The Daewoo Consortium and the municipality of Gwanggyo announced the MVRDV concept design for a dense city centre winner of the developer’s competition for the future new town of Gwanggyo, located 35km south of the Korean capital Seoul. The plan consists of a series of overgrown hill shaped buildings with high programmatic diversity, aiming for high urban density and encouragement of further developments around this so-called ‘Power Centre’, one of the envisioned two centres of the future new town. Bustler
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ARE YOU SERIOUS!?
outBIGs BIG.
Its Hideous
Mason,
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Juan,
It's green. But it may not even all get built as they are selling the fact that the ring design allows for growth/building in stages...
This is obviously "green," but I have an objective question about this project. Construction methods have to be modified greatly to accomodate so many plants (are there plants all over or is that just a green layer?). . .and assumably much more material. This stuff can get heavy, water is heavy, etc. It just seems rather bulky with a great mass expenditure with its embodied energy and costs relative to structure, maintenance, systems, etc. It's very one-to-one on the eco trip. . .whatever happened to Fuller's ideas? Why did we slip seamlessly from Corb spiritualism to jagged to bombast and spectacle? The most performance with the minimum material idea? This isn't about domes, just that as a "green" concept that is hardly popular for some reason. Does it require too much structural finesse for a profession that is more versed in the Adobe suite than material science? I understand that people are still educated within the collage paradigm and all that. . .regardless, I've liked the work of this office from time to time. They don't get all precious and cultish about ideas and I appreciate that. The danger is that things may simply lack seriousness. Being fresh and funky is mega-valid in some things, but we're talking skycrapers here, and in a tragically messed-up globo-ecological situation. Maybe Juan is right, it's just plastic. . .probably bio-plastic though - gotcha!
Besides to be plastic or not...Dear Friends,
Thank you for complements for our concept which has been already awarded in 2002 International Competition for the Osaka Northern Station Area for which we have submitted our ” Osaka Suspended Gardens” project. In 2006 for the UIA International Competition “The Idea for the City” we have received the 1st prize for our project “Brussels Hills on the Beach”. But the presented MVRDV project in their Korean edition seems to be only the caricature of our concept. So we on the new concepts and have progressed since than ... ;)
I invite you to check our web site http://www.tpda.be and the page web of the “Europaconcorsi”: http://europaconcorsi.com/people/65427-Town-Planning-Design-Architecture-Witkowski/projects
We are realy helpless against this kind of practices where in case of lack of own ideas the designers are "borrowing" the ideas of their coleagues...We are not protected against such vicious practices. The only we can do is to publish our projects. But the result is sometimes perverse: they are copied by unscrupulous "professionals"...
The plagiarism became a very popular procedure even among some very good architectural practices...It is not the first time when more important companies like ATKINS INTERNATIONAL for example, has "borrowed" our concept from our submission presented in 2006- for the Architectural Association,The Environment, Ecology and Sustainability Cluster International Competition - London Environmental Tectonics – our "Rehabilitation Project of the Stone Quarry in Soignies". One year later, Atkins International has presented this idea as his own, for a Hotel Competition in Shenyang Qarry near Shanghai...and won the 1st prize.
Apparently this kind of practices is fruitfull for the time being.
Good luck for them!
Regards Boguslaw F.Witkowski
Bad, Bad MVRDV!!! You can not steal from yuor colleagues....
Get serious, Boguslaw. We're going from the Eco-Trip into an EGO-Trip. I've seen dozens of projects like this on the Internet in the past years. I've also done a few like this in other scales and for sure I didn't steel them from you.
I remember a few years I made a competition project in Norway and i proposed an Iceberg. West8 were doing another competition for the same city and they also proposed an... ICEBERG!!!! You guessed it!!!! Did I had spies on theirs studio? They had spies in my studio????
http://www.newitalianblood.com/show.pl?id=2011
Or maybe my 2003 project for an exhibition project in Catalunya, Spain (where MVRDV were also presenting their research on another subject!!!) http://sa-arquitectos.com/proj_en/proj_12_4_en.html
Come on.....get serious and stop crying. No one is stealing nothing from the other...
We are in a global world of visual culture, where our background lexicon of images and shapes become virtually the same, ending up in similar projects popping up everywhere...
Dear Carlos ... Thank you for comforting words.Nice nice your images. Congratulations for your cenvergence with great masters. But at the same time I am happy that it created an opportunity for me to descover your early works and for you to present them to a larger audience ;)
In 1978 I presented a similar concept to Mishawa Homes competition.
Get serious(a copy:), Carlos. We are in a virtual world here and I am happy to share the new ideas and make them known by everybody...but not to be copied by them.
Once again my congratulations for your achievements Carlos.
Regards
Boguslaw
Boguslaw:
I'm not here looking for a greater audience. My work has the recognition it can have and I'm not worried about getting much more than that... I'll not put here what I have accomplished so far because it's neither the place or time for that. In fact, all my irony was about your out-of-place whining and complaining about being copied.
Everyone that has some creativity in their work can say the same: I've been stolen!!! when some studio with greater comunnication and execution capacity appears with something similar.
We agree that we are in a virtual world and images flow around more easily than ever before. But there is something called Synchronicity (please check wikipedia for that...) and I don't have a doubt it is happening —or being noticed— more frequently than before.
I'm happy that in 1978 you presented something similar. Unfortunatly I was still in kindergarden and didn't noticed that, but if I look carefully in my archive, I may also find some similar shapes in my primary school drawings...
You have interesting projects in your website and sincerely don't believe that coming into public claiming that you were stolen is the best way to promote them.
Believing that you're "The Reference" of the "Great Masters" —as you called them— is unbelievable. Certainly your ego is bluring your judgement and Common Sense...
Stay focused. Keep up the good work...
Best
Carlos
So I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy 2009 New Year Carlos ;) Tanks for comments.
The plagiarism became a very popular procedure even among some very good architectural practices...It is not the first time when more important companies like ATKINS INTERNATIONAL for example, has "borrowed" our concept from our submission presented in 2006- for the Architectural Association,The Environment, Ecology and Sustainability Cluster International Competition - London Environmental Tectonics – our "Rehabilitation Project of the Stone Quarry in Soignies". One year later, Atkins International has presented this idea as his own, for a Hotel Competition in Shenyang Qarry near Shanghai...and won the 1st prize....jugar los mejores juegos en linea
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