Amazing Building

Love this building, from afar the pixel look is fun but the wow, for me, happens when you get close and can really read the art. Nice juxtaposition of having to "zoom" in on the pixels to get the beauty. Frog Queen, or the Prisma Engineering Headquarters designed by SPLITTERWERK, Austria.

Art + Architecture

The world just became a little cooler. French company called Easy Web. Call them. Make something cool. Go now.

Floating Cities

These look cool enough for me to consider living a life at sea. And with population explosion, they may be the last possible place to move. besides, they are self sustaining.

Biomimicry was clearly the inspiration behind the design. The Lilypad, which was designed to look like a waterlily, is intended to be a zero emission city afloat in the ocean. Through a number of technologies (solar, wind, tidal, biomass), it is envisioned that the project would be able to not only produce it’s own energy, but be able to process CO2 in the atmosphere and absorb it into its titanium dioxide skin.

New Ideas in Farming

With so many building striving to be the tallest, for no real reason other than to brag, this idea seems to be one that has a purpose. Instead of building farmland outward, build it upward. Self sustaining buildings with vertical farming.

Vertical Farming, which has been discussed for years, would involve building high rise multi level “Farmscrapers” where farmers would employ sustainable farming practices in a controlled environment. Dickson Despommier, professor of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia, and one of the true pioneers of this idea, thinks this could ultimately ease the world’s food, water, and energy crises. Despommier argues that the technology to build vertical farms currently exists and that it could be an economical and sustainable solution to a number of problems.

Play the Building

David Byrne from Talking Heads has created a building (well, not the building) that you can play. This comes from Boing Boing TV (which is also worth looking up). Nice installment art, and is what I believe to be an original idea, they do still exist. Apology: it is a bit long and you have to sit through a few Verizon ads, but it is the Michael Bay ad, which I find entertaining anyway.

Notre Dame's Lantern Archetectural Slides

Just found this post on eternallycool.net, Notre Dame is relaeasing it's lantern Archetectural slides on flicker under a creative common license. As you can see, it would be very easyto jut hang out there and dig for a while.

We're #2

If you're familiar with oobject, they regularly have the top ten lists of "everything." If you head over to the top ten most beautiful airports in the world, you will see DIA is ranked number duo. Pretty great considering airports all over the world were considered.

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