For A Wet And Steamy Metropolis, A Dissolving Skyscraper

“It is impossible to compete with Bangkok’s existing exotic menagerie of skyscrapers, so [architect Ole] Scheeren proposes a monolith, an un-twin tower, the dumb, extruded box of modernist orthodoxy – but then begins to erode its perfection. It is as if a computer virus has begun to eat away at an image, pixellating it, or as if a tower of sugar cubes is dissolving away.”