herzog de Meuron, and a Chinese Architect, Li Xinggang. The design came from the idea of a single thread wrapped around a ball. Layers of logical geometry give the appearance of randomness and an organic shape. Multiple pentagrams in the interlocking fabric of the elliptical structure are like the stars of the Chinese flag. This would be a stylized form of mimetic architecture.