On the site at greater Noida where the Spire-tec tower is proposed to be built, stands an atrocity clad in white. This may as well be the perfect architectural example of the idiom, beauty is only skin deep.
The brief asked for a scheme that will unite the urban fabric with the rural textile in a manner so radical that it will become the centre of all happenings in future greater Noida. But all we get is white drapes and glazing plopped in the middle nowhere.
Spire-tec is an incongruent juxtaposition of the fluid and the rigid. (If the two were intended to be juxtaposed).An architecture so overly biased toward the visual stimulus, all the the others go un-noticed. The efficiency of the scheme takes a back seat.
The Overpowering scale, which might be a deliberation, shrinks the user into a mere ant in front of its anthill. An image of corporate power rather than that of the city centre. Exclusivity is clearly spelt out with semiotics. The white although gripping at first may tend to be a problem later on, not only for its maintenance but also as perceived by its users.
The use of voids on the surfaces is appropriate but this only textbook method design, nothing path breaking as it is advertised to be.
The architect has been elaborate in the translation of his vision, sparing no penny in the purse of the client. Very little has been achieved with a lot of effort.
Excessively utopian to survive reality, the building stands gleaming with its coat of white nearing completion. The architectural community must be flummoxed by the jury’s decision to erect this particular scheme.
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