Buildings Are Only Human
When it’s too expensive to demolish the old building – or you just can’t be bothered – it can be easier to just put the new building right on top of it.
I took this photo years ago in Nishi-Shinjuku but happened to pass by fairly recently. The vacant block is still vacant and the old building is still entombed in the new. Soon, by the look of things, it will be time for a third building.
Buildings are not just planks and bricks and artifacts; our buildings are us.
If you’re interested in how things come to be this way, you’ll probably love Stewart Brand’s How Buildings Learn.
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Posted to Oh, the Humanity • 2002.06.08 (Sat) • 00:11
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