These are buildings whose reflective surfaces make them appear to blend into the landscape. They're like the architectural equivalent of the scramble suits from Philip K. Dick's novel A Scanner Darkly.
The Rachel Raymond House, originally designed by Eleanor Raymond, re-visioned by Pedro Joel Costa as an invisible building, Belmont, Massachusetts
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Mirror house, a temporary installation on the Isle of Tyree, Scotland, designed by Ekkehard Altenburger, 1996
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The Cira Centre, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, opened in 2005
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Pavilion for an Artist, designed by DHL Architecture, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2008
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The Mirrorcube, a treehotel in Harads, Sweden, designed by Tham & Videgård, 2008-2010
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Pinnacle at Symphony Place, an office and retail skyscraper designed by Pickard Chilton, completed in 2009, Nashville, Tennessee
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The first invisible skyscraper ever: the 1,476 ft (450 m) tall Infinity Tower, by GDS Architects, plans unveiled in September 2013.
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But how could it disappear from its skyline? ArchDaily explains:
Cameras will be mounted at six strategic points; thousands of LED screens on the facade will then broadcast the real-time photos captured and logged by the cameras.
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Camelot at Cockfosters, a proposed cultural centre designed by a Swedish studio named Råk-Arkitektur, London, UK
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Bonus: The partially invisible Lucid Stead, by Philip K. Smith III, within the California High Desert in Joshua Tree, 2013
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