I've been looking at what water could do with architecture and this by far is the most fascinating thing I've come across with. The BLUR BUILDING designed by Elizabeth Diller and (husband) Ricardo Scofidio is a media pavilion for Swiss Expo 2002. The pavilion is made of filtered lake water shot as a fine mist through 13,000 fog nozzles creating an artificial cloud that measures 300 feet wide by 200 feet deep by 65 feet high. A built-in weather station controls fog output in response to shifting climatic conditions such as temperature, humidity, wind direction, and wind speed.

There are more features to this besides making a big cloud. There's a Glass box that having a space with glass on six sides, visitors will experience a “sense of physical suspension only heightened by an occasional opening in the fog.” Visitors can climb another level to the Angel Bar at the summit.


The final ascent resembles the sensation of flight as one pierces through the cloud layer to the open sky. Here, visitors relax, take in the view, and choose from a large selection of commercial waters, municipal waters from world capitals, and glacial waters. At night, the fog will function as a dynamic and thick video screen.