and as this building caught me eye here it is,
photographs Laurian Ghinitoiu, it almost looks impossible, but it is real, Danish architecture studio BIG has unveiled the
155-meter-high Vancouver House skyscraper in Canada that twists upwards from a
triangular base, there is a reason for this,
this distinctive form is designed to ensure the structure is
set back 30 meters from the bridge at its base and to avoid overshadowing a
local park, the studio said, BIG founding partner Bjarke Ingels likened this to
the constraints that led to the Flatiron building in New York, "The Vancouver house is a contemporary descendent of
the Flatiron building in New York City reclaiming the lost spaces for living as
the tower escapes the noise and traffic at its base," said Ingels, "In
the tradition of Flatiron the Vancouver House architecture is not the result of
formal excess or architectural idiosyncrasies but rather a child of its
circumstances. The trisected site and concerns for neighbouring buildings and
park spaces."
the 52-storey skyscraper rises from a podium as its base,
which contains a gym and daycare and pool, above the podium, the
60,600-square-metre skyscraper has a triangular plan that grows into a
rectangular form on its upper levels, "Vancouver House emerges subtly from
the ground and expands as it rises, appearing like a genie let out of the
bottle," said the studio,
on its east and west facades, the skyscraper has a gridded
appearance created by the regularly spaced balconies, while the underside of
its overhang features box-shaped balconies, BIG hopes that the project, along
with the creation of several art spaces below the neighbouring underpass, will
serve as a blueprint for developing constrained sites in cities,
would I like to live there? no, as it happens, I just thought the design of the building looked so impossible, but there it is.
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