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"Tell the chef, the beer is on me."
I rolled down a hill while taking a panorama for this one
IT LOOKS LIKE A PUDDLE THAT LEADS INTO AN ALTERNATE WORLD
Noritaki Minami - 1972 (2011)
Project description:
"In the city of Tokyo, a building stands as an anachronism in relation to the surrounding urban landscape. The building in question is the Nakagin Capsule Tower designed by Kisho Kurokawa (1934 – 2007), who was one of the leading members of an influential architectural movement in the 1960s called Metabolism.
Kurokawa designed the building with plug-in capsules to promote exchangeability and modifications to the structure over time, theoretically improving its capacity to adjust to the rapidly changing conditions of the post-industrial society. When the building first opened in March of 1972, it was advertised in the media to signal ‘the dawn of the capsule age.’
The irony presented by the story of the Nakagin Capsule Tower is the fact that it became the last architecture of its kind to be completed in the world. Furthermore, the building has never undergone the process of regeneration during the forty years of existence. Not a single capsule has been replaced since 1972, even though Kurokawa intended them to sustain a lifespan of only twenty-five years.
The design in reality proved to be too rigid in adapting to the unforeseen political and economic developments in the years that followed its construction. With the building’s system in stasis without fulfilling its original mission of continual growth and renewal, it stands like a monument to a future that never arrived in the 21st Century.
Due to the pressures of the city’s real estate market, plans have been discussed for the Nakagin Capsule Tower to be demolished to make way for a conventional apartment complex. Yet, the building today has coincidentally assumed a new role in the city, becoming a poignant reminder of a path ultimately not taken.”
This reminds me of the beginning of Portal 2.
^Yes!! Exactly my first impression!
Internet portal Terra has teamed up with ad agency DDB to create something that would motivate people to actually pick up their dog’s turds.
Stay as far as you can from science, my dear.
Portal Crayons
I wish I could actually buy these.
Crayons? I love crayons. Do some of my best design work with them.
(Source: usb-dongle)
Moron core plush confirmed at Comic Con. Limited to 200 and available only at Comic Con.
I have four of the round idiots.
Gonna be giving one or two away in the near future.
*screams* godbless this person and this blog, whoever you may be.
"Tell the chef, the beer is on me."
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"I'd love to help kickstart continued development! And 0 EUR/month really does make fiscal sense too... maybe I'll even get a shirt?" (there will be limited edition shirts for two and other goodies for each supporter as soon as we sold the 200)