The Astronomical Clock in Prague’s Old Square displays not only time but sunrise, sunset, zodiac, mean revolutions of the moon and a whole bunch of other crazy stuff. It recently celebrated its 600th birthday with this incredible projected light show.
Nokia couldn’t sustain retail stores for long, but seemingly HTC hasn’t faced the same problem just yet – did anyone know they had stores open in Russia and the Czech Republic?
Combining the tradition of building towers in clusters with the coldly rational American skyscraper, apparently you wind up with a tower that has been cut, twirled and splayed apart, resulting in a giant undulating W that’s a single, continuous building masquerading as four wavy towers. That’s the theory behind Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group‘s latest project in Prague, Walter Towers, anyway. It kinda makes me seasick thinking about it, but you can get a better idea of how this monument to the most regal letter of the alphabet works in the pictures below.
