Le Project Triangle is one of those buildings that make us think that we may actually drive flying cars one day. To be completed by 2014 in the Porte de Versailles area in Paris, its most impressive feature is that, according to the architects, it won't cast shadows on adjacent buildings. The trick is the orientation and its shape: While it looks like a massive pyramid from one side, the other side shows that it really is an ultra-thin triangle resembling a shark's fin. Gizmodo | WAN | prev. | pics after the jump...
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Looks like an alien spaceship, especially in the second picture, compared to already existing buildings around it.
yes, the second picture does remind me of the death star over san francisco. or maybe it's just me being extremely disappointed by yet another pyramid.
a good point was made by someone on gizmodo - that if it is optimised to reduce casting a shadow surely that is counter to it being able to recieve solar power.
and somehow i think it will still cast a little bit of a shadow.
it's a glass version of kim jong il's Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang...
wicked!
what's next, a reworking of farnsworth house w/ solid walls and transparent floor and ceiling?
holz, that could be amazing (especially given the farnsworth house's siting on a flood plain).
what on earth..
it will cast shadows...i could only image a thin triangular shaped building not casting shadowns in the equator...
additionally, i think its shadows are the least of that buildings problems...
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