Absolute Towers

These residential towers received an award from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat as the best new tall building in the Americas.

For the design team, cities have become forests of steel and concrete in which nature steadily disappears, and future high-rises should bring a richer, more human complexity to the city. Instead of vertical lines, each floor is wrapped by a smooth, continuous balcony that widens views and encourages community on every level. Each floor also rotates slightly from the one below, so the towers twist as they rise like moving figures.