2024-12-22T01:51:15-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150161277/a-rusty-post-apocalyptic-shipwreck-crashed-into-a-skyscraper-could-soon-become-prague-s-tallest-building Alexander Walter 2019-09-25T14:42:00-04:00 >2019-10-19T02:43:11-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/26/26db7b910562a8d883fc3c059ad496c0.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>A giant rusty shipwreck, its bow reaching for the sky, cuts through the main building. Plants growing out of the hull seem to symbolise man&rsquo;s creation slowly being reclaimed by nature. According to Tom&aacute;&scaron; C&iacute;sa&#345;, the lead architect of Black n&acute; Arch studio, which designed the structure, the building also serves as a pedestal for the ship.</p></em><br /><br /><p>While environmental activist Greta Thunberg reminded delegates at the United Nations Climate Action Summit in New York this week of our planet's dire future prospects, Czech developers <a href="https://www.trigema.cz/toptower/" target="_blank">Trigema</a> have proposed a post-apocalyptic vision of an enormous rusty shipwreck sculpture leaning upright against, and seemingly crashing into, a high-rise building. <br></p> <p>"This is something we wanted to do as a memento which connects art and architecture," Czech Radio quotes the designers, architects Black N' Arch in collaboration with sculptor David &#268;ern&yacute;, about the climate change-inspired Top Tower proposal which, if realized, could become the tallest building in the Czech Republic. "It is actually a post-apocalyptic message about what is happening around."<br></p>