New Substances Information Technology and the Renewal of Architecture. “ The basic theme of the article is that the renewal of architecture we have been experiencing over the past few years, is not merely a matter of taste, fashion or language but that, in fact, new substances are being affirmed and, with these, new crises and opportunities ”. The article shows us that if we start from real crises, the importance of our solution stands on how functional it is and not only based on the esthetical part. In every era the big ideas came from big crises. This is how the modern architecture was born. Turning crises in opportunities. We are facing the same problem again and this time we are not finding the solution on the industry but on the information. The information that is changing the architecture so fast. Today’s society is globally known as the information society. The author collects all the arguments on how today’s crisis is transforming the opportuni...
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Chicago Riverwalk The main Branch of the Chicago River has a long and storied history that in many ways mirrors the development of Chicago itself. Once a meandering marshy stream, the river first became an engineered channel to support the industrial transformation of the city. Over the last decade, the role of the river has been evolving with the Chicago riverwalk project: an initiative to reclaim the Chicago river for the ecological, recreational and economic benefit of the city. The goal of embracing the river as a recreational amenity seemed impossible years ago given the river’s high level of pollution. But t oday that vision is becoming reality. Recent improvements in river water quality and the increased intensity of public recreational use signal growing life along the river, demanding new connections to the water’s edge. Before the project was build, this aria didn’t get people’s attention. Now more and more th...