That's kind of turning me on. I think I want to fuck that building.

This, sir, can only be a hoax.

Charles wrote:


i simply prefer buildings with shapes that do not exist in nature. any old tree can twist like those towers. when a building has a shape that can only exist in theory, then it is supremely human. As Marx wrote in volume three of Das Capital: "[W]hat distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality."


The double-helix at once exists in theory and reality. It's an abstraction, an act of our imagination, a logical representation rather than a mimetic one. It's also the genetic/physio reality that seeds the abstraction and defines our human-ness. I think its architectural implementation is the urban teleological necessity of our times.

I think the plans for the elevator involve a duplication of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride...

Yeah, along Dave's line... how are the elevators going to work on that thing? Does Otis have a shaft that'll run smoothly through that crazy thing?

No hoax: http://www.archrecord.com/news/daily/archives/060412toronto.asp

This one's not a double helix - it's a slinky!

And as for erecting it in imagination first - that's the totalitarian impulse that seeks to force shape on a recalcitrant world - the Marxist impulse that by now has lead to the death of socialist revolution worldwide.

Start with those grassroots, man!

Ribbed for her pleasure.

There should be some sort of conscience-clause that will allow pharmacists (and coke dealers) to withhold drugs from architechts.

The closest thing I've seen to this building are similarly twisted blown-glass dildos.

Can you imagine what Christo could propose with a building like this???

Like all buildings, the elevators and other services will run up the center core. All the rest is limited only by the architect's imagination, and increasingly wide materials choices.

I remain fascinated that Charles seems to think he has some absolutist grasp on what good building design is.

What ever drugs that architect was on, I want some. I'm getting a contact high just looking at the drawing. I love it! It is at once phallic and curvy and trippy and sexy. It's beautiful. Technically, it would have been almost impossible to design or build as recently as 10 years ago. Why build another fucking box, when you can build this?

Somebody (Charles) has been too deep in the Ayn Rand again.

Charles Mudede is living proof that if you are in equal measures stupid, pretentious and egotistical -- someone might actually give you a public forum for your blatherings.

I adore Charles Mudede, even if I disagree with him, or don't know what the hell he's talking about half the time. His blatherings make my day.

I think I saw one of those at Toys in Babeland the other day...