Discussion » Venus Plane Trap

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Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 11th October 2005:
 
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 12th October 2005:
 
PS: no there is no photoshopping or odd lens skews in this photo. they really are leaning.
Posted by SuperFunGordon_DUPE1, around 12th October 2005:
 
Fuck living under one of those.

Where are they, Salt?
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 12th October 2005:
 
oh, sorry.
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www.lera.com/projects/hir/p...
Puerta de Europa is a major office and residential project which stands astride the paseo de la Castellana, Madrid’s most important boulevard, on the north side of the Plaza de Castilla. These twin towers are the world's first leaning high-rise buildings.

The location of the site over a subway interchange makes it structurally impossible for the buildings to stand near the street. In order for the two towers to read as a pair, they were designed to lean toward each other over their plazas. This bold move creates a portal which, being at the northern end of the business district, becomes the gateway to Europe, hence the name of the project.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 12th October 2005:
 
that PDE suffix to the URL is a bit of a worry... "probability density estimate" -- *probably* won't fall on you at any one particular point in time.
Posted by WarHead, around 12th October 2005:
 
Ostend

Whereas this one looks like it's wonky, but it's not, it's just the way it looks from this angle.
Posted by Saltation_DUPE1, around 12th October 2005:
 
and the electricity pole is having a bad hair day