No, Not in Łódź

No, Not in Łódź

It's not on Włókiennicza. This, as a living, is a global version of the common memory. You are surprised because she is joyful, creative, full of inventiveness, bursting with the freshness of associations.

“In the 1970s, New Orleans tried to stimulate investment in what later became known as the Warehouse District. It was expected that Piazza d'Italia Will cause a wave of investment in the Warehouse District and throughout downtown New Orleans, will arouse interest in downtown."(...)

"In 1974, Charles Moore, a prominent contemporary architect, former dean of the Yale School of Architecture and a proponent of a witty, exuberant design language later termed postmodern architecture was approached to help realize the vision of New Orleans' Italian-American community. In close collaboration with three young architects then working with the Perez companies in New Orleans – Malcolm Heard, Ronald Filson and Allen Eskew – Moore conceived of a public fountain in the form of the Italian peninsula, surrounded by multiple hemicyclical colonnades, a clock tower, and a campanile and Roman temple – the last two expressed in abstract, minimalist, space frame fashion. The central fountain, located in the middle of a city block, was accessed in two directions: via a tapering passage extending from Poydras Street, or through an arched opening in the clock tower located where Commerce Street terminates at Lafayette Street. The fountain and its surrounding colonnades playfully appropriated classical forms and orders, executing them in modern materials (e.g. stainless steel, neon) or kinetically (e.g. suggesting the acanthus leaves of traditional Corinthian capitals through the use of water jets).

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_d%27Italia_(New_Orleans

On Piazza d'Italia Managed to fit the memory/image of the entire old culture. What is useful in the New World.

On the eve of 2024, it slowly begins. It's time to plan – on an architectural scale – Piazza della Vittoria su...  What a difference, su this or that.  

It can be a nice, ergonomically and ecologically designed addition to many Warehouse Districts in many cities of our New World.

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