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’s creation slowly being reclaimed by nature.
According to Tomáš Císař, the lead architect of Black n´ Arch studio, which designed the structure, the building also serves as a pedestal for the ship.
— Czech Radio
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 Trigema have proposed a post-apocalyptic vision of an enormous rusty shipwreck sculpture leaning upright against, and seemingly crashing into, a high-rise building.
"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 Černý, 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."
1. wtf. 2.This strain of near-future apocalypse is crazy interesting. This sort of narrative architecture blows past green virtue-signalling projects and represents our future for what it actually looks like. It's bleak! We are heading towards collapse! Pretending that incremental increases of facade foliage will save the world? Even more LEED buildings? Nowhere as impactful as this. Obviously this building doesn't save the world by itself, and is a bit too doomer, but it at least acknowledges that our future isn't going to be an ecosocialist solarpunk utopia with the slow-n-steady pace we're going currently. It's a little metaphorically shallow but does help normalize discussions of viable alternatives rather than continuing rampant capitalism till collapse. 3. Does anyone remember Vasily Klyukin? He's the Elon Musk version of this.
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1. wtf. 2.This strain of near-future apocalypse is crazy interesting. This sort of narrative architecture blows past green virtue-signalling projects and represents our future for what it actually looks like. It's bleak! We are heading towards collapse! Pretending that incremental increases of facade foliage will save the world? Even more LEED buildings? Nowhere as impactful as this. Obviously this building doesn't save the world by itself, and is a bit too doomer, but it at least acknowledges that our future isn't going to be an ecosocialist solarpunk utopia with the slow-n-steady pace we're going currently. It's a little metaphorically shallow but does help normalize discussions of viable alternatives rather than continuing rampant capitalism till collapse. 3. Does anyone remember Vasily Klyukin? He's the Elon Musk version of this.
I agree... WTF is a great critique of this building.
Jokes, I swear down I left a comment about how this is what a PR company working for architects would release as a bait and switch from a controversial project. It got reedited and a star, and a Gnome, I take that as a certain real original take.
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