ARCU 4600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Pedestal, Lewis Mumford, Le Corbusier
21 Mar 2014
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Initiatives taken by municipal governments to revive downtown today"s lecture. Le corbusier thinking that ny towers are still too small wanted to really open up groundplane. Le corbusier"s proposal fro the rebuilding of st. 2. 5 millino quare feet of office space between two towers, banking pavilion and a shopping mall: four more towers have been added. East west streets in ny built at 4 to 5 stories as a solution and taller ones on north south: blocks long in east west direction, perfect grid for tall buildings. King st: the modernist approach is appropriate the blocks are like plans on which you organize buildings in a better way, a south facing building, no matter how low it is will still block sunlight. Office complexes were in the city but nto of it i. e. detroit"s renaissance center. 73 stories and then flanked by office towers: epitomizes trend of retreating from the street.
