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Back to the Future

3/6/2014

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Here is some amazing precast concrete.  Not only is it complex, it's curved.  What I find even more special is that they bothered to do this not on the front, but on the BACK of the building, where it only benefits the residents themselves and their immediate neighbors.  This was the view from the kitchen window of the apartment I stayed in in Mexico City.  The laundry is a good indicator of scale!

The sad part is that we don't make precast concrete, or much of anything with any architectural intricacy, like this anymore.  

The exciting part is that in the very near future we will be 3D printing entire facades like this.  The whole idea of 'craft' is about to change quite radically, and we will be seeing a lot of new ways of doing things.  

The possibilities are endless, but it's also great to have examples like this to follow.  

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