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Originally Posted by BVictor1
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yeah, I was thinking about this project sharing a lot of elements of certain contermporary Australian architects, of which I forgot their names. Jeanne talked so much about this project being as revolutionary as possible for a high-rise so I've held off on lumping her with them (although the similarities are obvious). I suppose if her inspiration was someone like Seidler, her innovation comes from breaking the sometimes stringent geometric forms of his work into something a bit more fluid and asymetrical (to be fair to Seidler, his designs sometimes were really fluid even with thick, heavy use of white concrete). I suppose so much of this buildings success (or failure) lies in the texture and light patterns the balconies produce.
I still see nothing spectacular about this project although it could be a very important project in terms of breaking with conventional residential high-rise design in the U.S. or Chicago in general. These types of projects can set the ball moving in radical and unique directions for many future projects. Also of note is that this is Studio Gang's first go at a highrise and considering the scale of it, it's pretty amazing that they've been able to do a fine job with it.
speaking of great australian residential designers/architects, there's a ton of them in the latest 10 x 10 (10 • 10_2 100 architects 10 critics) by Phaidon. Would recommend it to any contemporary architecture lover.