'The Cloud' - Futuristic architecture to prospectively sit atop London skyline | TECH / ARCHITECTURE

Totally wowed by the prospect of London's The Cloud, an addition to the city's skyline to be used as a centerpiece for the 2010 Summer Olympics. The 400 ft towers would be connected by gigantic plastic bubbles..

The Cloud has been shortlisted in the competition set-up by London's Mayor, and has been called "a sculptural spectacle, and a celebration of technology" by the senior curator of
architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The designers intend to build The Cloud using micro-donations from millions of people. One of the architects, who's from MIT, told the BBC: "We can build our Cloud with £5m or £50m. The flexibility of the structural system will allow us to tune the size of the Cloud to the level of funding that is reached."
[via Gizmodo]

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