Although shocking and daring, the building's design is relatively simple and straightforward. A two-story box, housing studios and offices, is raised above a triple-height entry that reuses an old, yet fairly nondescript, existing building. The painted steel, tapered-tube structure leans out to accommodate this lower part, the concrete core and a service incline the only other parts of the composition. So the design is made up of five parts, though their relationship to each other and the norm is what gives the building its shock value.

Sharp Centre for Design.Toronto, Ontario