los angeles CALIFORNIA
Sci-ARC
Critic: Florencia PITA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Ozan CICEK and Julia PIKE: Projects for the LA Metro office tower in Downtown Los Angeles designed by transforming 3D scanned façade extracts into a series of curio objects.
- Ozan CICEK and Julia PIKE, “LA Metro Office Tower.”, Model Photo
- Ozan CICEK and Julia PIKE, “LA Metro Office Tower.”, Model Photo
- Ozan CICEK and Julia PIKE, “LA Metro Office Tower.”, Plan
- Gregory KOKKOTIS and Philip HOOD, “LA Metro Office Tower.”, Model Photo
Diverse formal features, materialities and textures comprise the new highrise building and simultaneously suggest that they are extractions from the adjacent context. These acts of architectural duplicity begin to cut through the assumed real and conjure the possibilities of the make-believe.
