Wednesday, March 6, 2013
" New York firm Steven Holl Architects has completed the Sliced Porosity Block, a cluster of five towers around a public plaza in Chengdu, China...
The buildings, designed by Steven Holl in 2007, were conceived as an alternative to the "towers and podium" approach commonly adopted for large mixed-use developments. Instead, the five towers were imagined as an integrated complex, with a central public space that wraps up over a shopping centre...
Light passes between the buildings through "sliced" openings and recesses, plus three large voids provide entrance pavilions that lead inside the complex..." to find out more...
Images & passage via Dezeen
Labels: high-rise, mix-development, texture/facade
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