‘Condom Architecture’: Covering Buildings In High-Tech Sheaths

A trio of Australian architects proposes “to sheath the conveniently plug-ugly 1960s Broadway Tower at Sydney’s University of Technology with a kind of high-tech negligée that glows in the dark – ‘a transparent cocoonthat acts as a high-performance micro-climate, generates energy with photovoltaic cells, collects rain water, improves day lighting’ [and more …]”