Towers

Source: 52weeks.rickyberkey.org

Fire Station #4, Columbus, Indiana, USA, 1967 designed by Robert Venturi

The building committee requested an ordinary building that was easy to maintain. Venturi’s design was a trapezoidal-shaped structure of cinderblock, red unglazed brick, white glazed brick and glass. The 37 foot hose drying tower located at front center provides a focal point to the otherwise low utilitarian building. Venturi made the sides and rear of the building as simple as possible and treated the front as if it were a sign. It briefly attracts your attention as you speed past on the busy road. Venturi has described buildings like this as “decorated sheds”, simple, even boring buildings that use signs or decorative elements to describe the function of the building. In this case the hose drying tower with the giant number on top, the white brick and the large flagpole in front convey a sense of civic importance to the building. It is meant to look like a fire station and not to convey any other image. -- 52 weeks of  Columbus, Indiana

Source: Bart van Hoek archdaily.com

Barneveld Noord, Harselaar, The Netherlands, 2013 designed by NL Architects

Three containers are ‘suspended’ in the air. Together they form a ‘roof’. One contains the installations, the other storage. The third will be opened at the bottom. It forms the headroom for the enclosed but fully transparent waiting area, creating a double high space. The fourth container is flipped to an upright position. It makes an instant tower. The tower contains a clock. And a wind vane. -- ArchDaily

Source: Ben Hosking archdaily.com

Royal Wolf, Sunshine VIC 3020, Australia, 2013 designed by Room11

.... two containers are placed on end, creating a high narrow void with skylight at the entry while functioning as a marker for signage within the flat terrain. -- ArchDaily