Comments on: Absolute Towers by MAD http://www.dezeen.com/2012/12/12/absolute-towers-by-mad/ architecture and design magazine Sun, 19 May 2013 19:30:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: amsam http://www.dezeen.com/2012/12/12/absolute-towers-by-mad/comment-page-1/#comment-1065833 amsam Sun, 23 Dec 2012 07:53:00 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=275078#comment-1065833 Okay, the apartments are tiny, but that brief is set by the developer, not the architect! Come on, obviously MAD would have preferred to put one fabulous deluxe apartment -- or even four - per floor. But if the developers did the maths and decided the best way to make their dime back on two towers in godforsaken suburban Toronto was to sell ten tiny closets per floor, be it on their heads, not the project architects. I'm happy that poor Ontario finally has some curves. Okay, the apartments are tiny, but that brief is set by the developer, not the architect! Come on, obviously MAD would have preferred to put one fabulous deluxe apartment — or even four – per floor. But if the developers did the maths and decided the best way to make their dime back on two towers in godforsaken suburban Toronto was to sell ten tiny closets per floor, be it on their heads, not the project architects. I’m happy that poor Ontario finally has some curves.

]]> By: amsam http://www.dezeen.com/2012/12/12/absolute-towers-by-mad/comment-page-1/#comment-1065827 amsam Sun, 23 Dec 2012 07:44:00 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=275078#comment-1065827 No shortage of those. No shortage of those.

]]> By: noyz http://www.dezeen.com/2012/12/12/absolute-towers-by-mad/comment-page-1/#comment-1057825 noyz Mon, 17 Dec 2012 03:23:00 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=275078#comment-1057825 Has anyone noticed that at the higher part of the towers (with 150m and 170m) you have great possibilities of being sucked and blown off by winds when going out to that failure of communal balcony? The plans are MAD! Ten apartments per floor, and living rooms less than 3m wide and full of doors! They have mended this "minor" issue by not drawing furniture to see if they can deceive any possible buyers. Well, you can always look at your flat from the outside and say "what a cool form I live in!" Has anyone noticed that at the higher part of the towers (with 150m and 170m) you have great possibilities of being sucked and blown off by winds when going out to that failure of communal balcony? The plans are MAD! Ten apartments per floor, and living rooms less than 3m wide and full of doors! They have mended this “minor” issue by not drawing furniture to see if they can deceive any possible buyers. Well, you can always look at your flat from the outside and say “what a cool form I live in!”

]]> By: Bryan http://www.dezeen.com/2012/12/12/absolute-towers-by-mad/comment-page-1/#comment-1058028 Bryan Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:06:10 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=275078#comment-1058028 <a href="http://www.absolutecondos.com/video.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.absolutecondos.com/video.htm</a> http://www.absolutecondos.com/video.htm

]]> By: ysc http://www.dezeen.com/2012/12/12/absolute-towers-by-mad/comment-page-1/#comment-1056975 ysc Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:13:00 +0000 http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=275078#comment-1056975 “Lots of cities like this are happening in China, just repeating the modern urban typology and always making square towers,” added Yansong. “We were thinking; how about reversing that? So we don’t treat architecture as a product, or an artificial volume or space. It’s more like a landscape.” They are just doing exactly the same as those happening in China, a typical form for form's sake building, with "wow" effect. I guess the people living inside would never realize the plan is "rotated" at all. And its form is not really attractive or stunning. What is the merit of this kind of project? It look really SAD but not MAD. “Lots of cities like this are happening in China, just repeating the modern urban typology and always making square towers,” added Yansong. “We were thinking; how about reversing that? So we don’t treat architecture as a product, or an artificial volume or space. It’s more like a landscape.”

They are just doing exactly the same as those happening in China, a typical form for form’s sake building, with “wow” effect. I guess the people living inside would never realize the plan is “rotated” at all. And its form is not really attractive or stunning. What is the merit of this kind of project? It look really SAD but not MAD.

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