Despite how exciting certain aspects of science research can be, most scientists work in anonymous pre-fabs or cramped, revamped basements painted white.

Unless of course you’re a scientist in Belgrade, Serbia, many of whom will be climbing over each other in the future to work in the hugely futuristic Center For Science, which has been designed by Austrian architect Wolfgang Tschapeller.

As you can see, it takes the concept of a ‘building on stilts’ and supersizes it. The winning design is part of ……… Read the rest of this entry »

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Possibly the most wanted man in recent months – after Santa that is – was the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange.

Last month various newspapers published articles suggesting they had stumbled across the WikiLeaks HQ in the above hollowed out bunker. It’s very like the lair of some James Bond villain but unfortunately, those articles were a little misleading.

Instead, this stunning place in Sweden is the home to a couple of WikiLeaks servers only. Formerly a Swedish bunker during the Cold War, Pionen White Mountain is a 1,200 square meter data center, that sits 30 meters below the granite rocks of the Vita Berg Park in Stockholm.

It was designed by Albert France-Lanord architects and makes the best of its unusual location. Wannabe Doctor Evil’s take note: you’re gonna need one of these. More shots after the jump.

[Archdaily]

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It might be a case of mad potter meets mad architect, but people in gambling town Biloxi are this week celebrating the opening of the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, designed by Frank Gehry.

There was a project underway in 2005 but Hurricane Katrina’s wave lifted a three-story floating casino barge clean out the water and plopped it on top of it. Dedicated to the self-proclaimed ‘Mad potter of Biloxi’, George Ohr, who died in 1918, the museum will showcase his off-the-wall ceramics – forerunners of America’s modern art movement decades later.

The 25,000-square-foot museum – whose budget jumped from $10- million to $40 million – will have six pavilions, alongside four steel gallery pods, all situated in a grove of ancient oaks.

“We’re in the middle of trees,” said Gehry in an interview. “We couldn’t have continuous connectors or walkways.”…. Read the rest of this entry »

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Online video site Vimeo had its video awards and festival in New York last weekend and apart from choosing winners for its various video categories, the organisaers decided to take one of architect Frank Gehry’s distinctive New York buildings and give it a cutting 3D mapping experience.

For anyone who has ever thought of introducing a light show to their exhibition or show stand, you could do a lot worse that checking out the above lightshow from seeper.

Things are moving on from the basic old projector showing still images of boring old corporate logos.

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