Wired is carrying this article detailing what seems to be the "next big thing" in architecture, "smart buildings" which radically adapt themselves to changing situations:

At the Office for Robotic Architectural Media & The Bureau for Responsive Architecture, Tristan d'Estree Sterk is working on shape-changing "building envelopes" using "actuated tensegrity" structures -- a system of rods and wires manipulated by pneumatic "muscles" that serve as the building's skeleton, forming the framework of all its walls.

Without exception, all of the "avante guard" buildings I've ever been in have had one or more essentially unfixable problems directly related to their loopy designs. Roofs that always leak, switches that never work, wiring that sparks entertainingly at unexpected times and HVAC systems that blow cold on freezing days and hot on steamy ones, all and more seem to be fixtures of multi-award-winning buildings. Now you're telling me they're going to build a structure that can collapse itself. On purpose.

Yeah, ok. You go in there, have fun, I'll stand outside and take pictures. Hopefully when it starts raining the worst it will do is leak.