Architecture + Design: The ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower
Posted by the editors on Wednesday, 4 January 2012
Architecture + Design: The ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower: “..The name of the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower is a real mouthful, a hybrid title for a mongrel artwork. The contorted steel “sculpture-cum-tower-cum-engineering feat,” in the inelegant phrase of Tate director Nicholas Serota, is the totem of our Olympic games, rising more than 375 feet out of the central plaza of the park, on former light industrial land..” Rather scathing observation of London’s new Orbit Tower..
image + article: Architect Magazine
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