2024-12-22T02:01:59-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/2530190/city-of-sound-visits-linked-hybrid-by-steven-holl-architects Nam Henderson 2011-04-11T13:15:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/kd/kd3oburch65db26q.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Linked Hybrid is designed with the clear intent of carving public space out of "monofunctional" private housing &mdash; and formally constructed in porous fashion to signal and direct this &mdash; yet the social and cultural patterns which overlay, occupy and appropriate the built form deny this idea entirely. This is most obvious in the form of gun-toting guards; more subtle again in the expensive furniture shops that dominate the ground-plane.</p></em><br /><br /><p> After visiting Holl's super-structure Hill was struck by the difference between the intended urban porosity in terms the architectural design and the reality of the tension between public/private development in contemporary Beijing.</p>