Pedestrian Footbridge System, Central

Development of Modern Architecture in Hong Kong. 香港現代建築的發展 Author: Edward Leung. 作者:梁以華 Date: June 2013. 日期:2013年6月 Case Study 4: Footbridge Systems in Central 案例4:中環行人天橋系統   Building / Site: Central 建築 /地點:中環 Theme: Mobility and Efficiency 主題:流動感及效率性  ...

Connaught Centre (now Jardine House)

Development of Modern Architecture in Hong Kong. 香港現代建築的發展 Author: Edward Leung. 作者:梁以華 Date: June 2013. 日期:2013年6月 Case Study 1: Jardine House in Central 案例1:怡和大廈 Building / Site: Jardine House (original name: Connaught Building) 建築 /地點:怡和大廈 (原名:康樂大廈) Theme: Mobility...

The Landmark

Development of Modern Architecture in Hong Kong. 香港現代建築的發展 Author: Edward Leung. 作者:梁以華 Date: June 2013. 日期:2013年6月 Case Study 2: Landmark in Central 案例2:置地廣場   Building / Site: Landmark 建築 /地點:置地廣場 Theme: Mobility and Efficiency 主題:流動感及效率性   Location: Made...

Multi-strata Metropolis: The Multi-level Indoor Pedestrian Spaces in Commercial Ensembles of Hong Kong Central

One of the popular aspirations of Modern Architecture is the democratic and super-efficient Mobility of pedestrians. Architects hoping to achieve this ideal were once busily designing three-dimensional arrays of footbridges interwoven with airy, day-lit, multi-leveled, mixed used public indoor spaces in dense ensembles of urban mega-buildings. This dream, once appearing merely in 1920s movies like the Metropolis, and later in post-war England on drawing boards of Archigram group, eventually found its way into a generation of North American commercial atrium, like the IDS Centre in Minneapolis (1973, Johnson) and Eaton Centre in Toronto (1974-81, Zeidler), and finally full-fledged realized in Central of Hong Kong.

Mobility in Modernity: The Concept of Mobility in Modern Architecture

The architectural image of transparent footbridges crisscrossing in mid-air between mega-buildings presented by Fritz Lang in his movie, Metropolis, in 1927, was one of the most vivid inspirations of urban architecture of the 20th Century. The sarcastic moral hinted by Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times was that, modernity relies on ruthlessly increasing urban efficiency to bring about setting people free from rural poverty.

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