When Lucien Lagrange looks at the rendering for his new X/O Condominiums high-rise in the South Loop, he thinks of the famous Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon. So much so, that the marketing folks are thinking of using the iconic album in advertisments for the condo building. Yo just spent an hour chatting with the always entertaining Parisian-born starchitect. Why Pink Floyd?
The key, for Lagrange, is the movement and the tempo of the album. “Twenty years ago I was blasting the music through my headphones – I’ve got The Wall, too,” Lagrange tells Yo. “It’s very exciting.” The two towers: “Come together and when you look further up they come apart,” Lagrange says. “It’s like dancing a tango. You have your hand on the back of the woman, then your torso moves away, you link hips, there is sexual tension and it’s moving forth and back, and that’s why we have created those two towers. There is a dialogue, something happening with the two towers. It’s very poetic, the composition. They are clad in glass, they are going to reflect the sky in their skin. The skin is very sensual in a way. It’s like it’s a dress.”