Tall Buildings Artistically Considered? High Rises and the Historic Urban Landscape

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://upcluster.org/doc/icup2020/zbornik-icup-2020.pdf" target="_blank" >http://upcluster.org/doc/icup2020/zbornik-icup-2020.pdf</a>

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Tall Buildings Artistically Considered? High Rises and the Historic Urban Landscape

Original language description

Tall buildings are a controversial topic in urban planning, particularly when the construction site is located in an urban conservation area or close to it. Heritage conservation measures in many countries often regulate the height of new buildings to preserve a traditional, iconic urban panorama. For some, the new building´s height in and of itself is a violation of heritage values; others see high-rises as trademarks of progress. Both attitudes are quite recent. In the past, belltowers, spires, minarets, and domes enriched urban skylines without compromising their visual coherence and what was perceived as beauty. The paper explores various aspects of the current debate, tracing its history back to the turn of the twentieth century when the office and residential skyscraper enlarged the family of tall buildings. Unlike in America, these two types of buildings remained rare in Europe until the 1950s, and the exceptions often involved a symbolical underpinning. Later on, high-rises became part of the mass building industry in Europe, changing the urban environment significantly. After 2000, despite the high cost and public disapproval, highrises are still constructed and designed often with the ambition to compete with traditional landmarks. The paper mentions several current projects (in Prague, Olomouc, Vienna, and Seville) where the controversy affected heritage protection on various scales (NGOs, local policies, and World Heritage advisory bodies). Is the height of new structures the most significant threat to preserved heritage values? Is their contrasting image inevitable? And what about high-rises that deserve heritage protection?

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60401 - Arts, Art history

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

ICUP2020: Proceedings

ISBN

978-86-88601-52-8

ISSN

2738-0548

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

17-24

Publisher name

Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Nis

Place of publication

Niš

Event location

Niš

Event date

Nov 13, 2020

Type of event by nationality

EUR - Evropská akce

UT code for WoS article

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