deedsdesign

I couldn’t find a good photo of this lovely pair of buildings  that I’m allowed to repost here, but there are a lot available on the internet if you search for “Marilyn Monroe Towers” or “Absolute Towers Mississauga” The website of the architect has a peculiar description of the design concept:

In my opinion these curving shapes are beautiful and that is all the explanation that they really need. These two paragraphs on the website get more to the point:

“The building is sculpture-like in its overall effect, and its design expresses the universal language of audacity, sensuality and romance. As the new landmark of the city of Mississauga, it will become the icon of the present landscape with all its twisting rhythms resembling the human body.

In our design, the continuous balcony surrounds the whole building, eliminating the vertical lines used in traditional high rise architecture to emphasize the height. The entire building rotates by different degrees at different level, which corresponds with sceneries at different height. Our aim is to evoke the city dwellers’ aspiration for nature, and get them in touch with the sunlight and the wind.”

If I travel to Mississauga I will take some pictures to post here, but here is an artistic flicker photo of the buildings under construction:

This NYT photo captures the synergistic curves:

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Route 128 in Booneville

The friendly, skilled bronze artist owner greeted me at the door. We got to chatting and he explained to me that his son was the architect for the building. His son had insisted on adding a few south-facing windows to the side wings of the gallery.  I think his son should have tried a bit harder for a nice window on the southern end of the central space, but  I guess that might not have been ideal for viewing paintings. They ought to put something on the blank wall. A large bronze relief sculpture perhaps? A bright colored sign?

The rustic entry details

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