steve barrett

This one is definitely worth a look. This isn’t computer graphics, its as real as it gets. Apparently its an exhibit at BMW’s museum in Munich. As you can imagine, its obviously computer controlled, most likely hundreds of motors reeling up string that suspends these balls in space. With some advanced animation and programming you can see how cool of an effect it creates.

The BMW Museum itself is a work of art. Created in the shape of a BMW logo there’s no doubt what you’re looking at is a BMW facility.

Take notes please, this is not how you use an ATM machine.

Looks like this guy might be in some trouble, that thing came down hard.

I’m all for green energy. I especially love the new wave of smart engineering behind it. Windmills have been around for years - in fact, windmills have been around for thousands of years, and that’s part of what’s so surprising about this video. According to the description of this video the braking mechanism that slows the windmill to tolerable speeds in high winds failed. This allowed the windmill to build up some incredible speed and eventually the whole thing gave out.

Quite impressive.

NASA’s old service tower building, which wheels right up to rockets while on the launch pad, has had a good life, but now its time to embrace change at NASA and make room for improvements. Out with the old and in with the new.

It’s a shame it didn’t melt into a pile of rubble like we’re used to seeing with these sort of implosions but this service tower isn’t your average low-income housing building.

The current record holder of the tallest building on Earth is still being built.

So that’s what that plate they pass around is for…

UK builders have proposed this 5,000 ft tower set to house nearly a MILLION people in downtown London. The tower wouldn’t be complete until 2016 but should have room for 100,000 people each year until finished. The tower will have all sorts of accommodations including business space, gardens, parks, theatres, tennis courts and all sorts of other stuff.

I’d love to see proposals for some out-of-the-box architecture like this here in America. Perhaps maybe something a little less ugly though.

via populararchitecure

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