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Nothing Will Be Restrained
This short film essay looks at how man has built and talked about elemental architecture forms since the Tower of Babel. It takes the viewer inside the ArcelorMittal Orbit for the first time as well as placing it in historical … Continue reading
Posted in 2012, Architecture, Engineering
Tagged 2012, anish kappoor, boris, cecil balmond, Olympics, orbit
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