That philosophy, of course, gave birth to eccentric buildings designed to sell what they looked like.

The church is a highly mannered, somewhat eccentric building.

The nearby Historical Library and Museum is an eccentric octagonal building with a sort of floating cupola.

"Hôtel les pieds dans l'eau" (a hotel with its feet in the water), is how this eccentric, turreted building on the Somme Estuary describes itself.

Ahead three more islands had appeared, rising sharply from the sea, each with its wall and core of eccentric black buildings.

Five huge towers are being added to the eccentric building, which is among Spain's most-visited tourist attractions.

In recent years, a large number of architecturally distinctive and even eccentric buildings have sprung up throughout Shanghai.

People have called this building unique, eccentric or plain crazy," she said, pointing to the lone surviving fragment of the murals of tropical scenes commissioned by Pratt.

Like any big rambling eccentric old building, it had good offices and bad ones.

Another of his studios was a unique and eccentric little building known as the "Peggotty."