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DANIEL LIBESKIND
丹尼尔·里伯斯金(Daniel Libeskind)
ON THE TOUR MONTPARNASSE, PARIS
巴黎蒙帕纳斯大楼
“It’s legendary for being the most hated building in Paris. I want to defend it not because it’s a particularly beautiful tower, but because of the idea it represents. Parisians panicked when they saw it, and when they abandoned the tower they also abandoned the idea of a high-density sustainable city. Because they exiled all future highrises to some far neighborhood like La Défense, they were segregating growth. Parisians reacted aesthetically, as they are wont to do, but they failed to consider the consequences of what it means to be a vital, living city versus a museum city. People sentimentalize their notions of the city, but with the carbon footprint, the waste of resources, our shrinking capacity, we have no choice but to build good high-rise buildings that are affordable. It’s not by coincidence that people are going to London now not just for work but for the available space. No young company can afford Paris. Maybe Tour Montparnasse is not a work of genius, but it signified a notion of what the city of the future will have to be.”
“它是出了名了巴黎最遭恨建筑。我之所以想为它辩护，不是因为它是个分外漂亮的大厦，而是因为它所代表的理念。巴黎人被它吓懵了，但当他们抛弃这座大厦时，他们也抛弃了高密度可持续城市的观念。他们把所有的摩天大楼都驱逐到拉德芳斯之类的偏远城区，这是要决绝于发展。巴黎人做出了一种审美反应，他们一直是这样，但他们没有考虑过，要成为一个有生气、有活力的城市，而不是博物馆城市，需要付出怎样的代价。人对城市的看法是情绪化的，但由于碳足迹、资源浪费和生产力的缩减，我们别无选择，必须去建造物美价廉的高楼大厦。现在，人们纷纷涌向伦敦，这并非偶然，他们不仅为了工作，也为了更多的空间。现在，年轻的企业没法承担在巴黎的开销。蒙帕纳斯大楼也许不是天才之作，但它象征着一个观念，就是未来的城市只能是这样。”
