The Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower, inspired by the geometrical order of a snowflake and the aerodynamics of a Formula 1. It is designed by LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture), the first project of a series of branded towers, a new concept by PNYG:COMPANY, a company focused on branding.
The building features an iconic silhouette and a facade characterized by vertical slots with private balconies. A series of reflective fins generates a vertical dynamic and gives the building a constantly changing appearance. The fins track the sun, control the solar shading and dissolve the rationality of the plan into a continuously evolving building volume. The facade’s continuous surface enables curvature with a lot of repetition and the potential for standardization in the building process. State-of-the-art engineering and innovative materials will be used to achieve a fully sustainable performance.
The building will start at the beginning of 2009 and will complete around June 2011.
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Awesome! The Burj Dubai tower is about to be completed. David Hobcote has taken and shared his excellent quality of the Burj Dubai, the pictures were taken from a bell helicopter with a canon 1Ds mark 3 digital camera. The under construction building which previously measures 512.m (1,680ft) tall has already beats the record of the 508m high Taipei 101 in Taiwan. At present, the Burj Dubai has reached the 16th steel level, it is now 688.1 meters tall.
Burj Dubai Skyscraper
• Height: ~ 800m – 950m
• Floors: ~ 160 – 189
• Construction start date: 2005, February 1
• Completion date: 2009, August 16
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If you think that the school bus you are sitting on is too stuffy too packed, well, I guess they suffered more than you. Yes, this yellow school bus tricycle is to transport students to school, found in New Delhi.
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This is how you have fun with customers, making customers happy. Check this out, Ayden the ice cream man was playing around with the tourists with his ice cream in Istanbul. Video after the break. Read more…
Volunteers have created this 3.2 x 2.1 meter (10 x 7 ft) large pixel art of the Japanese manga character Astro Boy for the opening of Tokyo’s new Fukutoshin subway line. The whole thing is made of 138,000 recycled Tokyo Metro tickets.
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Good news to all of you that is going to visit Las Vegas, Microsoft’s Surface Table has hit the i-Bar inside the Rio, Las Vegas. The unfortunately is that most of the bars there, you will need to be 21 or older to enter. LOL. I just got my key this year. Video after the break. Read more…
Do you lose appetite when looking at those head? They don’t eat you, but you eat them! In Ratchaburi, Thailand, a Thai artist Kittiwat Unarrom sells edible sculptures of dismembered human body parts made from bread. Yeah they taste just like normal bread. I just lose my appetite…Ugh! Those human’s head and body parts were packaged like food and they are up for sale.
“When people see the bread, they don’t want to eat it. But when they taste it, it’s just normal bread. The lesson is ‘don’t judge just by outer appearances.”
Those body parts really looks real, I was wondering if someone just dumb a real one there and that will be scary. They forgot to make some parts of the body, lol. Alright, Sawadeeka! Check out the video after the breakahh. Read more…
It’s located at my country, at Langkawi, Malaysia. It is called the “Sky Bridge”, a cable-stayed bridge supported by only one support column, suspended at 700 meters above sea level. This unique curved pedestrian bridge spans 125 meters across a spectacular chasm. While the view from the bridge is simply breathtaking, you’d be able to view the Andaman Sea and Thailand’s Tarutao Island as well. The bridge was completed in October 2004, the structure relies on an 87 meter high support column to hold the weight of the deck, this weight distributed through 8 load balancing cables attached to its head. Maybe I should visit one day. Video after the break. Read more…
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Disney’s Hollywood Studios was claimed as the second tallest attraction at the Walt Disney World Resort, shorter only than “Expedition Everest ~ the tallest of the artificial mountains at Walt Disney World Resort at 199.5 feet. Tower of Terror is 199 feet high at Walt Disney World because of the FAA regulations which required the fix of red light beacon at the top of any 200-foot or taller buildings. Video after the break. Read more…
The Palm Jumeirah is an artificial island created using land reclamation by Nakheel, a company owned by the Dubai government. The island is shaped like a palm tree, made of 94 million cubic metres of sand and 7 million tons of rock. It consists of a trunk, a crown with 17 fronds, and a surrounding crescent island that forms an 11 kilometre-long breakwater. The island is 5 kilometres by 5 kilometres and its total area is larger than 800 football pitches. The 17 fronds are home to many residents who will enjoy unique beachfront living in astonishing surroundings with stunning water views, and access to the Sub-sea Tunnel and Monorail. If you are rich, you can think of getting one of those there. Continue reading for more images. Read more…
