A tower with very unusual shape in Beijing (China) will be completed for the Olympic games 2008.
It’s new China Central Television Tower (CCTV). It seems an impossible object , maybe you think that this building cannot exist in the our world, because it consists of two leaning towers, which are joined by a bridge with corner shape. The whole shape of the building seems like deformed square donut.
In 2002 two architects from Holland Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren won an international competition for the CCTV tower and the project broke ground in September 2004. The project is even more complex because Beijing lies in an earthquake zone, and the tower is full of technical challenges.
Escher could like this paradoxical building of his fellow countrymen.
This anamorphic 3D Optical Illusion is being used as a part of Philadelphia’s effort to slow down drivers speeding through local streets. The basic idea is that rather than building real speed bumps on roads, optical illusion speed bumps are being tested that are intended to trick drivers into slowing down, only later to find that there was no bump after all. I’m all for great new ideas like this one, specially when they have something to do with illusions, but this one seems very flawed. Maybe an optical illusion bump would trick me once, but wouldn’t I learn pretty quickly where these fake bumps are located? Another problem would occur if I was driving a bike, and lost my control over it. I can also see people in the near future beginning to ignore real speed bumps thinking they are illusions, only to hit the bumps at 35 mph and getting a little unintended air. What do you think? In short: markings are designed to look like a 3-D pyramid from afar, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is testing the “bumps”, they cost a fraction of real speed bumps and require little maintenance, in one location drivers slowed down, but the effect wore off after a few months.
Take a look at this street performer, which I would put in magic illusions category. He’s really just standing in the air, Do yout know how does he manages it .
Check out the short video below , you’ll see how realistic it looks.
A tower with very unusual shape in Beijing (China) will be completed for the Olympic games 2008.
