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China wants to build a $126-million comic book museum shaped like giant speech bubbles

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Dutch design firm MVRDV recently won a competition to build the China Comic and Animation Museum in the city of Hangzhou. The firm shaped this trippy building like a collection of intermingling speech bubbles. The designers estimate that this project will cost €92 million (approximately $125.6 million), begin construction in 2012, and will attract visitors with its “gigantic 3D zoetrope.” Should it ever be completed, I imagine visiting this museum will be an experience on par with freebasing a copy of Detective Comics #27.

[MVRDV via Comics Alliance]

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