current selection | sting – if i ever lose my faith
feelin’ | friday-like
wow…the proposed freedom (aka: french) tower by daniel libeskind and david childs looks alot less ass than i had anticipated. i personally think highly of libeskind…and while his initial proposal was merely a suggested design approach, i took to its fragmented shard form. when it was rumoured that david childs was fucking up the design of the tower, i despaired a bit. i dont know many architects who ever remarked how david child’s/som’s designs were highly evocative and beautiful. thats akin to saying how microsoft makes pretty software. aka, never. but the proposed tower, with the childs-suggested wind-farm lattice at the top of the libeskind-inspired asymmetrical tower, actually de-solidifies the mass of the tower…making it almost dissolve into the sky. i kinda like this approach. theyll hopefully have a render up soon to give an indication of the material use of the tower…since all towers look swishy in plexi-model form. hmm…the renderings make it even more swish. woo.
> tower design (via ny times)
> daniel libeskind
> skidmore, owings, & merrill
