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Busan Opera House submission based upon musical composition

Project Description from the Architects: A FROZEN PIECE OF MUSIC Anisotropia, the design for the new Busan Opera House, is based on Klavierstück I, a composition for piano by Orproject director Christoph Klemmt. It is…

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Phoenix International Media Center Chinese architects Baid UFO build Beijing’s latest architectural feat

[SitM: the story looks like Chinese Government Propoganda, but granted, it is a beautifully executed design] Hand in hand with China’s overall rapid growth and explosive urbanization, recent years have seen a wave of high-design…

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Busan Opera House submission by PRAUD

[SitM: Opera is mostly dead, but architecture is not. Nice to see more departure from the lazy right angle designs] Boston-based firm PRAUD has shared with us their entry to the Busan Opera House competition….

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Record Industry Braces for Artists’ Battles Over Song Rights

Since their release in 1978, hit albums like Bruce Springsteen’s “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” Billy Joel’s “52nd Street,” the Doobie Brothers’ “Minute by Minute,” Kenny Rogers’s “Gambler” and Funkadelic’s “One Nation Under a…

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Japanese girl’s ‘levitation’ photos

[SitM: this teen is definitely very creative. Work looks like CGI out of the original Matrix movie. Salut!] Tokyo teenager Natsumi Hayashi has an odd, but incredibly fascinating hobby – she takes photographs of herself…

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Yurikamome High Speed Rail Line by Appuru Pai

Photographer Appuru Pai presents an amazing series of photographs taken on the Japanese high speed rail line, Yurikamome.

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Organic Architecture: Living Tree Building Designs & Ideas

[SitM: to simplify this process they should use stainless steel trees]

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BMW 328 Retro Concept Car

[SitM: we nearly always love the beauty of concept cars. Intrigue is added when there are styling references to the past]

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Another World’s Tallest Building – the erectile dysfunction compensation continues . . . but at least it looks cool

News broke that Chicago firm Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture is designing Kingdom Tower, to be the world’s tallest building, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, near the Red Sea. [...] It has been reported that…

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More on the transformation of the music scene – Lollapalooza 2011

Lollapalooza 2011: Deadmau5, Foo Fighters wrap up fest CHICAGO — The final headliners for the last day of Lollapalooza in Grant Park perfectly symbolized both the festival’s origins and its likely evolution. On one end,…

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