Shenzhen Stock Exchange
| May 17, 2008

I love it when architecture makes me laugh in a "haha! That's cool!" way...

The stock tickers on the underside of the the canopy are brilliant and speak to the future of economic design in our urban cores. 

"For millennia the solid building has stood on a solid base which anchors the structure and connects it emphatically to the ground. In the SSE building the traditional base is lifted up the tower to become a floating platform to broadcast the economic information of the virtual market and in turn liberate the space on the ground for public space and events."  

Link:  Shenzhen Stock Exchange on Dezeen

Tags:  architecture, design

Topic: Architecture