image via Burnside Blog
Yes, please. This undulating beauty is the new Skylab-designed tower destined for 1300 W Burnside, according to Mike Thelin over at the Burnside Blog. This design is 27% more interesting, even, than the original tower that was to be much taller with condo/hotel/etceteras.
The static made dynamic, it is Bucky Fuller meets Antonio Gaudi. Jutting its chin into the Future, it is hope-full like the earliest skyscrapers embodying the ambitions and Great Ideas of the City and its people. Yes, design has to work, but we appreciate design that generates an emotional response.
(And we’ll only chock a fraction of our feelings for the design up to the fact that the street-level perspective of the rendering makes it feel even more awesome (and we’re, for once, using the word more or less correctly) here).
Tags: architecture, art, art, portland, skylab