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Canton Tower  

Canton Tower

Yi Yuan Nan Lu, Haizhu Qu, Guangzhou Shi, China

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Canton Tower

Yi Yuan Nan Lu, Haizhu Qu, Guangzhou Shi, China

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Type
Cultural
YEAR
2010
SIZE
1,000,000 +
BUDGET
$100M +
World's Tallest TV tower
The Canton Tower  610 m is the world's tallest TV & Sightseeing Tower.  In China, it's fluid shape has earned it the nickname; "'Supermodel"". Where most skyscrapers seem to be about strenght, heavyness, being angular in shape, based on the logic of Modernism's repetitiveness, the  ""Female"" tower aims to be gratious, tansparent, complex, suprising, ambiguous, curvateous, or simply sexy.
Biological intelligence
At the same time the form was never a fixed objective, it was generated by a process of assumulating information. Structure, logistics, sp[ace, easthetics, functionality, maintanance have all informed the buildings volume and structure. Bit by bit the initial concept grew into a mature form.  Information based Architecture is what we are and we believe in an architecture that can be compared with the planting of a seed, that grows during the process of design into the end-product. 
Integration of Structure
It's structure consists of 1104 prefabricated nodes none of which is the same , the tower's complexity combined with its height  makes building it one of world's biggest achievements.

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