Architecture, Urbanism & Design
The demolition unveils the uncliched landscape of the city; the void reveals the abundance of existence.
According to the released information by the city council, the construction around the station continues through 2022; it comes with another 170m high skyscraper. Obviously, the district of La Part-Dieu is the second-largest business district of France after La Défense near Paris, with more than 2,500 companies and 55,000 jobs.
Cirque de la Madeleine:
The four open books on the sunken garden read off the riverside, surnamed after the former president. Under the August sun, the books in the glasshouse are all chilled out behind the rotating wooden screens. The wind alone rests in the forbidden forest; the empty square awaits the hunger still climbing the stairs.
Journey never ends. Every sunset reminds the close; every morning comes in an unfamiliar city. Confused and exhausted, home is still far off. Behold, the cloud is meaningless. If the image is clear, the birds should be useless; (they are) intended or not, the decision is not yours. That causes the pain; one’s own creativity pretends to follow the other’s.
The heritage is fragile. War, fire and natural disasters are commonly known enemies. During the Japanese occupation period, the historic property of Korea has suffered for avowed robbery and poor maintenance. Countless precious assets have disappeared over the East Sea; even a whole building of the royal palace was just torn off and moved away. Bulguksa, the most historic and symbolic Buddhist temple of Korea, couldn’t be an exception.
Then, over 70 years passed; today, is this temple correctly restored? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Era-mixed shapes of the roofs and pillars, unmatched motifs and colors of the paintwork, tourist-friendly landscaping, everything is imagined and flavored to proceed the delicate restoration as quickly as possible, without time-consuming further historical research, and to use as a propaganda of the immature politics.
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