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Quick, what are the most recognizable icons of the 21st century? Architect Changiz Tehrani thinks they’re emojis. And he’s so sure of it, that he has just put 22 of them on a building in the Netherlands.
“In classical architecture, they used heads of the king or whatever, and they put that on the facade,” he told the Verge. “So we were thinking, what can we use as an ornament so when you look at this building in 10 or 20 years you can say ‘hey this is from that year!
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The building is constructed around the lines of a grid, with pillars of brick, beams of white concrete, and decorative circles at the intersections. The emojis only appear on one side of the structure, which faces a town square and a 150-year-old oak. The building itself is of mixed-use. There are shops on the ground floor and flats above them.
The designs of the 22 emoji were borrowed…
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