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- 关键字：I love the plaza when all is still ,and one can see the reflection of endless rows of trees in the c 来源：上海企业画册设计公司 发布日期：2008-03-03 18:12
- I love the plaza when all is still ,and one can see the reflection of endless rows of trees
in the cleer pools.
I may have startled architect Harry Cobb of Pei,Cobb,Freed when I announced on my first visit
to the Bank Tower site :’you will walk on water !’Rarely before had I been struck so soundly and quickly by a vision for a project.
My first impression was a reaction to everything the place was not. Yes,this arid urban plaza
in the heart of Dallas could be transformed into acres of cascading,cooling water. It was
just what the city needed :an urban swamp. Not a replication of nature, but a compacted，experience of nature so unusual and so refreshing that it would draw visitors from outside
the city to come in for picnics;office workers would wenture out of air-confitioned hallways to be enveloped in the clamour of falling water and the particles
of moisture carried on the breeze; people would stay downtown at night to attend parties
amongst the illuminated cypress trees and glowing fountains.
Fortunately,the owners and architects agreed that their sixty-storey glass tower would benefit form such a surrounding.We knew what the end result should
be a weaving together of water,trees and pavement into an animated compostion that could
change by the hour and by the season, a place in direct contrast with hard constancy of the
city .We then had to work backwards and examine exactly how the concept would fit the site.
The grade drops twelve feet between the two streets;this had to be accommodated in a manner
that would not disrup theavy pedestrian traffic through the site. Form this condition came
the realization that not only would the site be all water ,but it would actually be a
giant waterfall ,or a series of smaller drops ,to negotiate the grade change .
Under the direction of Peter Ker Walker ,our design team worked for three years to develop
a site diagram that included a netbook of wide slate-stepped walkways and ramps .The walkways meet in the middle of the site to form a central
plaza for large gatherings.
