I always wondered how today’s office building, often built with glass facade, will age. If I look at New York buildings from the early 20th century for example, when well kept, they look very good. Are architects think of how our future generations will look at our today’s construction in terms if aesthetics.
Thanks for sharing this video with us. Actually, this is the main problem here in Gulf region in the middle east, there is a lot of building being build or have built and there is no need for it. A lot of office buildings are empty and there is no need to lease it.
You realize that you answered your own question while describing Modor. The solution to the challenge you see for urban business architecture is to anticipate and adjust to the very factors that caused Modor to form and fail in the first place. The same effects are happening now in the western hot spot you circled just outside the city core. This is just a proto-Modor, it is just that you have not realized it. If you can locate the next hot spot and anticipate the sudden growth and development there, you can build in safeguards that work against the common entropy and life cycle effects you have seen in Modor, and will see in the current hot spot in about 15 years. It is already too late, but you can help to fix the next one. Or just wait till Modor fails a bit more and then renovate it such that the problems that are killing it are fixed. That is much more expensive, so just let Modor die and when it collapses completely reclaim it for a new function in better keeping with its location and market pressures. Start watching at 2:46 for one of the big challenges.
i agree in a lot of things of what you say. Did you realize that you were almost enumerating the very same facts that made “warhol at the factory” and modern lofts appear? Anyway this is a very common urban behaviour in southamerica.
What an excellent question! As more and more humanity end up living in cities, the question of how to do that efficiently is VITALLY important. And as you say transportation is one of the key issues. I have recorded my thoughts on that issue in a video: Future City Transportation: ruclips.net/video/b-ohqAwo1zU/видео.html. I would much appreciate any thoughts or comments you may have. Regards Richard🙂
Glass facade and skyscraper has no future. It's better to build quality with reasonable height do to sustainability. Enlarged cities instead of tall ones. It's time to rearrange place around the city with old unpopular suburbs, industry buildings that needs to be replaced any way.
maybe use some of the empty buildings instead of making trash new ones , lifespan of a building nowadays is short for a reason- low quality lowest common denominator
I always wondered how today’s office building, often built with glass facade, will age. If I look at New York buildings from the early 20th century for example, when well kept, they look very good. Are architects think of how our future generations will look at our today’s construction in terms if aesthetics.
Thanks for sharing this video with us. Actually, this is the main problem here in Gulf region in the middle east, there is a lot of building being build or have built and there is no need for it. A lot of office buildings are empty and there is no need to lease it.
Thank you for your comment! Do you know of any solutions that Gulf region real estate developers have for this situation?
Great episode Radek and Natalia, must have missed it when you uploaded. What happened to the PKiN film?
I believe challenges need to be how to use new recycled materials, and the resistance of it, I believe that is the enormous challenge.
You realize that you answered your own question while describing Modor. The solution to the challenge you see for urban business architecture is to anticipate and adjust to the very factors that caused Modor to form and fail in the first place. The same effects are happening now in the western hot spot you circled just outside the city core. This is just a proto-Modor, it is just that you have not realized it. If you can locate the next hot spot and anticipate the sudden growth and development there, you can build in safeguards that work against the common entropy and life cycle effects you have seen in Modor, and will see in the current hot spot in about 15 years. It is already too late, but you can help to fix the next one. Or just wait till Modor fails a bit more and then renovate it such that the problems that are killing it are fixed. That is much more expensive, so just let Modor die and when it collapses completely reclaim it for a new function in better keeping with its location and market pressures.
Start watching at 2:46 for one of the big challenges.
i agree in a lot of things of what you say. Did you realize that you were almost enumerating the very same facts that made “warhol at the factory” and modern lofts appear? Anyway this is a very common urban behaviour in southamerica.
What an excellent question! As more and more humanity end up living in cities, the question of how to do that efficiently is VITALLY important. And as you say transportation is one of the key issues. I have recorded my thoughts on that issue in a video: Future City Transportation: ruclips.net/video/b-ohqAwo1zU/видео.html. I would much appreciate any thoughts or comments you may have. Regards Richard🙂
Glass facade and skyscraper has no future. It's better to build quality with reasonable height do to sustainability. Enlarged cities instead of tall ones. It's time to rearrange place around the city with old unpopular suburbs, industry buildings that needs to be replaced any way.
maybe use some of the empty buildings instead of making trash new ones , lifespan of a building nowadays is short for a reason- low quality lowest common denominator
I think, that speaker from Russia?
He's from Poland :P
He told in this video that his hometown is Warsaw