[urbaanin keskustelun mekka] Suomen johtava rakentamisaiheinen valokuvaus- ja keskustelusivusto.
Mikä on Taloforum?
TANDE kirjoitti:Herr Catani, did you take that picture? The tower of that sweet little old City Hall of Tallinn up against that growing backdrop of Tall Ones?Herr Catani kirjoitti:
Joggeri kirjoitti:Hähhäää!Certainly there are a lot of big cities with very few high-rise buildings, take Rome or Lyon for instance. Even Paris had no scrapers at all until Tour Montparnasse and la Defénce later on. The "villageness" here is not caused so much by the lack of height, as it is due to the lack of density and the small size of the inner city. Since the suburbinasation started, Hki became a junction of towns as opposed to a unified city. I agree with ch1le 100% when he said that he'd rather see more dense quarters than a few mini scrapers.
It's nice to see that there are more people, that thinks like I do... Helsinki looks like a wide spread little town, because it doesn't have any good looking highrises. Or even midrises... Even Tallinn, which is less than half the size of Finnish "metropolitan area" looks a lot lot better... I'm sad to admit that it looks better in the older areas, as well as in the newer areas. We can't do much to the old areas anymore, but we still have a chance to make the new areas look like we have never had more money to put on architecture. (Which is true by the way) That amazes me, why Finnish standard of living doesn't reflect on Finnish architecture...? And why are people so afraid of high rises....? Or is it just the old grannies that are active in these kind of things..?
Molox:-----------------------------------------
The "villageness" here is not caused so much by the lack of height, as it is due to the lack of density and the small size of the inner city.
As for the standard of living, Norwegians are a lot richer than Finns, and DT Oslo isn't really all that different from Hki in terms architectural quality.