BIG Architects has been commissioned to build an observation tower in Phoenix, Arizona. The tower will, with its 740 feet, become a significant structure to the Phoenix skyline. The building is conceived as a tall tower with an open air spiral sphere at its top. Metaphorically it resembles a pin that marks the location on a map.

- Like the monsoons, the haboobs and the mountains of the surrounding Arizonian landscape, the Pin becomes a point of reference and a mechanism to set the landscape in motion through the movement of the spectator. Like the Guggenheim museum of New York offers visitors a unique art experience descending around its central void, the motion at the Pin is turned inside-out allowing visitors to contemplate the surrounding city and landscape of Phoenix. Like a heavenly body hovering above the city the Pin will allow visitors to descend from pole to pole in a dynamic three dimensional experience seemingly suspended in midair, Bjarke Ingels, founding partner at BIG, says in a statement.

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Name: Phoenix Observation Tower
Type: Commission
Size: 70,000 square feet
Client: Novawest
Collaborators: MKA (structure), Atelier10 (sustainability), Gensler (local architect), TenEyck (landscape)
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Country: USA

Source: interiornews.com.