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Well, after a while I guess you can start to hate mirrored glass whether you live in a big city or work on a prison farm with someone who wears a pair. I know this halfbaked is going to end up with a forty-story-tall Donald Trump glaring down at Manhattan, but how about replacing those boring old mirrors
on modern glass office buildings with a design etched onto the glass in holographic form? Even if it was merely a slight rainbow effect or a kind of a, I don't know, a fog around the building that was made out of light, it would make the skyline more interesting. Knobby parts. A big kitten. Anything. I'm sure that people with visual arts or architecture training can think of other textures for buildings besides "mirror" or "stone." Note that I'm not talking about a whole illusionary building, merely replacing or installing 3-D holographic windows to achieve a large-scale "classy artistic" effect. I suspect the whole idea will be superceded by the already-begun fad of mounting flat television screens en masse on the outside of buildings. I'm guessing this would be a more conservative, permanent 3-D look.
Sculptural buildings nearby in the ideasphere
http://www.halfbake...20Busty_20Buildings Idea which gave me this idea [cloudface, Oct 21 2004]
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// after a while I guess you can start to hate mirrored glass // |
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After a while, you would probably start to hate holograms too. |
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How did I miss this? Bun! |
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How about holograms of mirrored glass? |
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Sounds nice, but what about the occupants? Looking out windows is nice & healthy, but I wouldn't want to have those few window views be obscured by holograms. |
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Sophocles - It doesnt have to be the entire facade. A fully glass building creates a lot of unwanted glare anyway, and most of the occupants have their shades drawn. Reducing the amount of glass actually makes the windows more usable.
The idea gets a bun, but I will withdraw it if we ever get a 40 storey tall Donald Trump. Maybe the hologram could give him a better wig. |
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It would be a welcome change to the neon lights on the Strip. |
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