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Office Building Or Home To A Super Heroine?
3:25PM Rosa Golijan | Switzerland gets all the cool offices. This particular one’s dubbed “Cocoon” and acts as headquarters for an architecture firm. I prefer to imagine it as home to a super heroine who zoom-zoom-zips down that spiral and saves the day. More »
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I’ve Always Wanted To Live In A Stealth Plane
8:20AM Jesus Diaz | The Klein Bottle House. According to the World Architecture Festival Awards, it’s the best home of 2009. F-117 pilots, dorky Tron fanboys and aliens all through the galaxy would agree. I’m in one of those categories. More »
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12:40PM Rosa Golijan | I couldn’t be more envious of Google engineers working out of Switzerland. Despite the tacky wallpaper in its library, the new EMEA Engineering Hub is the most fun-looking office environment I’ve seen in a while. More »
Google’s Swiss HQ Blends A Lot Of Fun With Some Function
12:40PM Rosa Golijan | I couldn’t be more envious of Google engineers working out of Switzerland. Despite the tacky wallpaper in its library, the new EMEA Engineering Hub is the most fun-looking office environment I’ve seen in a while. More »
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10:06PM Danny Allen | Here are the best images yet of “Fluid”: the stunning whale-inspired floating pavilion being built for World Expo 2012 in Yeosu, South Korea. Designed by Australian architects, Peddle Thorp, Fluid will sail onto other Asian cities after the show. More »
Starship-Like Exhibition Space Will Set Sail In 2012
10:06PM Danny Allen | Here are the best images yet of “Fluid”: the stunning whale-inspired floating pavilion being built for World Expo 2012 in Yeosu, South Korea. Designed by Australian architects, Peddle Thorp, Fluid will sail onto other Asian cities after the show. More »
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Air Conditioning Bill Too High? Should’ve Moved Into This Building
2:50PM Rosa Golijan | Apparently the oddly arranged 600mm diameter circular windows on this building in India are not a hidden message from aliens, but a clever way to create ambiance indoors while saving up to 25 per cent on air-conditioning costs. More »
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7:25AM Brian Lam | The Living Light Sculpture looks like a giant metal flower, or a man-made approximation of a jungle canopy with artificial sunlight coming down through its branches. It’s actually a digital map sculpture reporting air quality in Seoul, Korea. More »
The Living Light Sculpture
7:25AM Brian Lam | The Living Light Sculpture looks like a giant metal flower, or a man-made approximation of a jungle canopy with artificial sunlight coming down through its branches. It’s actually a digital map sculpture reporting air quality in Seoul, Korea. More »
Random Stuff
Why The SF Bridge Broke
8:23AM Brian Lam | San Francisco’s Bay Bridge is still closed after a quick repair job fell apart. Terrifying, since my hometown is known for, you know, earthquakes, and this bridge is just falling apart even without them. Here’s a pretty good visual/text explanation of what is happening. [sci-experiments via TokyoMango]
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Some Germans Build This Outdoor Library Out Of Beer Crates
3:20PM Rosa Golijan | This particular architectural gem could only come from Deutschland. It’s an outdoor library partially constructed out of beer crates. Not surprising that they’ve been working on it since 2005 though, takes time to empty out the crates after all. More »
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4:40PM Rosa Golijan | I think they ran out of weird building designs, because the centrepiece of Dubai’s Technopark looks like it was copied from Epcot’s Spaceship Earth. Whatever happened to architecture proposals for Dubai being completely nuts? More »
Dubai’s Technosphere Would Fit Right Into A Disney Park
4:40PM Rosa Golijan | I think they ran out of weird building designs, because the centrepiece of Dubai’s Technopark looks like it was copied from Epcot’s Spaceship Earth. Whatever happened to architecture proposals for Dubai being completely nuts? More »
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