By Michael Patrick Gibson
January/February 2008

The Building, Digitally Remastered

In this era, the rectilinear glass box has become a quaint relic of the predigital past.

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Phaeno Science

Zaha Hadid Architects

Wolfsburg, Germany

2005

Fifteen years ago, it would have been difficult--and in some cases impossible--to engineer the buildings in these pages. Now ­powerful computer-assisted design and manufacturing techniques let ­architects build according to wholly new geometries. In this era, the ­rectilinear glass box has become a quaint relic of the predigital past.

Credit: Werner Huthmacher/Zaha Hadid

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