Twin towers and a cloud, twin towers and a cloud. Even the angle. Ugh.
If you thought Post Modernism via Michael Graves was bad architecture that made no effort to create anything new while overstating a sense of power and foundation, check this project out. Located in Seoul, Korea and designed by the Dutch firm MVRDV, two twin towers - one 54 stories high, one 60 stories become connected midway by a "cloud". The "cloud" is an interconnecting structure that is supposed to serve as an multi-use atrium that subs as a gathering place, the heart of the towers if you will.
The slight problem with this project isn't the functionality -- I studied Architecture, almost graduated from it as a matter of fact and the idea, conceptually reminiscent of Habitat67, an apartment complex built in the late 1960s in Montreal, Canada -- and I'm all out for interconnecting spaces and hive modulars in elevated spaces, and well, let's face it, if they have a couple of leather bars where I can unwind by throwing all my rage unto a willing sub and half an hour later emerge, fulfilled, and direct myself to a jazz bar to chat a spell with friends, I'd get jiggy with it.
The problem is . . . from the outside, this is the very vision of Post 9-11 anything, Slapping me in the face. An eternal moment, standing there, staring at me. So beautiful, yet a mute reminder. Oh, well.
Habitat67. I would do anything to live here.
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