My Precious....

 

Seriously?  What THE??!#@$#%@#% is that... AHHHH its in Dubai... for  some reason logic has never applied to Dubai. This is the only city in the world that would dare design a building that looks like a giant Turbine, then seek LEED certification for it and the TURBINE DOESNT EVEN WORK! no shit. The turbine is actually a floating restaurant.  I do not jest.  To bad I already used my Eye of Sauron reference.  Oh hell - lets use it again....

    
It works right?  pretty close match... so now we know the secret - The countries with the oil have the RING! CRAP!  It is astonishing that Dubai has continued down this road.  Apparently this building was slated to be the tallest building in the world (Frodo wouldn't expect any less) but it was canceled in 2008 because of the recession... I found one source that says it is now back on but don't hold me to it.  My Precious!  Who Builds This Shit!

Phantom of Doom

This is AWESOME... They tried to build this shit but it didn't work.  This is a hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea apparently it was never finished and has sat there as an eyesore since the 80's. I LOVE THIS!!!

"In 1987, Baikdoosan Architects and Engineers put its first shovel into the ground and more than twenty years later, after North Korea poured more than two percent of its gross domestic product to building this monster, the hotel remains unoccupied, unopened, and unfinished."

You have to read the whole story that was in esquire here.  The best part about this building are all these renderings I found online, people love this building obviously ha ha ha ha!  Who TRIES to Build this SHIT!

This video is even better:



As Esquire so elegantly puts it: "The Demolition S How video by the Italian architects Extraneo might not be as conceptual as Ryugyong.org, but this piece of architectural porn sure is fun to watch. The video (which you can watch above) was mounted as part of the exhibition Fiction Pyongyang, curated in part by Stefano Boeri, who also collected 120 speculative designs for the hotel in the June 2006 domus magazine. The designs, he says, "have forced it to reveal its icy nature, its irresistible fascination as a fragile alien meteorite." The worst building in the world is also, we now know, "the only built piece of science fiction in the contemporary world." And it's true. Demolition S How is all Blade Runner-style flying ads and soaring concrete, and the video reminds us that the worst building in the world is the closest humans have come to building a Death Star."

The New Face of Health Care?

Granted this one has not been built yet. But it was submitted to us with a plea to help stop this shit from getting built! Is this seriously the future of Health Care? What exactly does this image say? It says that health care really is about money and not actual care. It looks like a bad retail strip mall not a state of the art health facility... Great image to project guys! You can buy shoes or have a bypass! Who Builds This Shit!