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- But the truth is that these are mostly one-offs, boutique projects, not easily reproduced at a global scale.
- 但事实是这些往往都只是个例,精品工程没办法轻易的在全球范围内普及。
- And that is the point. When you use materials that have a local significance, you prevent cities from all looking the same.
- 但这也就是它的意义所在。当你去使用这些具有地方特色的建材时,就能够避免城市外观趋于一致。
- Copper has a long history in New York -- the Statue of Liberty, the crown of the Woolworth Building
- 在纽约,铜的运用已有很长的历史了,自由女神像和伍尔沃思大厦的楼顶都是如此,
- but it fell out of fashion for a long time
- 但是它已经脱离时尚界多年,
- until SHoP Architects used it to cover the American Copper Building, a pair of twisting towers on the East River.
- 直到SHoP建筑师们在建造东河岸的一对扭曲塔楼American Copper Building时,再次使用了它。
- It's not even finished and you can see the way sunset lights up that metallic facade, which will weather to green as it ages.
- 它还没有完工,但你仍能够从夕阳中看到那耀眼的金属光泽,知道它们会随着时间风化成绿色。
- Buildings can be like people. Their faces broadcast their experience.
- 楼房也可以和人一样。它们的脸上写满了沧桑。
- And that's an important point, because when glass ages, you just replace it,
- 这是很重要的一点,因为当玻璃老化的时候我们就会把它换掉,
- and the building looks pretty much the same way it did before until eventually it's demolished.
- 这样那些楼房看起来始终都是一个样子,直到最终销毁。
- Almost all other materials have the ability to absorb infusions of history and memory, and project it into the present.
- 几乎所有的材料都有能力去吸收并融纳历史和记忆,并把这些都呈现于当代。
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一个诡异的转变正在城市中间蔓延,建筑评判家贾斯汀·戴维森这样说道。无论是得克萨斯州的休斯顿还是中国的广州,被玻璃覆盖的钢筋混凝土高楼在日光下闪闪发光,犹如入侵物种。当戴维森阐述建筑外观时,请大家重新思考自己的城市设计--当建筑师们抛弃了各种建筑材料时,我们又失去了什么。
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