2024-12-22T03:30:13-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/142608574/neil-denari-s-chroma_topia-generally-different-towers-for-shanghai-research-studio Sponsor 2015-12-07T12:51:00-05:00 >2017-07-14T19:16:27-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6g/6gllnm2deppzswp8.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><strong>This post is brought to you by <a href="http://www.aud.ucla.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">UCLA Architecture and Urban Design</a>.</strong></em><br>&nbsp;<br><p>&ldquo;<em>Chromatopia, at first, aims to be a collective project designed by eight individuals, a collective enterprise that negotiates its individual differences within a regime of agreement. The utopic overtones (or undertones?) openly engage the premise of a new and different world, yet the world depicted here is made up of the existing impulses of Shanghai. More towers, more programs, more color &mdash; to offer at a political level more publicness too, which may be more atopic in its mission, that is, to make a borderless utopia, one that would infect the life and spirit of the city.</em>&rdquo; &mdash; Neil Denari</p> <p><img src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/sr/srehzku9ttvx4htk.jpg"></p> <p>&uarr;&nbsp;Chroma_topia: Generally Different Towers For Shangai installation at RUMBLE, 1025</p> <p>Two defining images of Chinese modernity have been circulating the media circuit for the past thirty years: 1) the image of a seemingly endless stretch of vertical density on the form of high rise towers, captured in elevation as the stacking of bal...</p>