Frog Queen, or the Prisma Engineering Headquarters (a machine and motor technology company) is located in Graz, Styria, Austria. Its facade was designed by SPLITTERWERK and looks like one giant pixelized box. Even the facade itself is practically a square. However, if you look very closely, you will see that each one of the pixels has circular patterns screenprinted on its face. Overall, the exterior features 10 shades of gray, and the square windows seem to blend into the rest of the pattern.
Photography by Nikolaos Zachariadis, SPLITTERWERK.
pixel on 10.15.2009 at 05:01 AM
The building is not waht I should call beautiful, but the image of the small elements formings pixels, like quarks forming atoms, is just intellectually beautiful !
Adam on 10.17.2009 at 07:47 AM
I don’t agree, i think beautiful is something subjective.
Adam
Jon on 12.08.2009 at 23:53 PM
I like it. Simple, effective etc. has some beauty because of that so I agree with intellectual beauty as an idea.Not that its important to your idea if I agree or not.
But as usual the words are odd. Its either a square OR its not, the windows either blend OR they dont. Why do things have to seem to be?..
Still a damn site(sight?) more interesting than the project I’m on. Que sera.
abhominal on 01.28.2011 at 19:46 PM
It looks like it’s just been plonked on a carpark.
Zenani Hayles on 06.07.2011 at 12:00 PM
Really thinking outside the box here; For all of us who studied Visual Arts or Design, did you remember making your cube box, this remind me of mine… this is remarkable: for the intention and use of the building it should somehow stimulate lots of creative and abstract thinking, very successful in my opinion.
Zenani Hayles