Chinese architecture firm MAD has finally finished the Absolute Towers in Canada after six years of planning and construction. The two towers stand at 492 and 557 feet. Apartments are located on each oval shaped floor, and th levels are rotated gradually. According to MAD founder Ma Yansong on the Absolute Towers:
The concept of the tower at the beginning was very simple. We just wanted to make something organic but different, more natural and more soft and not something too strong that would remind people of money or power. Lots of cities like this are happening in China, just repeating the modern urban typology and always making square towers. We were thinking; how about reversing that? So we don't treat architecture as a product, or an artificial volume or space. It's more like a landscape.
Design Boom, via Dezeen