Week 9 Alsop Architects’ Sharp Center

This article portrayed Alsop Architects’ Sharp Center’s unique design style. Alsop Architects’ Sharp Center, which located in Toronto, is regarded as one of the most recognizable structures in Toronto, Canada.

To make article more attractive, the writer described the reputation of the new centre at the first paragraph. As he portrayed, the new centre “provides 115,000sqft of new space for the country’s most prestigious art college in a landmark building designed to unify the existing site and accommodate a 50% increase in student numbers. It also forms a centerpiece for an already hip area just north of the commercial centre of Toronto.”

Then the writer presented the details of this building. In terms of its interior, the building has “a new three-storey Great Hall and a four-storey entrance lobby in the original brick building.” He also described its exterior as “a translucent rectangle on stilts, 26m above street level, with pods slung underneath it and light chimneys on top”. Moreover, the writer was also good at utilizing quotes and comments to describe his protagonist in the article. For instance, he cited Alsop’s quotes that The Sharp Center was “Slightly removed from the world.” in the second paragraph.

After that the writer described the function and structure of The Sharp Center. Finally, Kieran presented the tremendous changes that the building has brought to Toronto，which is “put Toronto on the contemporary architecture map”. The writer also used Jamie Wright, partner of Robbie Young & Wright’s quotes to state that Toronto need more contemporary architecture nowadays.

Links:http://www.iconeye.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=332:icon 014&id=2708:ontario-college-of-art-and-design--icon-014--julyaugust-2004