Project submitted to the 2006 Skyscraper Competition
Designed by: Nik Stützle
High-rise buildings have always been symbols of economical strength, and necessary for every metropolis to compete as a modern and vital city. This demonstration of power on the other hand mostly has a negative effect on the urban context: because of their size high-rise buildings are difficult to integrate into sensible urban environments and behave like aliens in the city.
Behind impressive facades apartments are still quite minimal; one floor-plan usually is multiplied in vertical, connected by dark elevators and rescue stairs. Narrow corridors and anonym foyers do not really offer an adequate space for social activities. The consequences very often are loneliness of the inhabitants, alienation and criminality, syndromes that contributed to the negative image of high-rise buildings. Read the rest of this entry »