Drive-In Auto Museum



Last year, the Jiangsu Head Investment Group and the government of Nanjing, China held a competition for designing a museum for the automobile's history and achievements.  Italian architect Francesco Gatti and his team won with this entry featuring an interactive element: you drive into the museum.
The architect describes the museum as a “movie sequence in which the principal actor is the car”, a building where two car-related panorama go hand in hand:   on the one hand the architect’s conscious attention to motorway aestheticism and urban scale – the structures and materials remind one of a viaduct – and on the other, his transportation into the museum of the ergonomics of the interior of a car.  The furbishing and details within the edifice are related to and on a scale with its specific functions and it is not difficult for the visitor to imagine that he is in a car on a highway, rather than in a museum.

http://plusmood.com/2009/09/drive-in-automobile-museum-3gatti/ (rendering courtesy of 3GATTI.)

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Surely it's more like 8 inches tall (have a look at the picture, 4 inches on that tape goes from the middle of the front leg up to the eyeball).

It's probably 4 inches from its belly to the middle of its back.

Still tiny, though.
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I call BS on "4 inches tall." Unless that tape measure is incorrect, that puppy is much taller than that at the withers, and possibly double that to the top of the head.

Of course, the perspective in the photo might be totally an optical illusion, in which case you can disregard all of the above.
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My Yorkshire Terrier is 1 year old and 5 inches tall/ six inches long. She wieghs 1 pound and 8 ounces, but I'm hoping she'll hit 2 pounds someday. So tiny. Tiny dogs need love too you guys!!!
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Have met Dancer and next to my 5 lb. Pomeranian he looks like a squeekie toy.

Dancer is now the smallest working Therapy dog I know. proud as punch of him.
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I was at a airport a few years back and saw 2 of he smallest dogs I have ever seen, I think they were terriers but cant remember for sure. the owners did say they were called tsp and tablespoon terriers I believe. has anyone heard of these types of dogs? If you can help me out that would be wonderful.

Patty
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That is one of the fugliest things I've ever seen..... Looks like the left over hair people leave in a drain after taking a shower...if anyone argues with this comment....you obviously don't have a life
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You know sad part about these pint sized pups is they are bred to be so small because people think they are "CUTE"! Your wanting a dog so tiny makes people breed runts ( the poor sickly dogs that have to be hand fed just to live) and lable them as "Tea Cup" (NO SUCH BREED)! What the breeders fail to tell you is most of these dogs have major health issues costing thousands a year in vet bills. Yet they sell these dogs for twice the price. Its "CUTE" it's also inhumane and creating a very unhealthy trend!
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