Even though that particular creative style sounds incredibly difficult and stressful, it wasn’t the most difficult part for the builder. “The design process took quite a while,” Wonder says, “and included very little planning and lots of changes here and there to get the colouring right.” Some elements of the build changed completely as the two months it took to make it went on: “the colour palette was something entirely different from the start, but as I went along I perfected it more and more, until I was happy with the outcome.”
But it wasn’t just the colouring that proved difficult. “ [The colouring was] probably the most ambitious,” says Wonder, “but as far as building goes, the left structure turned out to be quite a headache due to the fact that I wasn't happy with how it kept turning out.”
Given that the renders of Providence are inconsistent about which side the piece is viewed from, it’s not entirely clear whether Wonder struggled with the circular green building, or the one that looks more like an unfurling flower (which Wonder describes as “curved plant thingies”), but either way, both are detailed, dramatic, and eye-catching - even if they both look like they might cost millions in rent.
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