Bangkok's tallest building will add "pixels" to the cityscape

mdh

#1 – 12:45 PM August 4, 2009

and it spirals up the outside, nice.

Haro!

#2 – 12:46 PM August 4, 2009

That reminds me of another OMA, Koolhaas if I remember correctly, work that is (was?) going up in Manhattan on E22nd St. Looks like the folks at OMA are all on the same page, and I mean that in a good way.

Phikus

#3 – 1:15 PM August 4, 2009

Looks more like it has been chewed on / has been deteriorating. Is it just me or does it kinda look like it could topple over from stress? (Yes, I also look like I could topple over from stress, but that is beside the point.)

Anonymous Anonymous

#4 – 1:58 PM August 4, 2009

They just need a giant beaver clutching the thing.

Fencesitter

#5 – 2:00 PM August 4, 2009

It seems to me that all those corners would cause a lot of vortices (vortexes?) and associated wind noise.

Pusher

#6 – 2:36 PM August 4, 2009

Am I the only one who sees this and thinks, "Melding Plague"?

memoi2001

#7 – 2:46 PM August 4, 2009

actually the first thing that pop in to my head was: "Gojira was here"

Gill Avila

#8 – 3:25 PM August 4, 2009

I'm sure it will give visiting New Yorkers flashbacks.

themark

#9 – 4:44 PM August 4, 2009

Whatever happened to beauty and symmetry? Now replaced with shock and novelty.

Anonymous Anonymous

#10 – 5:19 PM August 4, 2009

it looks like the trade center as it started to collapse

Marshall

#11 – 5:23 PM August 4, 2009

This will blend right in with Bangkok's uncompleted and graffiti covered ghost high rises. Looks fabulous.

misterfricative

#12 – 6:40 PM August 4, 2009

It's an interesting idea, and it reminds me of those old European fake ruins known as 'follies', but what does it have to do with 'pixels'?

And do they realize it does indeed look like the trade center as it started to collapse? This really is in appallingly bad taste.

Anonymous Anonymous

#13 – 8:23 PM August 4, 2009

almost direct ripoff of a Daniel Libeskind project going up in Manhattan. ha!

Hanglyman

#14 – 11:13 PM August 4, 2009

It doesn't look all that impressive from a distance, but I think the up close shot is beautiful. Looks like something from an old sci-fi magazine.

Eutactic

#15 – 2:29 AM August 5, 2009

@ #6: Nope, I immediately thought Melding Plague as well. Tiny copies of the building growing out of the top would seal the deal.

xaxa

#16 – 6:37 AM August 5, 2009

Another pixely one is the one for Leicester (UK) here: http://www.kitsimons.com/journal/aspirational-structures-skyscrapers-planned-in-the-uk (but I'm not sure if it's still going to be built)

Anonymous Anonymous

#17 – 6:51 AM August 5, 2009

Am I the only one who is reminded of 9/11? The pixilated sections make it look like an airplane has hit the building at an angle.

dculberson

#18 – 7:00 AM August 5, 2009

Doesn't look at all like the WTC before, during, or after collapse.

matt

#19 – 11:24 AM August 5, 2009

Very cool.

klek

#20 – 12:10 PM August 5, 2009

Looks like it is disintegrating, post-apocalypse.
Shades of the 1930's Germany idea of buildings designed to become beautiful ruins.

dmoisan

#21 – 2:43 PM August 5, 2009

The SF story "Peaches for Mad Molly" comes immediately to mind here.

Anonymous Anonymous

#22 – 2:57 PM August 5, 2009

First thing I thought of was WTC also. just a large, otherwise smooth building with scarring on it.

Anonymous Anonymous

#23 – 8:18 AM August 6, 2009

doesn't look a thing like WTC. get the fuck over yourselves.

Brian Thomas

#24 – 8:50 PM August 11, 2009

It will never be finished... like most construction projects in Bangkok, overwraught with fraud, scandal, malpractice, police corruption and bribery.

-B.