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Langue English
Catégorie Anglais
Niveau Université
Crée / Actualisé 20.08.2019 / 21.09.2019
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1. How does Goldfinger’s Trellick high-rise building respond to the environment?

Does not respond to the environment, like an alien shape

2. How does Peter Hall describe the style?

Le Corbusier turned brutalist
3. Which problems are caused by the building?

Isolation, loneliness, crime

4. Which problems does the resident Lee Boland describe?

No concierge, so the building attracted street crime (drugs, muggings, homeless, prostitution)

5. For what purpose was it designed?

Socialist utopia

6. Why did the structural engineer Willem Freshman want to design the vertical city?

To prevent the countryside from urban sprawl
7. How tall was his tower?

2- mile tower

8. What did the architect Frank Lloyd Wright propose?

1-mile tower

9. How does the Hancock Tower in Chicago deal with wind forces?

Diagonal cross-bracing

10. What allowed the construction of higher buildings?

Improvements in IT, and better welding techniques and steel
11. What sometimes happens in meetings at the top of Sears tower?

Motion sickness

12. Why are there revolving doors at the entrance to tall buildings? What is the effect called?

To prevent draught (cold air pulled in)

13. Which design ideas are behind Norman Foster’s Swiss Re/Gherkin tower in London?

Twisted spiral

14. Which two architectural types are combined?

Tower and dome
15. How does the architect Renzo Piano defend ‘The Shard’? And how tall is it?

Little vertical city of glass

16. How does the architecture critic Jonathan Glancey describe Canary Wharf?

Postmodernist kitsch

Short history of tall buildings, part 5

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1. What is the most expensive piece of real estate?

Wall of remembrance, Hong Kong
2. Where is the busiest border in the world?

Hong Kong and Shenzhen

3. What’s the size of Shenzhen? How fast was it built?

Like London, 20 years

4. How has Hong Kong changed from the 19th century to today?

Colonial trading post to uniform of international capitalism

5. Why are there so many tall buildings in Hong Kong?

Limited space between volcanic mountains and sea
6. Where did the land for modern Hong Kong come from?

Land filled in from the seaside

7. Who built the modern headquarter of the HSBC? What does HSBC stand for?

Norman Foster

8. What principles did the architect want to express? What architectural features express this?

Openness and transparency

9. How did the Bank of China respond? Who built its headquarter? What is he famous for?

With an even taller building

10.Why does the building have bad ‘Feng Shui’?

Sharp angles pointing at other buildings

11. What does the building point at?

Government buildings

12. Where do most of the millionaires live?

Towers, in apartments

13. How does the property developer describe his project?

Gated community of a grand scale

14. How big will BelAir be?

3000

15. How many people live in public housing?

Over half of population

16. What’s the density of people? (By comparison to Paris)

6000 people/hectare (250)

17. How did the living conditions change for the people from the 1920s to today?

Shared rooms and bunk beds to modest apartments

18. What do the Filipino domestic workers do on Sunday?

Meet up for picnic in public spaces

19. Hong Kong is a city going halfway where?

Vertical city of the future

20. What reason does the architect give for the external lighting?

Attract tenants and advertise the building

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