Lucy (Official Movie Trailer) / Luc Besson (featuring Scarlett Johansson)
It seems the movie does rely on the pseudoscientific claim that human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Otherwise, though, Lucy looks wonderfully insane as Johansson goes from a drug mule at the mercy of her captors to a superhuman with remarkable control over her body and a diminishing capacity for mercy. Plus, we get […]
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Keelung Harbor Service Building / Neil M. Denari Architects (NMDA)
Neil M. Denari Architects has been announced as winner of a two-stage, international competition for the new Keelung Harbor Service Building in Taiwan’s major port city, Keelung. The Los Angeles based practice’s complex, metal-clad terminal was selected over four other competitive schemes provided by the remaining shortlisted teams. The competition called for a modern passenger and cargo […]
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Taipei Performing Arts Centre / OMA
Last week, OMA released renderings of the Taipei Performing Arts Centre. True to the OMA (recycled) aesthetic, the Performing Arts Centre is made up of volumes intersecting at unpredictable angles accompanied by various surface treatments. They broke ground and construction began last week. The building is scheduled to open in 2015. –@ybaynes Watch an animation explaining the design of...
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TEK Building / Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
Danish firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) designed a technology center for Taipei, Taiwan. The building is made up of a cube structure with organic voids cut out from its center. Called TEK (Technology, Entertainment & Knowledge Centre), holes in the structure will create a spiral within the volume, forming access routes from street level into […]
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