Maritime Metropolis Barcelona’s Torres, Towers, Türme Vol 2 (Humane Architecture)
Maritime Metropolis Barcelona’s Torres, Towers, Türme Vol 2; Honolulu’s Potential to Learn from Barcelona’s Gone Vertical (Humane Architecture). The host for this show was Martin Despang. The guest was Martin Anzellini García-Reyes.
The discussion was: Honolulu and Barcelona are both martime metropolises with many more similarities particulary exploding cost of living under not unsimilar climatically privileged circumstances. While Honolulu had not built tall before Aloha tower as its first highrise far into the beginning of the 20th century Barcelona has a thousand-year tradition building tall. The show shares the related observations by Martin Anzellini in Barcelona in 2008 and Martin Despang in 2021. Given the increasingly generic fossil formalist design of high-rises in Honolulu this show’s mission is to look above and beyond its too often limited horizon and Barcelona is a related exquisite example to take us to. Why such a debate is so crucially critical is demonstrated by the upfront in this episode having to be introduced just completed once again exclusive invasive hermetic ‘Ililani’ condo project on the Eva end of Kakaako which HCDA ironically uses as a precedential referential argument to have selected them for their ’99 Year Leasehold Pilot Project’.
The takeaway was: While Barcelona has way fewer high-rises particularly the ones from recent times are climatically and culturally way more sophisticated so that Honolulu can literally and figuratively learn much from them but ultimately realizing than new high-rises might not be the way to continue but the good old residential perimeter block to be introduced / reinvented.
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