Science Fiction Structures?

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Science Fiction Structures?

Seen in Flickr.com titled Science Fiction at selfridges.
the green lights make it look even more alien, I think... . . .photographer's comment..

The new millennium has open up a new series of architectural concept designs, that could be attributed to the intense and very fast appreciation of the power of the computer in producing architectural and engineering visualization tools, drafting and production of the materials used for construction.

In the days of the early computers, where CADD ( Computer Aided Design and Drafting) was the talk of the town, converting the industry to lean and rely more on the CADD power, architectural and engineering drawings for construction had taken a huge leap into the fast and accurate drawing via the use of the computers.

In the early years of the architecture and engineering firms who started to employ computers primarily for their drawing & drafting work, the resulting designs tend to be linear and modular as the computers allowed easy drawing of repetitive work of very complex architectural components and modules. These are exemplified in the works of Kohn Pederson Fox, Michael Graves, Foster & Associates, to name a few.

But other architects like Luis Barragan and Calatrava, did not embrace the technology immediately but waited for the latter part of the computer drawing evolution. The 3D visualization and design software for designers, architects and engineers.

Thus, we have new architectural wonders done with the help of 3Dimesional design software for both architecture and engineering. These helped designers visualize their designs in a virtual view, making their creative and formative decisions on design changes much easier and faster.

Hence we have these new buildings,structures exemplified by the architectural works of Frank Gehry. (BTW,picture shown here is not his work)