Corridor 05 · Tech
What did you build that now builds you?
110 monuments in this corridor, ordered as the world is.
Rebuild a monument as techPlate 040 · Africa
Table Mountain Cableway stations
1997
040 · Cape Town, South Africa
techA rotating car to a flat mountain, because a city is organised around a geology.
Township traditional — Rhythms of Resistance, toyi-toyi climate
Plate 068 · Asia
CCTV Headquarters
2012
068 · Beijing, China
techA loop of offices that refused to be a tower.
Abing — The Moon Reflected on Second Spring
Plate 073 · Asia
Water Cube
2008
073 · Beijing, China
techA cube of bubbles, so water would have a building that looked like itself.
Guqin — High Mountains Flowing Water
Plate 074 · Asia
Canton Tower
2010
074 · Guangzhou, China
techA twisted lattice of a thousand feet, so a river city would have a new spine.
Guqin, Bo Ya — High Mountains Flowing Water
Plate 076 · Asia
Bank of China Tower
1990
076 · Hong Kong, China
techTriangles of glass like bamboo, because a bank wanted to look like growth.
Pipa traditional — Ambush from Ten Sides
Plate 079 · Asia
HSBC Building
1985
079 · Hong Kong, China
techAn office hung from masts, so a bank would have no columns and a lot of nerve.
Guqin, Bo Ya — High Mountains Flowing Water
Plate 084 · Asia
Jin Mao Tower
1999
084 · Shanghai, China
techA pagoda of steel, 88 floors, because a number can be a form.
Guqin, Bo Ya — High Mountains Flowing Water
Plate 085 · Asia
Oriental Pearl Tower
1994
085 · Shanghai, China
techSpheres on a needle, so a reopened city would have a toy of the future.
Jiangsu folk — Jasmine Flower
087 · Shanghai, China
techSoftware was given a spine and told to twist.
Abing (Hua Yanjun) — The Moon Reflected on Second Spring
Plate 095 · Asia
Chand Baori
9th c.
095 · Abhaneri, India
techA stepwell of 3,500 steps, because water in a desert is a monument.
Narsinh Mehta / Gandhi's hymn — Vaishnava Jana To
Plate 115 · Asia
Jantar Mantar Jaipur
1734
115 · Jaipur, India
techAstronomical instruments the size of buildings, because a king wanted the sky in masonry.
Hindustani night raga — Raga Yaman
Plate 119 · Asia
Howrah Bridge
1943
119 · Kolkata, India
techA cantilever of steel with no nuts, carrying a city's daily millions.
Narsinh Mehta / Gandhi's hymn — Vaishnava Jana To
Plate 123 · Asia
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus
1888
123 · Mumbai, India
techA railway cathedral of stone, because a colonial city wanted a station like a palace.
Hindustani night raga — Raga Yaman
Plate 143 · Asia
Yamanashi Press and Broadcasting Center
1966
143 · Kofu, Japan
techA metabolist plug-in of studios, as if a building were a service core that grew rooms.
Shakuhachi honkyoku — Honshirabe
Plate 155 · Asia
Abeno Harukas
2014
155 · Osaka, Japan
techJapan's tallest building, a station that grew until it was a city.
Yatsuhashi Kengyō — Rokudan no Shirabe
Plate 158 · Asia
21_21 Design Sight
2007
158 · Tokyo, Japan
techA fold of steel in a park, so design would have a quiet bunker.
Shakuhachi honkyoku — Honshirabe
Plate 159 · Asia
Fuji TV Headquarters
1996
159 · Tokyo, Japan
techA sphere caught in a lattice, so a television company would have a toy for a skyline.
Traditional — Sakura Sakura
Plate 162 · Asia
Mode Gakuen Cocoon Tower
2008
162 · Tokyo, Japan
techA cocoon of glass for students, as if a school should look like metamorphosis.
Traditional — Sakura Sakura
Plate 164 · Asia
National Museum of Western Art
1959
164 · Tokyo, Japan
techCorbusier's only building in the East, a museum as a cube of light.
Traditional — Sakura Sakura
Plate 167 · Asia
Sumida Hokusai Museum
2016
167 · Tokyo, Japan
techA slit of aluminium in an old neighbourhood, a museum as a folded sheet.
Shakuhachi honkyoku — Honshirabe
Plate 168 · Asia
Tokyo International Forum
1996
168 · Tokyo, Japan
techA glass ship of a forum, with a keel of trusses you can walk under.
Yatsuhashi Kengyō — Rokudan no Shirabe
Plate 169 · Asia
Tokyo Skytree
2012
169 · Tokyo, Japan
techThe tallest tower on earth, because a city of earthquakes still wanted a needle.
Tōru Takemitsu, climate of — Dawn Chorus