Absolute World 4 & 5 (Marilyn Monroe Towers)

By Fernbrook Homes and Cityzen
60 Absolute Avenue, Mississauga, ON, Canada
  • 21322
  • Property ID
  • Resale
  • Property Type
  • Mississauga
  • Area/City
  • 200705
  • Launch time
  • Complete
  • Construction Status
  • 56/50
  • Number of Stories
  • 427/457
  • Number of Units

Details

Updated on January 12, 2024 at 11:00 am
    • Project Name: Absolute World 4 & 5 (Marilyn Monroe Towers)
    • Address: 60 Absolute Avenue, Mississauga, ON, Canada
    • Intersection: Hurontario St & Burnhamthorpe Rd W
    • Area/City: Mississauga
    • Neighborhood: City Center
    • Interior Designer(s): Sigmund Soudack & Associates Inc
    • Number of Stories: 56/50
    • Number of Units: 427/457
    • Construction Start Date: 2007
    • Developer(s)/Builder(s): Fernbrook Homes and Cityzen
    • Launch time: 200705
    • Estimate Occupancy: 2012
    • Architect(s): MAD ARCHITECTS & BURKA VARACALLI ARCHITECTS
    • Building Type: high-rise Condo
    • Number of Buildings: 2
    • Selling Status: Sold out
    • Construction Status: Complete
    • Size Range(Sft): 60 Absolute Ave : 545 - 3424 sft; 50 Absolute: 457-1,785 sqft

Description

Absolute World 4 & 5 is a residential condominium twin tower skyscraper complex in the five-tower Absolute City Centre development in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The project was built by Fernbrook Homes and Cityzen Development Group. With the first three towers completed (Absolute City Centre 1 and 2 and Absolute Vision), the last two towers (Absolute World 4 and 5) were topped off at 50 and 56 storeys.

“Going beyond the functional logic of modernism, the design expresses the complex and multiple needs of contemporary society. Despite its landmark status, it emphasis the experience from different angles rather than its height: every floor rotates slightly from the one below in correspondence with the surrounding scenery, creating an ever-changing profile and play of shades.”

Born of an international design competition, nicknamed the ‘Marilyn Monroe towers’, Absolute City Centre is one of the most iconic buildings in the Greater Toronto Area. Made of concrete, steel and glass reality, the towers’ slinky sinuous profile was the vision of world-famous Chinese architect, Yansong Ma., A highly visible symbol of one of Ontario’s most successful communities, Absolute sits at the corner of Hurontario Street and Burnhamthorpe Road, in the very heart of Mississauga. With 1,800 suites in five towers, 40,000-square-foot recreation centre, it’s the largest of its kind ever created by a private developer.

n 2004, an international design competition was held to select the architect for the fourth tower for Absolute World. Yansong Ma, founder of the MAD office, Beijing/China architectural design firm was announced the winner. Sales were to start in May 2007 with construction beginning later that year, and anticipated completion in 2009. Within days of the announcement, the taller building had been nicknamed the ”Marilyn Monroe” tower due to its curvaceous, hourglass figure likened to actress Marilyn Monroe.Burka Varacalli Architects, a Toronto firm, was hired as MAD’s local partner in April 2007.

On June 14, 2012, the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), a non-profit group of architects and engineers, reported that the towers were among the world’s best new skyscrapers. The building would also win the Emporis Skyscraper Award in 2012.

The larger of the two towers twists 209 degrees from the base to the top, making it very similar to Turning Torso in Malmö, Sweden. The structural design was done by Sigmund Soudack & Associates Inc, a Toronto-based structural engineering firm. The tower has six levels of underground parking.

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