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Image features a drawing of a tall, obelisk-shaped tower with many floors of arched windows illuminating the structure. In front of the building, is a curved plaza lined with trees and dotted with small figures and a pool of water in the foreground. There are additional buildings and trees in the background. Please scroll down to read the blog post about this object.
Indiana Tower: An Unrealized Monument
Today’s blog post was originally published on November 29, 2017. César Pelli passed away on July 19th, 2019. In addition to creating models, architects often think through the planning stages of a building’s design by producing detailed, hyper-realistic drawings. While they may lack technical notations denoting dimensions or materials, these drawings provide an overall sense...
Image features a drawing of a tall, obelisk-shaped tower with many floors of arched windows illuminating the structure. In front of the building, is a curved plaza lined with trees and dotted with small figures and a pool of water in the foreground. There are additional buildings and trees in the background. Please scroll down to read the blog post about this object.
Indiana Tower: An Unrealized Monument
In addition to creating models, architects often think through the planning stages of a building’s design by producing detailed, hyper-realistic drawings. While they may lack technical notations denoting dimensions or materials, these drawings provide an overall sense of the future building’s design. This 1981 charcoal and graphite rendering by Argentine-born architect Cesar Pelli depicts the...