Odile Decq has revealed visuals of a tower wrapped with sinuous red and white balconies in Barcelona, Spain, which will be her first residential tower.
Designed by the French architect's eponymous firm Studio Odile Decq for a site beside the Telefonica tower by EMBA, the 28-storey Antares will contain 89 luxury apartments.
Its undulating form created by the envelope of balconies is intended to be "a distinctive architectural statement", while complementing the organic forms of some of the city's most notable buildings.

"Barcelona has never been for me a strictly rationalist city. It has a colourful baroque soul with a deep history in art and architecture," Decq said. "Organic forms are ingrained in the architecture of the city," she told Dezeen. "This fluid impression adds to the city's dynamic skyline while still being well proportioned and sophisticated. The form is not overly dramatic, it doesn't scream for attention, but you know when something is special. It just looks right."

Once complete, the top levels of Antares will be red. Red was chosen by Decq as it "is the representative colour of Barcelona and also "representative of [her] energy and passion in architecture".
It will also subtlety decrease in width with each storey using the method of entasis. Commonly seen in Greek architecture, entasis is a visual trick that was used to make the shafts of columns appear straight.
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