Posted on 01/25/2021 12:41:01 AM PST by nickcarraway
A Turkey-based architecture firm is proposing some big changes to the New York City skyline.
The Sarcostyle Tower, designed by Hayri Atak Architectural Design, looks like no skyscraper on the face of the planet, with its curved, sloping design and sinuous curves.
“Sarcostyle” is a filament that makes up striated muscle fiber, and it’s easy to see where the building gets its name, given its anatomically inspired form.
Seesaws at U.S.-Mexico border win prestigious UK design prize According to Atak, one of the “impressive” effects of the building is “that it creates an image in the mind that is tangent to all of the other neighboring structures but does not exactly resemble them.”
It’s this foray into the uncanny that makes the design so unique.
“It has a transparent, ghostly stance in the city skyline,” Atak mused.
While there’s no plans yet to build the Sarcostyle on the Manhattan waterfront, just the renderings are enough to inspire awe.
If you think this is freaky, check out the marina district in Dubai.
Hey -- do you know about the Aztec war whistles? They make a sound like a soul being tortured in hell. An awful screaming sound that cuts right through you. The Aztecs blew these whistles as a war tactic to frighten the enemy.
Wouldn't it be great if we build sky scrapers that sounded like that when the wind blew?
I used to refer to the contest to build the tallest building a form of architectural penis envy. So I’ll call this one a structure that will begin another ongoing process we will call architectural twisted penis envy.
I believe in the old adage that in nature form follows function and if it looks great it is not from trying to be artistic, it is just that form follows function beautifully.
The type of structure proposed is all ego, just so that the designer can say “see, it can be done”, but why, for what need, and what basic general purpose have no part in the matter.
Also, how do you cross from one side to the other? You'd have to go all the way down (or up) to get to the other side. DUMB!
It’s like a baby rattle for King Kong. Just grab it around one of those open parts in the middle.
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