Guangzhou Twins-Tower | Herve Tordjman Architecte Associes

My project is like the emergence of the city itself. Synthesis of vastness and smoothness, my project expresses itself like the resultant of a global and contextual analysis carried by the aesthetics of the detail. One of my first memories of China is in Beijing, on Tian Men Place. Facing the huge portrait of Mao standing at the entrance of the Forbidden City, myriads of kites are curving with the liking of the wind. People of all ages are playing with those flying objects. Here the millennium People has the appearance of a child. The comparison between a kite and a structural building is obvious, almost emotional, and the relationship of structural fragility is globally the same. The reed bends, not breaks … and that is the question for an engineer looking for a new shape … The idea of the twisted towers appeared in that context. Inspired by the swirls of Tian Men Place, the project was designed like a DNA from which the 2 helicoidal strings have been separated and placed at 90° one from the other. Here the theme of the Twins exposes itself by dissimilarity, and appears like a harmonic drawing.