Cloud Computing begets "Cloud Design" ...???

It's a stretch...a rather tenuous connection, but Interni has a feature called Designing Clouds in their March issue. The Italian tile manufacturer Caselgrande is celebrating their 50th anniversary with a "Ceramic Cloud" designed by the Japanese designer, Kengo Kuma. Or...is this design's preparation for THE END heralded to come in 2012 by an assortment of fanatics?

From the Casalgrande website: "The first event is the “Casalgrande Ceramic Cloud”, a combination of architecture and land art, designed by Kengo Kuma and made by Casalgrande Padana, under an agreement with the Municipality of Casalgrande. The work, the first one to be made by the great Japanese architect in Italy, is well under way and will be finished before next summer.

Set in a communal green area of over 2,8000 square metres, the installation is located on the new Strada Pedemontana next to the company’s production site, with such spectacular landmark acting as the Eastern Gate to the regional ceramic district.

The work is an unusual three-dimensional construction that experiments with innovative applications of the latest-generation ceramic units. Entirely made of special, large glazed stoneware tiles mechanically anchored to a specially-designed metal frame, the construction is over 40 metres large and 7 metres high and looks like an architectural object of refined elegance intended to symbolically mark a traditional productive region which is deeply bonded to the culture of design."