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3 February 2012

How will it be the architecture in fifty years?
Is here a question of risky response. ” How are we going to represent a future that still does not exist? “, there apologizes the British architect David Chipperfield, last winner of the prize Mies Van der Rohe. It is true, the future does not exist still. But yes we can imagine it. For example, extrapolating what happens in the most dynamic cities of the planet. A good observatory might be the glazed bar in the high of the hotel Peninsula, in the Bund of Shanghai. From there one sees how Pudong’s zone, in another shore of the river Huangpu, gains density and height. Year a year, Pudong’s downtown is transfigured, since of anyone of ten cities of more than five million inhabitants who exist in China (or of the ninety with more of one). In Pudong there raises the tower Jin Mao (414 meters), art’s hybrid déco and Chinese aesthetics; the Oriental Pearl (468 meters), with his echoes of the spatial Soviet career; the Shanghai World Financial Center (492 meters), masses the bottle-opener, and hundreds more. They are recent, enormous buildings, which prompt will see minimized by the tower Shanghai (632 meters), now in construction. All yerguen on former rice-fields, in area of alluvium that sinks little by little under the unexpected weight of these Colossuses; it sinks so much in physical terms (a centimeter a year) as metaphorical (representing the inviability of a model of wild growth).

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