I saw the model for Steven Holl’s Sliced Porosity Block some time in 2009 and was delighted. A rigid structure that conforms to organic influence (i believe in this case its light that is carving the block) feels twenty-first century, adaptive. I also find something comical about the way Holl is rendering skyscraper like structures. The horizontal and parallel lines that frame the sky scraper are emphasized. They achieve a cartoon-like thickness as if its the fantasy version of a skyscraper, an Asian influenced spin on the New York classic model. I don’t know if any of that is intended but I enjoy it.
(via Arch Daily )