Blobject
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A blobject is a design product, often a brightly-coloured object, which has smooth curves and no sharp edges. The word is a portmanteau of "blob" and "object".
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The Selfridges building ("The Blob") in Birmingham by architect Jan Kaplický of Future Systems
The Loosova stop in Brno, made as a miniature version of the Kaplický's design of a "blob-shaped" public library
Blobitecture
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Blobitecture, blobism and blobismus are terms for a movement in architecture in which buildings have an organic, amoeba-shaped building form. Though the term blob architecture was already in vogue in
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…technologies have given designers the chance to use new shapes and to explore transparency and translucency without significant extra production costs. Blobitecture Y2K aesthetic…
Future Systems' blobitecture design for the 2003 Selfridges Building department store was intended to evoke the female silhouette and a famous "chainmail" dress designed by Paco Rabanne in the 1960s.
The Montreal Biosphère by Buckminster Fuller, 1967
The Edificio Copan by Oscar Niemeyer, 1957
The Flintstone House in northern California