Bothands, I'm at odds with your comment...
'More interesting designers' - as in what they where? their names? their design?
If you look closer at the designs you will notice that the scheme presented by Girot e.g. was not a functional one in terms of ecology (being green is not only about putting green color and water channels on a scheme - but how they actually work as a sustainable design).
The channels are flipped - not oriented to work with the Don River - this would create the largest moqquito habitat in the northern hemisphere....which is probably the main reason they did not succeed.
Furthermore, they proposed 5 seperate linear - isolated islands..which is set up for failure in terms of urban design
the architecture itself is quite boring - one prototype - a la corbu on the water...
So...the team may be more interesting...but their proposal was the weakest...
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Congrats.
Too bad a team with more interesting designers didn't win, like those that were part of Girot's team -- e.g. Jurgen Mayer and Rodolphe el Khoury.
Bothands, I'm at odds with your comment...
'More interesting designers' - as in what they where? their names? their design?
If you look closer at the designs you will notice that the scheme presented by Girot e.g. was not a functional one in terms of ecology (being green is not only about putting green color and water channels on a scheme - but how they actually work as a sustainable design).
The channels are flipped - not oriented to work with the Don River - this would create the largest moqquito habitat in the northern hemisphere....which is probably the main reason they did not succeed.
Furthermore, they proposed 5 seperate linear - isolated islands..which is set up for failure in terms of urban design
the architecture itself is quite boring - one prototype - a la corbu on the water...
So...the team may be more interesting...but their proposal was the weakest...
thanks LANY for the perceptive analysis. bothhands, sexy architecture doesn't make good landscapes.
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