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- Jektal, on 01/12/2009, -4/+14Slideshow? Bury.
- inactive, on 01/12/2009, -0/+6Redraw, redraw, redraw, redraw.
Dugg though for not being a Dubai fest. - divinediva, on 01/12/2009, -1/+6ROM Crystal one of the seven new wonders of architecture world.
- esc27, on 01/12/2009, -0/+42008 must have been a terrible year for architecture. Boxy designs with semi-random window placement isn't really that interesting.
- jhails, on 01/12/2009, -1/+5Buried for slide show ***** and ugly uninspiring architecture.
- blur13, on 01/12/2009, -0/+4interesting how renzo piano seems to be somewhat repeating the same design/concept from the "california academy of sciences" for his recently unveiled addition to the kimbell art museum in fort worth.
- meekrob, on 01/12/2009, -0/+3Nice! I love that house in Phoenix, gj Matthew Trzebiatowski.
- method7670, on 01/12/2009, -0/+3The home in spain is just gorgeous.
- superman46n2, on 01/12/2009, -1/+4Everyone at Penn who has ever been inside Skirkanich Hall would agree that it is a ugly POS from the inside out. Most of those other square looking buildings seemed pretty lame as well.
- wassim2k, on 01/12/2009, -1/+4Quick! Name the most annoying way to start an article! Stuck?
- yarayara, on 01/12/2009, -0/+3I think I've seen better than that in digg.
Wonders?
I expected so much better things. - dirtybully81, on 01/12/2009, -1/+4I don't usually care if a site has a slideshow, but not only was there a slideshow but a damn timer that forced me to limit my time looking and reading. So I had to click twice for each picture, once to pause and once to move forward. Buried.
- Amavel, on 01/12/2009, -0/+2..I wasn't aware it existed either.. I'm sure most people didn't know.
But then again.. I also live under a rock. - PizzaEagle, on 01/12/2009, -0/+2The Phoenix house is beautiful, would love to live in that. That said, i think the Modernist school is a bit overrepresented in the slideshow, they should have found some other types too.
- inactive, on 01/12/2009, -1/+3Really nice slideshow. I wish I owned one of those.
- bloominoctober, on 01/12/2009, -0/+2I'm really interested in seeing the WWI museum in Kansas City now. I wasn't even aware it existed (yes, I live under a rock).
- mmeiser, on 01/12/2009, -0/+2F*ck fast company and their automatic refresh b.s. Here I'm wondering why ffox is running like sh*t. It's because fast company is just reloading their page full of tons of junk ads and html over and over and over.
If they really wanted to do a slide show... a) the whole page shouldn't reload, b) it should start paused with a play button, c) it'd be more then 240x320 or whatever thumbnail size they're using, d) they should cut down on page cruft in general... there's way to much javascript, ads, navigation and 80 other types of b.s. non-content.
I avoid sites like this like the plague. - monsterette, on 01/12/2009, -0/+2...fabulous...
- edward301, on 01/12/2009, -1/+2Boxes of various shapes + matching window + ??????// = Architectural Wonder
- Izzmo, on 01/12/2009, -1/+2I'm from Kansas City, can't believe I've never been to the WWI museum! Looks amazing though, and it's #1!
- marioara, on 01/12/2009, -1/+2interesting that is all I can say
- alf86, on 01/14/2009, -0/+1a simple click of the "digg" button would have been sufficient.
- Abomonog, on 01/13/2009, -0/+1Buried for failing (except in the case of the Cumulus Building) to show any piece of architecture that that even nearly qualifies as a wonder.
Think modern version of Hanging Gardens or possibly another Great Wall. The closest thing we got is the Dubai Tower and since that doesn't even come close to the theoretical upper limit a tower can reach (1.6 miles before earths rotation pulls it over unless that figure has been changed since my 11th grade physics class) it's not even close to a wonder. Nifty architecture does not qualify as a wonder. Think of it this way. The Great Pyramids were a wonder because the Egyptians had no modern machinery and yet still lifted blocks of stone weighing in at 10 or more tons over 400 feet up. Today to duplicate the feat at proper scale vs. technology we would have to build a pyramid with a base the size of Manhattan, the tip rising 2 and a half miles into the air, (not a tower) and it being constructed of stone blocks nearly a hundred feet square and weighing in at thousands of tons. As it is now an outside observer would agree that we are more technologically advanced than the ancient Egyptians but I think he would say that they were more capable at architecture. They have structures that took us over 100 years to figure out how they were built. Today we can't even build a building that will last 100 years, or we won't.
That's a large part of our problem today. We have no wonders and are not even trying to create one that is tangible. We have nothing that people 200 generations down the line are going to see and admire. Not a single brick. - lattin1, on 01/12/2009, -5/+3Thats just plain sad. I wouldn't call a single one of those designs original.
- pitbulia, on 01/28/2009, -1/+0California Academy of Study is real Green Peace architecture! and sure wanna visit all of them . Thanks ! So many beautiful things maid by people and for people!
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