Curvy Tower to Help Remake Town Near Toronto

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Curvy Tower to Help Remake Town Near Toronto

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2006 / April 12

"Marilyn Monroe"

A twisting and undulating tower designed by Beijing-based MAD Architectural Design Studio has won a competition for a 50-story condominium in Mississauga, Ontario, a fairly nondescript town on Toronto's western flank, whose population is about 700,000. A nine-member panel of architects, urban planners and urban design experts, as well as 6,000 ballot-casting residents, chose the winning design. The still-unnamed $114 million concrete-and-glass condo promises to be one of Canada's most adventurous-looking buildings. This is ironic for a city whose main architectural credits are its aging civic and performing arts centers, central library and the Pearson International Airport. Mississauga was a low-rise bedroom community for Toronto, but recently began sprouting office towers, businesses, industrial parks and high-rise condos.

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