这是立足于上海空中“行走”,了解上海的新观察。一群建筑学背景师生,致力于为公众提供认知城市的多样视角。他们精选了上海城区18处19栋地标建筑,以及22栋具有历史意义的建筑,通过航拍摄影,向读者呈现难得一见的城市新景象。这些摄影将城市片段连接成可感知、有温度的城市记忆,并梳理其中蕴含的城市发展脉络。 This book endeavors to take readers walking over vast city sceneries throughout Shanghai. A group of teachers and students with architectural backgrounds have determined to provide the public with various and unique observational methods for recognizing and perceiving the city, 18 key aerial public spaces, 19 landmarks, and 22 significant historical buildings in urban areas of Shanghai, are selected meticulously. The showpieces of aerial photography collected in the book present readers with rare point of view over the city. Segments are connected, fractions are integrated, and thus, the city has become discernible. While sorting out the progression of urban developments, the precipitated memories of the city have been awaken and waltzed into people’s hearts.
In many mythology stories, people have imagined traveling freely through the city on a magic flying carpet. In 1980, there was an idea of flying carpet-like personal aircraft soaring across the sky; in 1982, police cars appeared shuttling aerially in the movie Blade Runner. Flying automobiles have become the form of future transportation in all kinds of fantasies. Shanghai Skywalkers allows you to experience the fun of “flying” and to “read” Shanghai, from a special perspective.
Unless one is a 1,000-meter-tall giant, flying is the only way to navigate a city full of skyscrapers. In fact, walking on the “Shanghai Skywalkers” is just like flying without obstacles. The walkers will see the city as a great piece of “Land art” in three dimensions from multiple perspectives. During the leisurely wandering in the sky, “new continents” might be discovered in the populated city. Walking through the aerial public space in the center of Shanghai, the broad views from a high altitude definitely will bring people surprises and new visual impact. The “flight routes” in Shanghai Skywalkers cover many skyscraper landmarks in Shanghai. Standing on the public space of high-rise buildings, people can look much further like a bird overlooks the city vastly. It seems that nothing is left out of the view and the whole world is in your eyes. Here, we talk about the history of this city, historical buildings, hustle and bustle, traffic, urban life, and its renewal, with appreciations, explanations, impressions, and comments.
Shanghai Skywalkers contains many precious photographic works some are taken from a rare perspective which hardly can be reached in daily life. A scholar once said: “Photography is sometimes more authentic than reality, through the camera, photography teaches people a new method to observe the world.” Photography is reflecting and creating a reality at the same time; therefore, “reading” photographs is to understand how to relate the objects in camera lens with the surrounding environment and culture; more importantly, it is to understand the connotation of the images, to reveal the reality hidden behind photographs and the reality created by photography. From this perspective, photography is not only documentary or performance; architectural photography creates reality through new visual representations.
Aerial photography atlases exist for many cities and regions, and I like to collect them as well. Usually, they are captivating from an aerial perspective, but Shanghai Skywalkers goes much deeper into the city public space and much better explains and interprets the significance of city public space.
First of all, Shanghai Skywalkers reviews the history by viewing the Bund. The Bund is an important landmark of Shanghai. It has witnessed the history of Shanghai for hundreds of years. The next stop is the Old Town area. That is the root of Shanghai. After visiting these places, we ?y to the South Bund to overlook the Huangpu River and look at the Lujiazui CBD in Pudong. We then proceed to the Suzhou Creek to visit the Ferris wheel in the Jing’an Joy City. Afterwards, we fly to the Radisson Blu Hotel Shanghai New World, another landmark of Shanghai, on West Nanjing Road. On the top roof of the hotel, we can overlook “the first street of China, East Nanjing Road.” The following spot will be another central activity area in Shanghai, Xujiahui, where we can study the historical changes of the city.
Subsequently, back to the rocket-shaped Tomorrow Square Shanghai Skywalkers focuses on the modern evolution of urban space. The People’s Square is the center of Shanghai, and over it we can overlook the Shanghai Museum, the Shanghai Grand Theatre, and the Shanghai History Museum from different perspectives that people wouldn’t normally see. Inadvertently, we shift our sight to the Global Harbor, where we can look down at the Caoyang Community, a landmark of the 1950s. Later, we ?y to Cloud Nine, enjoying the scenery of Zhongshan Park in the haze. Now we arrive at Réel Department Store, Jing’an Temple and Jing’an Park are in the views. At last, we land onto the Jin Jiang Tower Hotel which was built in 1988. The “申” (shen, the Chinese abbreviation of Shanghai)-shaped elevated road network is a complete entirety in our eyes. After the Reform and Opening-up, Shanghai accelerated the construction of urban highways to further promote urban development. From the revolving restaurant on the top floor of Jin Jiang Tower Hotel, we can directly feel the impact of the construction of the elevated road on the urban space. The Dapuqiao area is a precedent for the Reform and Opening-up and the reconstruction of old districts. Here, we can feel the changes of the city from the Pullman Shanghai Skyway Hotel, and look back at the Huangpu River from another angle.
The third part of Shanghai Skywalkers interprets the new appearance of the vertically growing city, taking in the Oriental Pearl Radio & TV Tower, Lujiazui CBD, the governance of Suzhou Creek, the North Bund public space, Power Station of Art in the Post-World Expo Park, and the Hongqiao CBD as examples; each of them shows the evolution of urban space in the period of transformation.
The authors of this book are a group of passionate and aspiring teachers and students majoring in architecture. Taking 18 key public open spaces as observation points, they use photographs to present readers a unique aerial view while to narrate the development of the city and provide a new perspective to read and perceive Shanghai.
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