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97 — Richard Rogers' Reith Lecture — Cities for a Small Planet

About Buildings + Cities

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Bannam Ballery, Bannam. Rainan.

The shape of the building is part of the function, soit' it's for a reason like am you know, lecobuses the kind of modernists idea of structural honesty. The we we make them in these kind of aesthetic forms, because that's the most utilitarian thing to do. Ta gos, whether it is or isn't. Which means we want sort of stream lined blobs a in the case of richard rogers,. He is very interested in a a facade which is kind of very deep, broken up lots of layers. It would ideally, aesthetically be probably a wide mesh and then some pipes, and then some panels, and then a glass screen,

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