Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Don't Look Down: 10 Peculiarly Precarious Modern Buildings

Don't Look Down: 10 Peculiarly Precarious Modern Buildings | WebUrbanist: "he world’s worst skyscraper disaster is still fresh in our minds, and every year sees a new calamity in our global obsession with building storey after storey, higher and higher. You would think that all architects would be careful to make their buildings look as stable as mountains. You’d be wrong. Thanks to modern building materials and behind-the-scenes architectural wizardry, the new field of precarious-looking urban architecture is on the rise – as these ten vertigo-inducing examples illustrate."