Chicago's Marina Towers floor plan

232 – Chicago’s Mandalas

Back in the 1960’s when Marina City, designed by architect, Bertrand Goldberg, was first being built in Chicago, its towers were the first circular apartment buildings in history; as well as being both the tallest concrete structures and tallest residential towers in the world. “More importantly, they were an experiment in a new urban philosophy: building a city within a city.”

Weaving Basket by Donya Stockton

229 – Weaving Basket Mandala

Texas basket weaver, Donya Stockton, created this award-winning inter-weaving basket which, per her flickr site, received Best of Sculpture at the Southwest School of Art Annual Faculty and Student Exhibition 2011 and [was] accepted to Latitude, Convergence 2012 in Long Beach, California.