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Lucasfilm Unveils "Sandcrawler" Singapore Office

Posted by samzenpus on from the breaks-over-jawa dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The massive, slow moving Sandcrawlers from George Lucas' Star Wars films inspired the form of Lucasfilm's new regional headquarters in Singapore. Designed by Aedas, the Sandcrawler Building will house a 100 seat theater, Lucasfilm Singapore offices, a public podium and other employee spaces. Neither rusty nor slow moving in this case, the glassy and streamlined building will combine a high performance facade with lush gardens and foliage that spills over terraces, resulting in a highly efficient commercial space. With construction already underway, we can look forward to this real life Star Wars manifestation sometime in 2012."

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  1. Re:Asia by hedwards · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's not really true. Had you been around thousands of years ago to see what are now Greek ruins they would have been quite the sight. Unfortunately, due to whether and deterioration you don't get to see the bright colors that were original.

    The main difference is that the temples in SE Asia relied more upon detail carved into the rock than treatments applied to the building materials.

  2. How Appropriate... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If memory serves, the sandcrawlers were the mobile headquarters for the Jawas, a smelly little species known for their skill in picking over and/or stealing the detritus of more advanced civilizations, bodging it up just enough to get it moving off the sales lot under its own power, and then skipping town.

    This seems like an eminently appropriate architectural allusion for the 'late-Lucas' period of Lucasfilms' work...

    1. Re:How Appropriate... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Interesting

      If I remember correctly, the rationalization(most likely a retcon) was that Tatooine was originally a much more ambitious mining colony that, for some sort of convenient plot-related reasons, failed to pan out. The investors said "fuck it" and abandoned all the equipment not worth pulling back out of the gravity well, along with the assorted scum and yokels who were hanging around to either take advantage of the distant location or scratch out a feeble living. That was supposed to explain how they had sandcrawlers in the first place, those being rather above their tech level, and how a lifestyle based on nomadic scrounging and tinkering could possibly make sense...

  3. Re:Asia by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 3, Informative

    Meh. In Asia, but also in Europe, public spaces tend to look a lot better than in the USA, where they mostly look rather shabby. But moderns buildings in Asia are just as crap as in Europe and the USA, whereas in old buildings on all continents you will find attention to beauty and detail. I did not find buildings in Asia to be all that nicer.

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  4. Not the first sandcrawler corporate HQ. by davebooth · · Score: 3, Funny

    Exercise a little google-fu and check out the Best Buy corporate HQ near the Minneapolis/St Paul airport... When they built that it seemed so appropriate and in line with their corporate attitude that they'd be headquartered in a bunch of sandcrawlers. We try to avoid buying from them but if we're running out of options, somebody in the family will always say "well, in the last resort we could go look what the Jawas have got... "

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  5. What retarded PR by sgage · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Neither rusty nor slow moving in this case, the glassy and streamlined building will combine a high performance facade with lush gardens and foliage that spills over terraces, resulting in a highly efficient commercial space. "

    WTF is a high performance facade?

  6. 'Bird Shit Architecture' in Brasilia and Beyond by ipv6_128_lgwb · · Score: 3, Informative

    Great talk about this type of Architecture http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnq1SvmZUYU