Submitted by Jonathan Budd

A new architectural order/style for the global economy - How global market influences the design of

Architecture News - Dec 25, 2007 - 09:18   10411 views

Immovable large art. Kunstwollen at urban scale: Architecture interprets and coincides with the requirements of the new rich "global nomads" - a specific dictionary made of glass surfaces, great climate atmospheres, "indoor nature“ and piranesian spaces. New volumetric relationships - vertical in the case of skyscrapers and horizontal in the great dimensions of large buildings, often suspended on the land – emphasize the function of the buildings as a microcosms just laying on the ground and berthed to infrastructures only, ideally in a position able to transfer the nomad from a place to another, from town to town, from metropolis to metropolis, from continent to continent without touching with his hand the real, and often conflictual, geographic and political complexity of the region.


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