London’s Cloud

This Cloud architecture plan for the London Olympics is pretty, and potentially truly amazing, but something about it is also haunting – something about these grand designs for the global and digital sublime built into fragile bubbles in the sky makes me shiver and wonder, is this necessary? is this safe? I love art for art sake, but I think there is architecture I like better in theory than in practice – I loved the poetry in some of the early plans for the “Freedom Tower” but again the architecture begs the question, is this important? is this enough? or is this actually just too too much? Let me know your take.

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

The unique structure has come from the minds of an international team of architects, artists and engineers and due to its ‘flexible nature’, the design team are planning to raise funds for the scheme by asking for micro-donations from millions of people.

Read more at EUinfrastructure.com