Jerry Adamson designed special rotary-moulded polyethylene armchairs made specifically for this structure.
Jerry Adamson designed special rotary-moulded polyethylene armchairs made specifically for this structure. Ricardo Bofill's Kafka Castle strongly resembles this structure, and the construction technique used to design it inspired the similar-looking Nakagin Capsule Tower. August Komendant supervised the structural engineering of this project, whose original proposal also included shopping centers and schools and was outlined in the college (*) thesis "A Case for City Living." Interlocking walkways and terraces on top of buildings were part of a plan for this complex, in which each roof provides another unit's garden. This structure was built for an event whose motto was "Man and His World," and consists of 354 identical, 90-ton, pre-fabricated "boxes" that were assembled nearby the St. Lawrence River. For 10 points, name this residential community designed for the Montreal World Expo, a housing project which started the career of Moshe Safdie.
Jerry Adamson designed special rotary-moulded polyethylene armchairs made specifically for this structure.
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