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jun 17, 2008

out of this world architecture

‘complex at the centre of the universe’ by staszek marek, poland

nvidia and the computer graphics society recently held a competition for artistic architectural projects. they recently announced the winners of the ‘nvart challenge’ for which entrants created fantastical environments based on the theme ‘art space: architecture and landscape. if you thought zaha hadid, jean nouvel and rem koolhaus created out of this world structures, wait to you see some of the winners from this competition. ‘heaven in desert’ by tolgahan gungor, turkey

‘in a beautiful place out in the country’ by colin cassidy, great britain

‘water station’ by steve bjorck, great britain

‘gaia’s gift’ by petar milivojevic, belgrade, serbia ‘solaric glass anemore structure v’ by albert kiefer, netherlands

‘mega village 2108’ by andrew barton, great britain

‘water plant’ by david gonzalez fernandez, spain

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