Google’s newly opened Pittsburgh office, image via Fast.Co Design.

Another factory becomes another tech office, this time in the old center of American industry. An iced out tower in Hong Kong, Prince Charles complains about being seen as old-fashioned, and calibrating space to reflect the lens through which it’s viewed. Click through.

Woods Bagot’s newly finished Cubus Tower in Hong Kong. Image via A/N Blog.

Calibration II, by Kyung Woo Han, which allows a distorted physical space to be viewed as “normative” through a fish-eye lens. Image via Today and Tomorrow.

Google’s newly opened Pittsburgh office, image via Fast.Co Design.

Come on, architects! You’re perpetuating a vicious, dangerous cycle by designing buildings that, ultimately, lead to icicles. Yeah, you heard that right. Architects are at fault for any and all falling ice. [via The New York Times]

Inspired by, uh, “an ice cube,” Woods Bagot have completed the Cubus Tower in Hong Kong. The 25-story tower has “shards” cut into it to form terraces – leading us to wonder if they actually meant “ice” in the diamond sense of the world. [via A/N Blog]

Admittedly, Google office architecture is generally a pretty easy target – but Suzanne LeBarre  still has a hilarious commentary on Google’s newly unveiled Pittsburgh office, which is located in the old Nabisco factory. LeBarre: “They left its guts raw, so you’ve got exposed pipes and peeled paint and gashes in the walls (from the gritty, rough-and-tumble Rust Belt work of making cookies).” [via Fast.Co Design]

A room that reverses the fish-eye lens effect: artist Kyung Woo Han‘s Calibration II installation is a room that replicates the effect so that, when it is viewed through a fish-eye lens, it looks normal. [via Today and Tomorrow]

Prince Charles says he’s going “insane” over the public perception of him as maniac-for-classicism. He elaborated further recently, saying that his Foundation is actually a populist vehicle that allows people to “choose types of development they were instinctively comfortable with.” [via BD Online]

by Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

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