LONDON | The Cloud | 400 FT / 120 M | 1 FLOOR

[Hoodrat]

I think it looks fine, but I'm totally confused as to how people get from one bubble to the next. Are the "floating" bubbles that are detached from the main cluster tethered somehow that isn't shown in the render?

[Zerton]

I think things like this are beyond conceptual. When you can't even begin to describe how it would be built you are making science fiction.

[Indescribable]

Its pretty unique, that's for sure.

[M II A II R II K]

Interactive 'Cloud' Unveiled For London Olympics


30 November 2009

http://www.redorbit.com/news/technol...ndon_olympics/

A team of leading architects and engineers has just unveiled designs for the Cloud -- a landmark structure to commemorate London's role as host of the 2012 Olympics. The lightweight transparent tower, composed of a "cloud" of inflatable, light-emitting spheres, would create a spatial, three-dimensional display in the skies over London, fed by real time information from all over the world.

- The Cloud will also be "a vast, collective energy-harvesting effort," says Alex Haw. "People can choose to ascend the Cloud on foot or bicycle; the energy that it would take to descend the Cloud is converted, on the way down, into electricity through elevators with regenerative braking, similar to those that are present in hybrid cars.

[747]

both sides of me want to barf

[Tom In Chicago]

Moved to appropriate subforum. . .

[Infernal_Elf]

O_0

London wants to use the Olympics as an excuse to be the new Dubai obviously