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    An Office of the Future Held Aloft by Balloons

    This office is suspended by two huge balloons, and only the ceiling is preventing it from hovering dozens of feet off the ground and gently drifting in the breeze. Is this a model of an environmentally-friendly office of the future, its energy needs fed by sunlight and wind? Or was it built by people who have had to work in cramped offices their whole lives and want nothing more than to float those boxes into a hurricane? Built by artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, who specialize in creating weirdly re-imagined prefab buildings, this installation once hovered in Berlin's largest train station (as you can see below). More »