Solar Waterfall Building Design For 2016 Rio Olympics | Beautiful way to generate and store electricity. Imagine a futuristic, high-tech world filled with energy producing buildings like this. | Inhabitat - http://www.inhabitat.com/2010...
Mar 20, 2010
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"This renewable energy generating tower located on the coast of Rio is one of the first buildings we’ve seen designed for the 2016 Rio Olympics, and boy, is it crazy! (In case you didn’t notice, it’s also a waterfall.) The Solar City Tower is designed by Zurich-based RAFAA Architecture & Design, and features a large solar system to generate power during the day and a pumped water storage system to generate power at night. RAFAA’s goal is that a symbolic tower such as this can serve as a starting point for a global green movement and help make the 2016 Olympic Games more sustainable."
- Kurt Starnes
That is amazing!
- Ordinarybug Heather
One thing that I missed about the Vancouver Olympics is that they didn't have any awesome buildings. Other Olympics have almost all had some kind of new, iconic building for the Olympics but Vancouver didn't seem to.
- Rochelle