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Shipwreck tower by Black n' Arch and David Černý warns of climate change catastrophe

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Global warming is our urban warming

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D. T. FERRANDO, The (Un)RealShit. Architecture between commodification and mediatization, in A. GIRÄLDEZ, B. HERMIDA, P. IBAÑEZ (ed.), La Producción: Cuatro Estrategias Menores, Bartlebooth, Madrid 2016, pp. 126-138. ISBN: 9788461751983

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The(Un)RealShit - Talk to the End

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30 Park Place marketing video

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Is there a more famous skyline? Has a city ever inspired more dreams, more excitement? To look upon the towers of New York City is to witness the greatest sculpture mankind has produced in the history of the world. And two men are building a new masterpiece.

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2 World Trade Center in New York City, a BIG design, Squint/Opera production

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The completion of the World Trade Center will restore the majestic skyline of Manhattan and unite the streetscapes of TriBeCa with the towers Downtown. To complete this urban reunification we propose a tower that will feel equally at home in TriBeCa and the World Trade Center. From TriBeCa, the home of lofts and roof gardens, it will appear like a vertical village of singular buildings stacked on top of each other to create parks and plazas in the sky. From the World Trade Center, the individual towers will appear unified, completing the colonnade of towers framing the 9/11 Memorial. Horizontal meets vertical. Diversity becomes unity.

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La vision architecturale d’EuropaCity par Bjarke Ingels et Carlo Ratti

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CR: [...] what about using a new development in order to test some of these [new technologies], in order to let it evolve almost as a living lab, a place where our future can actually be invented. And in this evolution I think we should also try to engage people, you know, there should be like a collaborative effort, there should be a way where all together we can come and decide how these places we will live in tomorrow will be-

BI: with Grand Paris and with Europa City there’s actually the possibility to once again be as bold as the Parisians used to be when they created the Paris we know today, and think BIG and make BIG experiments to make a sort of Paris 2.0 that in a way sets a new standard for what a city can be.

The city is not just an accumulation of buildings, it’s actually an entire man-made ecosystem, where you design not just the flow of people through the streets but actually the flow of resources through the city. One of the things that are quite unique with a project like Europa City is that we are creating something that is at the scale of the neighborhood in a holistic design. Not that it’s all gonna be the same, but we can actually explore sinergies, so that things that in a normal city would be separate and have no possibility for sinergy, we can actually tie them together, creating and entire man-made ecosystem. 

CR: if I imagine about 2024 I think that sharing will be a very powerful engine of urban life. Ultimately this has two very big advantages, is not only efficiency, but is also about the beauty of meeting other people.

BI: the classic monument is mainly about verticality, about how many floors you stack on each other, but I think in Europa City we really try to sort of combine the qualities of an open landscape with the quality of streetscapes of different proportions so it becomes almost like a horizontal monument. 

We try to sort of create a lively urban fabric that actually combines radically different streetscapes, sometimes intimate streets, sometimes more generous streets, sometimes you have tall walls around you, sometimes you know like even the roof comes down and kisses the ground and invites you to invade the roofscape, where you can stand in green surroundings and look at the skyline of Paris, or you can dive into the streets and enjoy sort of the pedestrian quality of moving around in a town or in a village.

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The(Un)RealShit - Bigshow

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Louis Vuitton's Celebrating Monogram Creative Stories: Pierre Debusschere interprets Frank Gehry