Miami’s condominium architecture is evolving, says Bjarke Ingels. After experimenting with the splitting and cracking of buildings in Fort Lauderdale, Ingels and his Danish design practice BIG have unveiled a pair of twisting residential towers in Coconut Grove, Miami. The designs, according to Ingels, pay respect to the “brise soleil style balcony shading with floor-to-ceiling windows” that has become a defining feature of Miami’s indigenous architecture, reports BDOnline. Now, Ingels and his firm are looking to enhance those coveted panoramic waterfront views by taking the beloved condominium high-rise and torquing it. And doing that twice. The two-tower scheme exhibits a signature BIG play on typologies, putting forth another cheeky formal distortion of a codified construction. With an easily legible design objective, the Coconut Grove towers wear their punch lines on their sleeves.
Source: www.blogs.artinfo.com
