Irregularly shaped openings emanate from the base and are concentrated around the thin edge of the wedge-shaped building.
Rising above the Peak Tram terminus is the seven-storey Peak Tower, an anvil-shaped building containing shops, restaurants, tourist items and a viewing terrace.
The Western Morning News is still the flagship of the press in the region, despite the fact it is no longer printed at its ship-shaped building.
G8 meeting in Birmingham on May 15th-17th they will stroll round a revolutionary, wedge-shaped building that signals a shift in the traditional balance between engineers and architects.
The truest-to-life candidate might be the Berlaymont, a large star-shaped building that used to serve as the commission's headquarters until it was evacuated because of an asbestos scare.
And the coastal city of Gangneung helped pay for a phonograph-shaped building to hold a local businessman's collection of Thomas Edison memorabilia, including hundreds of gramophones and light bulbs.
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We also spotted a wedge-shaped building at the Tokyo Institute of Technology that is completely covered in 4, 500 solar panels, which enables it to use half of the energy of a similarly-sized building.
The L-shaped main building and a separate guest wing enclose three sides of a courtyard.
The cube-shaped, two-story building is so airtight that Mr. Konkol, a 55-year-old family physician who bikes 16 miles every day to his practice, knows it is windy outside only from seeing trees moving through the window.
The firm and its architect, NBBJ, looked at how fast people can walk and measured the diameter of the space from multiple angles. (An "infinity-loop"-shaped pathway slopes through the building, connecting employees to each other.) In addition, the floor plan is narrower than typical offices, keeping teams in sight range of one another.
Both newspapers are moving into the city centre after 20 years at the building, which is shaped like a ship.
To design the museum he tapped Tadao Ando of Japan, whose dramatic 320, 000-square-foot building was to be shaped like a giant ocean liner topped by twin glass towers.
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The structure's cone-like shape was designed to reduce wind turbulence, yet there is only one piece of curved glass on the building: a lens-shaped cap at the very top.
Support is provided by slender, jewel-like, X-shaped polished chrome columns placed well inside the building's edge, and the walls that no longer bear weight have become transparent glass screens.
Rather than using rubber hoses to connect the stationary and moving parts of the building, 3sixty's ingenious plumbing system employs horizontal ring-shaped pipes made of steel.
Yeang's designs use walls of plants, scallop-shaped sunshades, solar panels, advanced ventilation and the structure and of the building itself to collect water and catch cooling air currents.
The headquarters will replace 26 office buildings (some previously occupied by HP) with one massive ring-shaped structure a four-story, 2.8-million-square-feet circular building that will house up to 13, 000 employees.
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