The Future’s Here Already

You could use this building as a set for an Ian Banks novel:

I can imagine that if you lived in this building complex in Osaka the rest of the ugly urban landscape would be completely obscured – but even the curtain walls and clever angles of this garden within a fortress won’t hide residents from the smog.
The pic is one of a Flickr photostream of Japanese architecture from PoshSentinel.

Published by Palau

Been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, washed the t-shirt 23 times, threw the t-shirt in the ragbag, now I'm polishing furniture with it.

2 Comments

  • bjacques

    June 26, 2008 at 8:13 am

    They’d need a missile shield too. It’s a pretty easy target for mortar fire.

  • Palau

    July 1, 2008 at 3:35 am

    A geodesic dome!