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"Mark's House," also known as the floating house, in the downtown Flint flat lot, 2013.

(Scott Atkinson | MLive.com)

FLINT, MI -- Flint's floating house may have left the city, but the rest of the world isn't done talking about it yet.

Buzzfeed, king of internet lists, recently published an article titled

The list included other designs that were, like the floating house, temporary installations. Others on the lists was Amazon's bubble-like headquarters in Seattle and The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilization in Marseilles.

No. 14 belonged to the design dubbed "Mark's House," also commonly known as the "floating house" built over the summer in downtown Flint through a contest hosted by the Flint Public Art Project and other architectural groups and individuals in the area. It was taken down in late October.

The Flint design has caught the eyes of the art and design community

, though the local reaction was somewhat different, divided among people who

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Part of the local criticism came from the difference between the structure with a smooth glass exterior in the concept drawings and the finished product, which had a more wrinkly surface. It's a criticism that was compounded when locals saw the same pictures featured on Buzzfeed, which had been edited to show something closer to the original concept.

Still, organizers have since said they're

and have touted articles like the one on Buzzfeed as proof that the project was a success.

Scott Atkinson is an entertainment reporter for the Flint Journal and can be reached at (810) 262-0216 or at satkins1@mlive.com. You can also follow Scott on

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