I am totally intrigued by the skyscrapers of Atlanta and especially their surfaces. Although the outer shell of the buildings is truly pragmatic – windows! ledges! balconies! -, their reduced, sequential, minimalistic, and abstract structures have definitely a poetics about them. I tried to bring out those poetics by drawing on the postmodern art form of pop art. Enjoy!
Surface 1: Department of Labor
Surface 2: Peachtree Center
Surface 3: Atlanta Center
Surface 4: Marriott Hotel
[...] and I are totally inspired by the architecture around us (here, here, here, and here). We owe this fascination to one person: John Portman. John Portman, a graduate of Georgia [...]