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Absolute World South rendering

Absolute World in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada is part of a development that includes 5 highrise condominum towers[1]. The local authorities and principal builders (Fernbrook Homes and Cityzen Development Group) had introduced the Absolute Design Ideas Competition to design a 50-62 story building for the Absolute World South Tower (called 'Absolute Tower' during the selection period) which is the 4th tower in the complex. The international design competition received over 90 submissions from 70 countries around the world. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Image File history File links Applications-development. ... Motto: Pride in our past, Faith in our future Coordinates: Country Canada Province Ontario Region Peel Established 1974 City Mayor Hazel McCallion Governing Body Mississauga City Council MPs Navdeep Singh Bains, Albina Guarnieri, Wajid Khan, Omar Alghabra, Paul Szabo MLAs Bob Delaney, Vic Dhillon, Peter Fonseca, Tim Peterson, Harinder Takhar... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages English (French has some legal status but is not fully co-official) Flower White Trillium Tree Eastern White Pine Bird Common Loon Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty... A condominium in Gurgaon, India A condominium, or condo for short, is a form of housing tenure. ...

Absolute World South

Construction of the 56 story Absolute World will start in the spring of 2007 and is scheduled for completion in 2009. It will be the tallest building in Mississauga. It was designed by Yansong Ma (a Yale alumnus), founder of the Beijing architectural design firm MAD Studio. The building design rotates 360 degrees from bottom to top. It was instantly dubbed the "Marilyn Monroe building", and is also known as the "360 degree tower". The design of the Absolute Tower is similar to the Turning Torso in Malmö, Sweden. It has received a great deal of support from the media and public. 2007 (MMVII) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2009 (MMIX) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Motto: Pride in our past, Faith in our future Coordinates: Country Canada Province Ontario Region Peel Established 1974 City Mayor Hazel McCallion Governing Body Mississauga City Council MPs Navdeep Singh Bains, Albina Guarnieri, Wajid Khan, Omar Alghabra, Paul Szabo MLAs Bob Delaney, Vic Dhillon, Peter Fonseca, Tim Peterson, Harinder Takhar... Yale can refer to an educational institution: Yale University, one of the United States oldest universities. ... Beijing [English Pronunciation] (Chinese: 北京 [Chinese Pronunciation]; Pinyin: BÄ›ijÄ«ng; IPA: ), a city in northern China, is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... The Parthenon on top of the Acropolis, Athens, Greece Architecture (from Latin, architectura and ultimately from Greek, αρχιτεκτων, a master builder, from αρχι- chief, leader and τεκτων, builder, carpenter) is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. ... HSB Turning Torso is a skyscraper in Malmö, Sweden on the Swedish side of the Oresund strait. ... View over Malmö IPA: /málmø:/ is the third largest city in Sweden, situated in the southernmost province of SkÃ¥ne. ...

Yansong Ma was helped by Yosuke Hayano (of Waseda University) and assisted by younger designers Shen Huihui, Dang Qun and Shen Jun. Waseda University (Japanese: 早稲田大学, Waseda Daigaku; often abbreviated to 早大, Sōdai) is a private university in Japan, known for the liberal culture symbolized by its motto Independence of learning. It is often compared with Keio University. ...

Finalists

On January 30, 2006 six finalists [2] were selected and the honorary mentions [3] were given to 7 other designs. The public was allowed to vote online for their favourite design.

Winner

The winner of the competition was announced at a news conference at the top of the CN Tower in Toronto, on March 28, 2006. The MAD office's design won. The CN Tower, at 553. ...

Absolute World North

Due to overwhelming success of the first building, Fernbrook announced that a second 50 story would be built as the fifth and final tower of the development. Unlike the South tower, which gets thinner in the middle as it rises, Absolute North will instead get larger in the middle, which has resulted in some members of the public calling them the "condo couple" with the South Tower being the sexy female and the northern tower being the paunched man [4].

References

• The Press Release
• The Toronto Star article

External links

• Official Site
• Competition website
• Emporis Listing
• Skyscrapernews article on the building
• Review of Building