Building A Small Town With Its Own Life

“Architecture should not be seen as representing a magical transition from the worldly to the heavenly, as had been implied by the Baroque Style, but rather as a medium that told nothing less than the story of the “origins” of mankind.” (Ching 610)

Sze states, “Under changing political contexts that reshaped the literal spatial development in Shanghai, its residents faced immense changes in the physical and ideological landscapes of the city.”(p. 111) She then goes on to say that even though the city was supposed to be a landmark in cultural renovation and cutting edge Chinese architecture, that it looked similar to the western building. Skyscrapers like the ones in Shanghai, “But the Shanghai Tower and Dongtan are not as different as their architectural rendering would imply.” (p. 91) Sze’s view of Dongtan was similar to that of a Californian city in the United States. The fact that the same American developers that made many cities in the U.S. also built these buildings leaves no doubt that the building are similar intentionally. The feelings that Sze has on this seems a bit misplaced seeing how she is an American with dethatched Chinese ancestry. She makes the inferences that it makes her mad and upset that her home island was made to be an alternate American city. One with whites models all over the street signs and American companies. To me this seems like a cultural push, whether it was intentional by the Chinese government or not, to force our culture upon the Chinese. An article by Gizmodo state, “When we talk about China, we're usually talking about megacities like Beijing and Shanghai. But China has

Heritage buildings act in the same way; the characters of built environments have changed and continue to change as architectural styles do throughout time. The architecture of today adds to and becomes but one of the layers in the urban fabric. New designs in an existing city set out to mimic, integrate, juxta-pose, harmonies, contrast, juxtapose or even com-pete with the existing status quo. Each situation re-quires a different approach with different design re-quirements assessed on a case-by-case basis (Or-basli, 2010). The proposed research will discuss the adaptation of the cultural heritage between tra-dition and innovation: how case-by-case design re-quirements impact on heritage building’s identity, looking at museums in

Have you ever gone on a road trip and you 're driving through a loud, hectic city and then, BAM! You reach a quiet countryside surrounded by charming houses, and it seems so serene? You have just stepped foot in a small town. I personally prefer living in a small town rather than a big city because I am more comfortable with a smaller area. I come from a small town of about 6,000 people, and I have to say it is so much better than living in a big city (AreaVibes Inc.). Unique characteristics of a small town, a relaxed pace of life, and a safer environment are all reasons to live in a small town. The small town is home.

With the development of modern technology, cameras have now become an optical instrument for recording or capturing images, which can be stored locally, transmitted to other locations or even both. Since that, photography starts to appear as a common activity for people to play with and it is also one of the most outstanding factors to affect different countries with architectural style. The first thing that photo affect us is the cultural identity and personal characteristics, people nowadays are gradually losing their personal identity along with the development of photography. Secondly, through the spread of pictures around the world, it would be entirely possible for a certain architecture style to appear simultaneously in two

As the evident structural element, it also emerges the functional contrasting with historic building which constructed in the duplicated patterns. The lower south corner of exterior surface is designed with the vertical prominent mullions. As the internal contrast of façade materials, it demonstrates distinct external reflection of surroundings. Meanwhile, the structure wraps around the corner to the south landscaped ground-level plaza, which is actually separating the intentions from the cooperate commercial offices to retail spaces. On the other hand, it blurs the views from the southeastern as the residential areas. Compared to the historic ambience at 4th Avenue facade, Maki provided a different curtain wall system to generate a flexible conversation with contemporary residential neighborhoods. The internal comparison of façade design represents the practical scheme that is implanted to the diverse site

There is an abundance of reasons to live in a small town, and more and more people are moving out of the city to the countryside saying that their reasons to live in a small town started with wanting a slower pace of life, or a better

One of the important aspect of Chinese culture is the architecture. The architecture of the king’s palace with its enormous entrance, solid walls, ornamentals beams and majestic court exemplifies how architecture is

Harper wondered what Mr & Mrs Winter would make of the small town being renamed ‘New Detroit City’ after the CORPORATION moved in 100 years’ later on the turn of what was called the 21st century. Harper didn’t know much about the CORPORATION but she knew that they were originally based in old Detroit and they moved out of there and into this area for some reason.

Since the 1970s, the architectural industry in Hong Kong enjoyed a brilliant growth as a result of real estate and stock market speculation. In 1996, the industry was very profit-oriented and time conscious, and heavy bureaucracy was one of the main characteristics of the market. The role of the government and others institutions such as the HKIA (Hong Kong Institute of Architects) are essential in the Hong Kong architectural industry.

I live in the small town of Barney, North Dakota, however I go to school in the town of Wyndmere, North Dakota. I absolutely love small town life and I do believe that it has had a huge impact on who I have become throughout all 17 years of my life. Going to a school with only 20 kids in my class has immediate positives. First of all, it is easy to concentrate on academics when you can have one on one time with a teacher almost whenever there is freetime. Also, in a small town there is a huge push for involvement in extracurricular activities. This is because we still have many groups and organizations but we don’t have as many members that a larger school would. This has sculpted me into a well rounded individual by being apart of almost every

Coming to the United States for college from China was already quite eye-opening to me. The study abroad program to Italy opened up my horizon even more – I designed a memorial hall dedicated to the Nanking Massacre during WWII, and the moment that a dozen architects coming from Chinese, American, Italian, and other European backgrounds got together and shared their intelligent thoughts on the project really struck me. There were so many cultural and intellectual sparks colliding, and I felt substantial potential there. This is why I decided to take a summer off and travel around China to see different architectures and educate myself. Being a resident of three diverse environments has enabled me to integrate into other cultures, discover how they understand buildings, and imagine the greater potential for our built environment.

Today technology allows us to construct structures that we would never have been able to make in the past. Some of the creations are impressive based on what they accomplish but others are masterpieces in themselves. Man’s capability to build such tall buildings, as the skyscrapers we are familiar with covering our cities today, is a major expression of the advancements we have made as a culture. The power necessary to build such tall structures inspired competition between architects to see who could build the tallest one. One skyscraper that has inspired many and served as a model, for high rise buildings that were created after, is the Chrysler Building. The Chrysler Building serves as an identifying mark to anyone that

It is all known that architectural culture play an important role in any nation culture and history. It reveals the achievements of the nation in various aspects such as artistic realizations, the development level of the nation and at the same time the civilization degree of the nation.This paper will discuss and compare the different culture between Chinese traditional architecture and Western architecture.

First of all, to start building a city an urban pattern has to be established, this will make the city look much more organized and well thought. A pattern can be chosen from a whole list of working patterns for a city. Establishing a grid is a common way of equally distributing the city. However, we want to keep in mind, that important buildings, such as businesses, and government buildings must be accessible to the public, but separated from the rest of the city. We have great examples of grids such as New York City, in New York, United States, or Mississauga City, in Toronto ,Canada. Although, when building from scratch it is not possible to leave aside what has already been built, a city indeed has to adapt to what is already existing, as well as to the new global economy, social and political trends, and new issues that arise in the new era, this also changes the structure and tradition of building and forming urban patterns. Using the existing patterns, combined with new ones, both patterns can collide and make new forms in city blocks. Results vary from city to city, but the essence is the same in all of them; old and new patterns coming together to create unplanned shapes, a new form of Urbanism, based on new and old patterns, aiming to satisfy the needs of the modern world. A great example is New York