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Sex toy architecture? "XXX-HY: A Luxury Real Estate Dildo Experience"

2019-10-04T11:45:00-04:00

Architecture practice Wolfgang & Hite has designed architectural sex toys reimagine each of the new buildings at the Hudson Yards. “There’s a lot to love in NYC’s recent building boom, but the city and developers have been jerking each other off for decades, so naturally we wanted to join in the fun… Masturbation is a great metaphor for the latest wave of development in New York City," writes the group on their website.

The collection has been named XXX-HY: A Luxury Real Estate Dildo Experience. Each piece has been scaled to 1"= 100' and includes Heatherwick Studio's Vessel as an "amateur buttplug," DSR's Shed as a clitoral stimulator, and KPF's "gargantuan roof deck tower as a magnum fisting dildo - recommended for those without a fear of heights." Also in the bunch is SOM's "super-slender" 25 Hudson Yards.

"Sex does the body good. After the fiery criticisms of Hudson Yards this year, we thought city officials might need a healthy outlet for working through some of that guilt," wr...

UK's second tallest tower's resemblance to a sex toy raises controversy

2017-09-28T13:56:00-04:00

Peaking at 236 metres high, One Lansdowne will be taller than any Canary Wharf tower block and only eclipsed by The Shard, which is 95 floors and 310 metres.

The British are notorious for giving funny nicknames to their buildings. The construction of the One Lansdowne has not yet started, but Londoners have already noticed the tower's resemblance to a Rampant Rabbit sex toy.

Platinum Rampant Rabbit Vibrator

Image CZWG Architects

The asymmetrical horse-shoe shaped complex is composed of two towers of 68 and 41 stories, linked by an 11-story podium. The towers will host affordable housing units, apartments, a hotel, a gym, commerces and office spaces. At 775 feet high, it would be the second tallest building in the UK.

Image CZWG Architects

Croydon approved the design but the plans need to be approved by the mayor of London before construction starts.

Image CZWG Architects

Karim Rashid Rates Dildo Designs

2010-07-17T18:50:00-04:00

German newspaper die Welt asked superstar global design machine and Fun Factory sextoy shop designer Karim Rashid to comment on dildos. For the one called Dinky Digger he said, "this is a small animal, huh?" Welt Online