Friday, April 27, 2007

Sleek new office building design for Qatar

The first association with this design is that it looks like condom. You hear me right. Don't believe me? Then follow the link and take a look!

But I tend to think that it will stay like it is as the can't change the top because in Islamic architecture, they avert from using straight edges on the top of buildings - in the past it was seen as bad luck or fortune to have jagged edges towards the top of a building, so you’ll find that the roofs of most historic buildings in Islamic countries utilize the ‘dome’ roof.



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