"This road is too narrow", "Why didn't they build a bigger path for pedestrians here?", "Who designed the centre of this city? There is always so much traffic". I think we all heard or said something along these lines in our lives. We like to complain about the way a city or a town was planned but we don't realise that it isn't the easiest thing to do most of the times. City isn't built at once. Neither it is planned at once. It means that it will always change and will have to be adapted to always changing requirements of the people. For example architects two centuries ago didn't expect that today there will be cars in such big numbers on the streets so it is obvious that the roads built then are not able to handle the modern day challenges. There are more examples like that so I think we should be more forgiving next time we'll be stuck in traffic in the old part of the city.
“ The skyline of London has been redrawn by this building. It has awoken the enthusiasm for European architectural innovation.” - Nengjun Luo, CTBUH 2013 Awards Juror, CITIC Heye Investment This week I want to take you far from american buildings I wrote about in past two weeks. Actually around 7 hours by plane and 5900 km from the white house. I am talking of course about the incredible and beautiful Shard, the skyscraper standing in London. It is as high as 306 metres and it is in fact the tallest building in the UK, 4th in the Europe and 96th in the entire world. Even though it isn't the tallest or the biggest it is very unique with its design. Unlike no other building it's made to look like a shard of glass what makes it very futuristic and impressive. It owns this to a man named Renzo Piano who was the design architect working to create its unusual form and shape. It is located in the super modern part of London. The construction ended in July 2012 but It w...
We could be forgiving towards past city planners but in many European cities are older than Warsaw and are trying to solve the problem by e.g. restricting the traffic in some areas. London makes drivers pay a congestion fee to reduce the traffic in the centre. Parking fees in many city centres are prohibitively high to make drivers switch to public transport.
OdpowiedzUsuńYou are right about roads, pedestrians and stuff. We can take it to the next level: more patience in all things like it. Nothing comes from nothing and being grouchy won't help us.
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