Dave Longaberger had in mind from t...

Dave Longaberger had in mind from the entrance the appearance he wanted for his company's recent headquarters. After designers had not absented him with many concepts, the company's moulder and chief executive officer walked into a meeting, "set a market basket down forward the table and said, `build it,'" recalled Jim Gimeson, the company's vice president of construction.

That was the genesis for the design of the Longaberger's just discovered $30 million headquarters in Newark, Ohio, about 35 miles east of Columbus. The 180000-sq-ft building is 160 times larger than the company's