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The best part is that they look like waffles, or am I just hungry?

That's some pretty cool looking architecture there.

Was anyone else reminded of space invaders?
or early sci-fi space ships?

Pirates Get Half off rent

wow that's just amazing. Love the organic shape.

Really starting to think we are entering a architectural boom era. After the terrible design of the 70s and 80s, and the rather bland work done in the 90s, we are finally getting some interesting stuff out there. Not to say nothing good ever came out of the eras, but there was an unfortunately large amount of bad. I can only hope that this project will go through.

Reminds me of the Sydney Opera House
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That's my home country right there... go Malaysia!

they look like the boobs cities from the new south park episode.

a fleet of sailboats, very cool

I was in PJ in January. buildings in Putrajaya are already disintegrating - cracks in foundations in buildings and bridges, and walls. The Muslim Malay ruling powers have stacked the deck in their favor, and this has allowed for building contracts to be awarded to Muslim Malays only - 'Bumi Putras' as they are known. These contracts are given out to Bumi Putras whether they are competent or not, and where there are disintegrating buildings, we can say they were not competent builders. The ruling powers are busy spending everybody's money on these monumental projects. Behind these beautiful buildings is a corrupt institution, that oppresses dissent with secret police, and practices social and economic apartheid on non Malay-Muslim groups, such as Indians, Chinese, and others. The ruling powers are busy rewriting Malaysian history and planning for a future as an islamic republic.

a fleet of retarded ships maybe

"The architect’s goal was to design buildings that tell “of its place of origin which is culturally modern, Islamic and tropical in nature.”"

Why am I having trouble putting "Islamic" and "tropical" together?

Are the Giants coming to try and steal the Auryn yet?

Beautiful design. I love the light streaming in through the sides of the building in the conceptual pic at the end.

All comments regarding "beautiful light shining through" please remember that these are 3D renderings and the entire effect will be totally lost the second anyone moves in with furniture or drapes. Otherwise, hell yeah, they do look very cool, but you'll never see the effect.

"Where do you live?"

"Over by the lake, it looks like a bunch of giant portable heaters. You can't miss it."

seriously looks like a nod to renzo piano.

@pbgswd - Good comment and observation. One thing to be corrected is that the opression is towards everyone - inc. the Bumis. It protects the aristocrats.

digg for being malaysian

The structure is nice.I should now take my hat off the village/kampong like Malaysia

cool.
wait till u see Penang!

It's funny when someone points out that the country featured in the article as a country that practices social and economic apartheid on non Malay-Muslim groups since the so-called Non MALAY-Muslim group is the one holding the country's economy and are at the top of the social status of the said country. They are way richer than the average Malay-muslim in that country (just look at the list of rich people there - most of them are chinese and Indian). Being a non-Malaysian myself, and work in the construction business (I was stationed by my base company in my homeland to that country for 6 years), I've seen it happening at my construction site in Putrajaya. sure, the Malay-muslim companies gets the contract, but since they mostly don't have the source of materials and manpower, (which are TIGHTLY controlled by the chinese and indian supplier and contractor companies), and they also can't get the good materials at a competitive price, they had to sub the contract to the chinese and indian companies while they stay on as project management. Seeing the opportunity, the NON-malay companies skimp on quality materials and take short-cuts to get the most profit and as a result, you can see shoddy jobs everywhere (thats where you get complaints like "buildings in Putrajaya are already disintegrating"). Those malay companies are left holding the bag and had to take the responsibilities. That's the truth that is happening there that not a lot of people see. They only see that the malay companies get the contract and blame the system and the race without seeing the whole picture. Opportunists and small minded people are so alike everywhere.