Somebody get Kevin Costner on the line...

really - y'think 'floating'? - i am getting more of an image of 'emerging' from the water - like a swamp-thing or jules verne or jaws.. something lurking both above and below the water - it would be interesting to see of one of those above/below water shots (or maybe the plain concrete foundation would be a let-down) - but we could imagine sub-surface lights and .. 'Abyss' architecture anyone?..

y'think 'floating'? - i am getting a more clear image of 'emerging' like as in swamp-thing or jules verne or jaws... it would be interesting to see an above/below water shot (or maybe not, if it is only concrete below) - but we can dream of eerie-greenish lights and sub-surface forms - 'Abyss' architecture anyone?

guild wars has some of the best looking concept art i've ever seen. the material for nightfall is particularly well done. here's hoping they maintain that level of artistic expression in guild wars 2.

Gotta love the Dutch! They are preparing for the rising sea levels by building housing that is amphibious. They are so far below sea level that the network of dykes and levees they maintain cannot possibly compensate for the polar ice melt. So they've developed affordable housing based on floating concrete bases (if it's hollow or porous, the concrete will float) attached to permanent foundations on the ground by metal rods that slide up and down. When the tide comes in, the land floods and the house floats up, maintaining it's position by the anchor rods.

@Justin K. Rivers: That concept has been arround and in practice for a while now. I live on Vancouver island so the ocean is a large part of things and docks are often made of porous concrete with the same rod idea except they are creosote treated phone poles.

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I think that it is a neat Idea but not a transportable one. we're going to run out of shoreline and unless the can keep making structures like this outward in a web of buildings. definitely doesn't look safe for open seas.

Pretty though.

also, that concept art looks pretty sweet.

That first picture from the top looks really, really, real. But does Mohammed approve, is the question?

@Taurich: according to the new yorker, they've already transported the idea to the netherlands and are implementing it on a significant scale. What's different from docks in vancouver is that these are houses on dry land, that will be flooded during high tides once their seawalls fail.