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LONDON | The Cloud | 400 FT / 120 M | 1 FLOOR

London's 'Digital Cloud'


By Timon Singh | 11/11/09 - 11:55

http://www.euinfrastructure.com/news...digital-cloud/

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Cloud technology is fast becoming the method of choice for users that want to access all their information where-ever they are in the world... but an actual 'Digital Cloud' is being pondered to be a centre piece of the city's Olympic village.

- The Cloud would 'float' over London's skyline and would be made up of 120m towers holding a series of interconnected plastic bubbles that would display images and data. It would also be used as an observation deck as well as a park.















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Like the cloud, ramp needs work, lots of it....
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And some people thought the Guggenheim was vertigo-inducing.
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I can't imagine riding a bike up there....
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Collaborative

The funding will be crowdsourced. The data which provides much of the spectacle comes from the crowd. And, rather brilliantly, much of the energy the building requires will be generated by the people walking around it - crowdgeneration, if it needs coining.

Open

I think the very fact they published this proposal before the final decision is made shows a great understanding of digital culture. They know that they're better to gain popularity by publishing it. Ideas for the digital age grow in public.

Decentralised

This is a building in harmony with its environment. Culturally digital structures tend to work much more in collaboration with a wider environment. Consider the aforementioned farm versus a 20th Century factory farm. In The Cloud, people and climate contribute power. People and climate contribute information and experience. It works as a live barometer of our culture. Its as interconnected with our conscious as any building's ever been.

Scalable

The public, interconnected and collaborative nature of the digital age means that scalable ideas fit best. Opensource software starts with one piece of code and scales. The 'memes' that fly round online are eminently scalable as they evolve with people's interaction. Look how big LOLcats or Starwars kid got. This building 'can be built for £5 or £50m', say the architects.
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Cool project but when I saw that image of the bike going "up" or down...my first thought was going over. Yikes. Railings certainly need to be higher if not totally enclosed for the ramp.
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Cool project but when I saw that image of the bike going "up" or down...my first thought was going over. Yikes. Railings certainly need to be higher if not totally enclosed for the ramp.
Not only that, but the ramp (in those renderings) are very thin. I can't imagine bike and foot traffic going through with some dangerous collisions. There's definitely some more work to be done on this design.
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That proposal will never become reality anyway.
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It's an engineering and safety nightmare. And it's all supported by two (I think) inverted columns? I wouldn't want to be within a mile of that accident waiting to happen.
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this kicks ass!!!


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too whimsical.
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^Exactly^

I love the idea of London having a national symbol built for the Olympics but this is not the right thing. They need something more natural looking (take that however you want it). I do love the fact that it'll have LED lights to broadcast important moments!

Keep working on it I say!
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This thread is a waste of bandwidth. The UK is one of the worst off major economies, already complaining about the cost of the Olympics and now this pipe dream? Sorry I clicked...
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I'm not sure if this structure is worthy of London.
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Okay, i've seen weird things proposed (most of them in Dubai), but I have to say, this may be the weirdest.
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I like it a lot, especially compared to the other entry that's been made public.

But I think this is just a publicity stunt. There's no way they could guarantee to build such an unusual structure on time. Jörg Schlaich designed this more modest tower in Stuttgart, and that was completed 7 years late.

If they seriously thought their tower was going to be chosen, they would have kept quiet.



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I would, in the long run, rather unsustainable from a safety point of view.
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London's 'Digital Cloud'

This image is freakin' hilarious.

Pyramids evolve into the Eiffel Tower. The Eiffel Tower inverted = people doing house dancing.

Crystal Palace evolves into Birdnests evolves into some freaky shit on your skyline!

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I like the novelty of it. As it stands, it is an awesome idea and should be built. But the other side of me thinks it's tacky.

The transition graphics are laughable, I agree. Just because the people I knew that would make that stuff were pretty messed up in the head. Too much time at work or in the studio will do that to you.
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