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Foster Designs House for his Biggest Clients Ever: Elephants!

Posted June 18, 2008 1:25 PM

From INHABITAT:

Very few of us will ever have the joy of living in a house designed by famed architect Norman Foster. But when the Copenhagen's Zoo biggest residents required a new residence they got a custom designed abode from this world renowned architect. The design is a dramatic departure from the clinical, hi-tech solutions typically seen from Foster's firm. In contrast, The Elephant House is a low tech, naturally textured solution that, remarkably, feels more human scaled than anything else that they have come up with in years.

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Re: Foster Designs House for his Biggest Clients Ever: Elephants!

06/19/2008 7:16 AM

<"....paquiderms...."> Actually pachyderms.

Don't the writers even bother with a spell-checker these days.

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