Melbourne beyonce building shelter

She’s won armloads of Grammies and become one of pop culture’s most influential figures. But soon, writes The Australian’s Kylar Loussikian, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter will have another accomplishment to call her own: her body has inspired a skyscraper that is currently being built in Melbourne, Australia.

The 741-foot, rippling structure will be known as the Premier Tower, writes Loussikian.

He reports that its architects found inspiration in the singer’s writhing, stocking-clad body in the video for her single “Ghost.”

Elenberg Fraser, the architecture firm behind the building, says on their website that the building will actually be “less than meets the eye.” They visualize a twisting, iconic building that draws on a vertical cantilever concept to redistribute the building’s weight over a challenging site.

To create their design, the architects used a “parametric modeling” system in which a structure’s dimensions dicta Beyonce building Melbourne: Premier Tower based on singer’s ...

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