It is not a good week to mention Dubai – or Nakheel. This image, taken from Nakheel’s website
shows a residential and hotel building that Atkins designed in 2006 for the end of Dubai Promenade. Whist many buildings in Dubai saw originality as lending new skin to conventional lattices of columns and slabs, this proposal fits the same into a never-before-realised shape that also happens to be a known shape around since the time of Plato – a torus. Some may think this building unoriginal because of that, but others (like me) may claim that it is precisely this use of a known but hitherto unused geometric primitive that makes it original.
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