Posts tagged 'Architecture'
The Trinity College Library, at the Trinity College, Dublin, is the largest library in Ireland.
The race to send the first batch of humans to the Red Planet has begun, with new players joining the fray each day.
But, “Project Nomad” has a still loftier ambition. The brainchild of three designers from Spain, it proposes to build mobile skyscrapers on Mars that will lumber across its surface, spewing greenhouse gases into its pristine atmosphere.
The idea is to terraform it for human colonization.
These structures call to mind the bulky sandcrawlers, the transport used by the Tatooine natives, the Jawas, to move around their planet scavenging technology, for sale or to trade.
A church that looks like a chicken.
Of course, the Church by the Sea, in Madeira Beach, Florida, wasn’t built to look comical. The church’s bird-like features were once used as a compass to direct sailors ashore.
A beauty salon in Osaka, Japan, that brings the lithe beauty of birch boughs, outside, inside.
