the "gangplank" balconies jutting out precariously from the upper floors caught my eye as I biked along the other side of the Bassin de la Villette - enough to make me stop to take a picture - and I immediately wanted to go up there and experience the vertigo of being out on those bold protrusions...the angled verticals of this structure as defined as well by the different colour applications [white and graphite grey on this façade, burnished red on the other side] provide a dynamic visual interest that attempts to reflect the Suprematist ideals of Malevich by which the architectural design's sculptural arrangements must express effecting aesthetic and emotional values...
in other words, height and bulk can be made to look appealing - and even playful to live in...just don't play crazy pirates way up there!
[known as "Totem" and "Tower of Flandres", this building was designed by Pascal Chombart de Lauwe and Jean Lamude of TECTONE in 1996,
27-29, avenue de Flandre et 6, rue du Maroc (19th)]
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I wonder if the upper floors cost more to rent, given the balconies have views in more directions than the lower floors ?
Just from a purely practical point of view, it's a little hard to read the white text against the light colored plastic in the new header ? But it does make one wonder what was going on there...
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