elvo摩天大楼建筑竞赛.doc

HYPERLINK http://www.evolo.us/competition/para-city/Para-City BY: HYPERLINK http://www.evolo.us/author/admin/ADMIN | DECEMBER - 15 - 2009 1st Place2007 Skyscraper Competition Somnath RayIndia First Place The skyscraper as a ‘modernist’ invention was a logical conclusion to the desires of a paleo-capitalist society, as an urban landmass approached its critical point of wealth and density of inhabitants. Imagined as a sign of cultural power and ownership, the skyscraper was typified in its ‘classical heroism’ from its logically consequent tabula rasa condition; as a formulation for a utopian blank slate on which a new building is conceived, free of compromise or complication after the demolition of what previously stood on the site. HYPERLINK http://www.evolo.us/competition/para-city/#more-293Read the rest of this entry ? HYPERLINK http://www.evolo.us/category/2007/2007, HYPERLINK http://www.evolo.us/category/competition/COMPETITION HYPERLINK http://www.evolo.us/competition/inverted-skyscraper-typology/Inverted Skyscraper Typology BY: HYPERLINK http://www.evolo.us/author/admin/ADMIN | DECEMBER - 15 - 2009 2nd Place2007 Skyscraper Competition Yi Cheng PanUnited Kingdom Second Place The past decades have seen the creation of major cities from scratch, at break-neck speed, through the endless proliferation of Skyscrapers. Shanghai, Guangzhou, Dubai, Singapore are mere specimens of such a milieu that is set to perpetuate and grow.The mass production of this ubiquitous and definitive building type, that investors, planners, and government addictively rely on to achieve both market efficiency and the “landmark” effect in any new urban development, clearly exposes the very paralysis and inability of the state to imagine a new city that is not populated by high-rises. HYPERLINK http://www.evolo.us/competition/inverted-skyscraper-typology/#more-291Read the rest of this entry ? HYPERLINK http://www.evolo.us/category/2007/2007, HYPERLINK http://www.evolo.us/category/competit