Pionen – White mountain, Sweden by Albert France-Lanord Architects

this place got a lot of press recently as the location of the wikileaks servers. a bit over the top for an ISP’s datacenter, even for Sweden, although this is a nice idea:

“The starting point of the project was to consider the rock as a living organism. The humans try to acclimate themselves to this foreign world and bring the ‘best’ elements from earth: light, plants, water and technology.”

(Source: archdaily.com)