Towers in the city: Berlin Alexanderplatz

"This book examines the tower as the architectural expression of a long-term commitment to the city, arguing that development must be driven not only by property value and architectural ingenuity but also by a responsibility to collective memory and to a common humanity. These public commitment...

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1. Verfasser: Kollhoff, Hans 1946- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Dugdale, Kyle (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven, CT Yale School of Architecture [2021]
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Zusammenfassung:"This book examines the tower as the architectural expression of a long-term commitment to the city, arguing that development must be driven not only by property value and architectural ingenuity but also by a responsibility to collective memory and to a common humanity. These public commitments find architectural expression in a tectonic radically different to that of contemporary patterns of development. Taking Berlin's Alexanderplatz as an opportunity for studying the role of the skyscraper within the urban fabric, the volume presents a series of prompts, provocations, and projects to address the challenge of designing a tower that can be understood as a monolithic whole, even if it is assembled from discrete parts" -- Amazon.com
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references
Beschreibung:158 Seiten Illustrationen, Pläne (teilweise farbig) 26 cm
ISBN:9781638409021