A NEW “LARKIN” BUILDING – BUFFALO – NEW YORK

由专筑网缕夕，刘庆新编译

提交日期：2017年6月8日
注册：2017年5月1日
语言：英语
位置：纽约，美国
奖品：出版和展览
类型：开放型

事实上，陀斯妥也夫斯基（Fedor Mikhaylovitch, 1821-1881，俄国小说家）是对的，他所写下的：身为人类的我们，建成水晶宫后，又拆除了它。

建成后不到50年，弗兰克•劳埃德•赖特著名的拉金大楼被拆除，为了对车位有紧急需求的社会创造“空间”。

瞧 ……他用尽他毕生智慧……当然，还有更多证明了人类具有不可否认的智慧。

今年，我们纪念弗兰克•劳埃德•赖特诞辰的第150年。

当然，我们可以用许多方式庆祝他，但也许有一个有趣的方式是发起一个国际比赛，在一个建立一个新的“拉金”办公楼，在这个标志性建筑的网站上。

这肯定是一个必要的救赎行动，一个救赎的行为。

是的，我们没有赖特的机会，有那么一个客户，当时是世界领先的“肥皂和厕所制备”的制造商。事实上，我们没有任何客户，除了我们试图赎回一个巨大的损失，并同时庆祝，一个伟大的建筑师。

但我们要求你不仅仅是设计一个伟大的新办公楼：我们还要求你反思在晚期资本主义里工作的性质。 也许从一些智慧的话（这个时刻是真实的）刻在前拉金大厦的墙壁上，我们可以反思工作和玩耍之间的关系，以及两者之间的关系和创造力，从全人类未来的幸福时代开始。

所以，请想象一种新的“办公”建筑，也许甚至是一种新的作品，现在这是可能和可取的。也许办公楼看来仅仅是为了鲁道夫人。

如果拉金大楼不仅设想为一个伟大的建筑，同时还是以某种方式的一个新的工作气氛，也许我们100年后的今天应该尝试。

也许是一个“潜在”大厦，如果我们要玩这个词...？
潜在破坏，也许，一个不能令人信服的资本主义...？
潜在，也许，为某种“新的视野”为人类...？
潜在在“社会现象”的闪光灯下...？
潜在，现在，为了颠覆和扰乱...？

只是想象使用另一个新结构，来庆祝表示对赖特的敬仰是不够的。

也许我们可以想象别的东西，一个地方，工作和玩耍之间有一种和平，目的不会是钱钱钱，但如果可能，则给人的生活一些意义。

你可以选择任何你想要的功能：或者你可以想象新的功能或新的战略，一种新的人类活动，一种新的人类生活，一种新的“办公”建筑。

想象一下，亲爱的建筑师！

提交您的工作的截止日期是2017年6月8日，那天恰好是赖特诞生的第150周年。 为了获取更多的细节和网站的AutoCAD平面，您需要在5月1日之前注册。 建筑师的注册费为40欧元，学生的注册费为20欧元。注册将自动使用我们网站上的注册表。将有一个国际评审团，其成员将在稍后宣布。 如果您有任何疑问，请与我们联系。


Submission: June 08, 2017
Registration: May 01, 2017
Language: English
Location: New York, US
Prizes: Publication & Exhibition
Type: Open

Indeed, Dostoevsky was right, in Notes from the Underground: we human beings, after we build the Crystal Palace, we demolish it.
Less than 50 years after being built, the famous Larkin Building by F. L. Wright was demolished, in order to create “space” for an unavoidable parking lot.
Voila… Homo Sapiens at almost his best… although, of course, there are even more blatant proofs of the undeniable wisdom of the human race.
This year, we are celebrating 150 years since F. L. Wright’s birthday, on June 8th.
We could celebrate him in many ways, of course, but perhaps an interesting way would be to launch an international competition to build a new “Larkin” office building, on the very site that once housed this iconic building.
It will be, sure, a redeeming action, an act of redemption. Perhaps a necessary one.
Yes, we do not have the chance F. L. Wright had, to have a client who at the time was the world leading manufacturer of “Soap and Toilet Preparations.” In fact, we don’t have any client, except our desire to attempt to redeem a great loss and to celebrate, simultaneously, a great architect.
But we ask you more than just to design a great new office building: we also ask you to reflect on the nature of work, in late Capitalism. Maybe inspired by some of the words of wisdom (this time real) inscribed on the walls of the former Larkin Building, we could reflect on the relationship between work and play, and between both and creativity, at the beginning of the Third Millennium.
So please imagine a new kind of “office” building, perhaps even for a new kind of work, that is possible and desirable, now. Perhaps an office building for Homo Ludens.
If the Larkin Building envisioned not only a great building, but also, in a certain way, a new working ethos, maybe we should try the same, 100 years later.

Maybe a “Lurking” Building, if we are to play with the word…?!
Lurking to sabotage, perhaps, an unconvincing Capitalism…?!
Lurking, maybe, for some kind of “new vision” for humanity…?!
Lurking beneath the glitter of “The Society of Spectacle”…?!
Lurking, for now, in order to subvert and disrupt…?!

It would not be enough to just imagine another glorious structure celebrating the same old gods of money and profit.
Maybe we could envision something else, a place where between Work and Play there would be some kind of peace and where the purpose would not be Money, Money, Money, but giving some meaning, if possible, to human life.
You could serve any function you want: or you could imagine new functions, or new strategies, for a new kind of human activity, for a new kind of human life, for a new kind of “office” building.
Imagine, dear architect!

The deadline to submit your work is June 8th, 2017, when there will be exactly 150 years since F. L. Wright was born. In order to receive more details and an AutoCAD plan of the site, you need to register by May 1st. There will be a registration fee of 40 euro for architects and 20 euro for the students. The registration will take place automatically using the registration form on our website. There will be an international jury, whose members will be announced at a later date. If you have any questions, please contact us.


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