Favorite+Architects

   **Ma Yansong is Chinese architect whose Beijing firm Mad won an international competition for the design of a landmark residential tower in Mississauga, Canada's in 2006. He did his undergraduate studies in Beijing and got his master degree in U.S at Yale University. He worked in London at Zaha Hadid firm and got a commission in SOHO project. Then he founded MAD, which means Ma Designs because he does not want to design only buildings, he is also civil engineering. “Marilyn Monroe” is his famous work, it was named like that because the building looked like her body, from the begging he didn’t want it to be a box-like structure, he wanted to do an irregular twisting type form. The 'Marilyn Monroe Building', it is a spectacular and sensuous skyscraper that was the favorite choice of the judges, the press and the public.** media type="custom" key="13605758" media type="custom" key="13605760" media type="file" key="Ma3.wma" width="300" height="45"