Tornado Tower Whisks You Away to the Opera


	Tornado Tower Whisks You Away to the Opera
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7-9-2009 5:41 AM
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7-9-2009 8:55 PM
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<P><IMG width="500" height="353" alt="visiondivision tornado 1 Tornado tower | Visiondivision collaboration with Markus Wagner" src="http://plusmood.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/visiondivision_tornado_1.jpg" title="visiondivision_tornado_1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2465" />
<IMG width="500" height="281" alt="visiondivision tornado 2 Tornado tower | Visiondivision collaboration with Markus Wagner" src="http://plusmood.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/visiondivision_tornado_2.jpg" title="visiondivision_tornado_2" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2466" /></p> <P>A young Sweden based architecture firm <A target="_blank" href="http://www.visiondivision.com/"><STRONG>Visiondivision</STRONG></A> believes in strong concepts and constantly re-investigating their role as architects by always pushing the limits of their field of work and the strategies of their design. <STRONG>Tornado</STRONG>, is an entry for an opera competition in Taiwan which was a collaboration with <STRONG><A target="_blank" href="http://www.svenskstandard.org/">Markus Wagner</A></STRONG>, a member of Svensk Standard.</P></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://plusmood.com/2009/03/tornado-tower-visiondivision-collaboration-with-markus-wagner/"><P>One of the positive aspects of raising the building is that it creates a generous public space around it. The square slopes gently towards the entrance, surrounded by pearls, the visitors descends fadingly into the building like entering an ocean.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://plusmood.com/2009/03/tornado-tower-visiondivision-collaboration-with-markus-wagner/"><P>A great spiral of pearls is the main focal point of the entrance hall, you can either take the elevator through it or the ramp around it, by foot or with the VIP Train of pearls, taking you all the way into the Grand Theater.</p> <P><IMG width="500" height="291" alt="visiondivision tornado 7 Tornado tower | Visiondivision collaboration with Markus Wagner" src="http://plusmood.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/visiondivision_tornado_7.jpg" title="visiondivision_tornado_7" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2469" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://plusmood.com/2009/03/tornado-tower-visiondivision-collaboration-with-markus-wagner/">The Grand theater is embedded in pearls</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://plusmood.com/2009/03/tornado-tower-visiondivision-collaboration-with-markus-wagner/"><P>.</p> <P><IMG width="500" height="347" alt="visiondivision tornado foyer Tornado tower | Visiondivision collaboration with Markus Wagner" src="http://plusmood.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/visiondivision_tornado_foyer.jpg" title="visiondivision_tornado_foyer" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2470" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://plusmood.com/2009/03/tornado-tower-visiondivision-collaboration-with-markus-wagner/">A chandelier of pearls in the middle of the theater drops seamlessly from the roof</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://plusmood.com/2009/03/tornado-tower-visiondivision-collaboration-with-markus-wagner/"><P></p> <P><IMG width="500" height="354" alt="visiondivision tornado wind diagram Tornado tower | Visiondivision collaboration with Markus Wagner" src="http://plusmood.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/visiondivision_tornado_wind_diagram.jpg" title="visiondivision_tornado_wind_diagram" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2476" /></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://plusmood.com/2009/03/tornado-tower-visiondivision-collaboration-with-markus-wagner/"><DT class="gallery-icon">
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