Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
All That Glitters
The London Eye sparkles like a gigantic silver bracelet. It is a curiously modern phenomenon: a building designed to be looked at, and looked from. A vast landscape of spectacle and amusement has been built, entirely given over to encouraging you to experience stuff: taste, touch, smell, sight, sound. It is a route of permanent passeggiata. A tide of humans‐with‐cameras flows from here downriver with the water from dawn till dusk and into the night, experiencing the thrills human and architectural put on for their benefit, set against the picturesque background of the sights of London on the other side of the river, obligingly lit by the southern sun. The cruddiness of ordinary life, kept at bay by this new urban skin, surges forth once more: say when the Thames is at low tide, revealing its riverbed of rubble, shopping trolleys, traffic cones and mud, or when those tourist cameras catch an occasional view of buildings dating from one of London's gloomier periods when the city seemed destined for a future of motorways and concrete, until a brighter, shinier future was fixed upon.
All That Glitters
The London Eye sparkles like a gigantic silver bracelet. It is a curiously modern phenomenon: a building designed to be looked at, and looked from. A vast landscape of spectacle and amusement has been built, entirely given over to encouraging you to experience stuff: taste, touch, smell, sight, sound. It is a route of permanent passeggiata. A tide of humans‐with‐cameras flows from here downriver with the water from dawn till dusk and into the night, experiencing the thrills human and architectural put on for their benefit, set against the picturesque background of the sights of London on the other side of the river, obligingly lit by the southern sun. The cruddiness of ordinary life, kept at bay by this new urban skin, surges forth once more: say when the Thames is at low tide, revealing its riverbed of rubble, shopping trolleys, traffic cones and mud, or when those tourist cameras catch an occasional view of buildings dating from one of London's gloomier periods when the city seemed destined for a future of motorways and concrete, until a brighter, shinier future was fixed upon.
All That Glitters
Borden, Iain (Herausgeber:in) / Fraser, Murray (Herausgeber:in) / Penner, Barbara (Herausgeber:in) / Dyckhoff, Tom (Autor:in)
Forty Ways To Think About Architecture ; 239-242
24.03.2015
4 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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