#spider face

Tsuchigomori a.k.a emo spider sensei from TBHK 

I LOVE the colors for this series and decided to try it out with my own style and yes, spider sensei is my favourite!

And then there is THIS: the tallest building in Yaoundé and in Cameroon, the Bank of Central African States (BEAC), headquarters of the regional multinational monetary union. An astonishing exemplar of 1970s modernist expressionism, this palatial skyscraper’s stylish, angular geometry begins immediately with the cement-chevron shapes of the forecourt planters, to the jagged tinted-glass port-cochère, extending over the entryway formed by the plan of a bulky, spread-winged tower, sheathed in differing patterns of lavender-pink paneling and orange-bronze glazing.

This glittering mass culminates in an enormous hexagonal capital, overhanging the central façade and articulated with a row of large diamond-shaped windows like a humungous, metallic spider face.

Communicating equal parts the exuberant optimism of the region’s post-independence, petrol-fueled boom years, and the overwhelming authority of state supremacy, it’s one of a variation of central bank towers across West and Central Africa, manifest in a style quite unlike anything designed since that era or elsewhere in the world.