The Babylon Times
Unit 1
Sunday, 20 July 2014
A NEW CITY IS BORN By Archana Moorthy & Isabella Marques Castro
The new skyline of Babylon looks down into its reflected past - London
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ven before the debris from the war could be cleared, architects and designers were busy at their drafting tables. After heavy speculation and thought, the creative minds of the city came to an agreement. A fusion of the past and present was decided as the final verdict for the rebuilding of our new city of Babylon. So what does this fusion mean to the city and most importantly the people of the city? What should we expect at the inauguration? As the leaders of the city work that out, we will update you on the varied processes of rebuilding. Every city needs some fundamental spaces. Since it is now the age of verticality and
compression, our architects and planners have taken the spaces which have an unprecedented horizontal history and made them vertical. The proposals were each approved by the most influential people within the city with Her Majesty at the helm. The ambitious young and the functional old have each had their say, with some of their decrees emerging alongside new governmental policies and laws. By the phase ‘fundamental space’, we are looking at the expanse that will dominate the city while creating a characteristic identity at the same time. Through building a new city we are also looking at reframing the needs and necessities in terms of 1
spaces and building typologies. The set of concepts and drawings that were revealed at the last press meeting was a bizarre amalgam. The architects are clearly redefining what the city needs in order to function and flourish. The proposals include a museum, an archive/cemetery hybrid and a surveillance tower apart from the conventional residential, commercial, leisure and Parliamentary spaces. The new skyline is to be dominated by gravity-defying, fluid, inverted, hybrid, panoramic and multi-elevation structures. The wild imagination of the quixotic architects is giving the engineers a run for their money as they turn ink on paper into an experiential reality.
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