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This Video From The Tip Top Of The Burj Dubai Makes Me Sick
7:59AM Matt Buchanan | Hold me, I feel like puking after watching this video from the top of the Burj Dubai, the tallest man-made point on Earth. The shaking? That’s because the tower’s wobbling. Vertigo, uggghhhhh. [YouTube via Skyscraper Forums via Mahoney's Playground] More »
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Gigantic LED Funnels Will Light Up 2010 Expo And Suck Rain
3:40AM Jesus Diaz | See that enormous blue funnel in the middle of those buildings? It’s just one of the six canopies that will light up the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. As the close-ups show, the scale of these things defies belief. More »
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1:50AM Danny Allen | An international team of architects and designers has created this stunning centrepiece for London’s 2012 summer Olympics village. Dubbed The Cloud, three 122m towers would be joined by giant plastic spheres that serve as both observation decks and projection screens. More »
Spherical “Cloud” Structure Proposed For London Skyline
1:50AM Danny Allen | An international team of architects and designers has created this stunning centrepiece for London’s 2012 summer Olympics village. Dubbed The Cloud, three 122m towers would be joined by giant plastic spheres that serve as both observation decks and projection screens. More »
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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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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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Projectors Morph Boring Building Into Giant Pinball Machine
2:00AM Mark Wilson | Urban Screen, the same group behind insane 555 Kubik illusion, built a humongous, functioning pinball machine through facade projection way back in 2007. Why more architecture isn’t decorated with multi-storey video games, we do not know. 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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