ABOUT

The scale of the urban landscape has gone beyond that of a person, whether resident, tourist or observer, and this happens when a city has evolved into a metropolis. When we have to transfer between lifts in order to reach the top of a skyscraper; when we sit on a train for an hour and the landscape still hasn’t escaped the grasp of the city; when Gothic churches, like remnants, manifest themselves shamelessly beside high-rise skyscrapers; and when individuals find themselves lost among the petrified architecture, the metropolis seems to be taking a step too far, leaving its inhabitants behind. Humankind finds the scale of everything, from a hamburger to a building, oversized. Inevitably, a rapidly changing social media and an excitement-seeking pop culture will have a huge impact on the architectural style found within the metropolis. To live in a mega city such as New York is to live in a heterotopia which attracts increasing numbers of dreamers, investors and conquerors who come and attempt to survive, yet with the side effect of creating more chaos and requiring tremendous effort to keep everything somewhat organised. The metropolis becomes the noisiest place; a place where the scale of the architecture has grown absurdly immense and exceeds the understanding of human beings.