Hanging gardens of the modern world!
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
I do remember reading about the hanging gardens of Babylon as one of the splendors of the ancient world. Maybe I should say that they were one of the wonders of the ancient world. The point here is that, they were considered as an architectural wonders several centuries back. So here is someone whose design and innovation in no way match the splendor or the green magic of the hanging gardens and yet they are considered a modern day creative brilliance! I’m sorry to say this but if this idea got an award, then maybe I should have nominated my mom long back for ‘The best green architect of the year’ long back.
A young and budding designer from Tokyo has decided that there were too many empty beams that were too clean and not useful, in the city of Tokyo. So he decided to go and grow some moss on them (A very clean idea indeed). Then this young ‘architect’ named Taketo Shimohigoshi went o to win 2007 AR Award for Emerging Architecture for what is called ‘innovative genius of his design’. Now I’m not someone who is an architect and neither am I trying to show down a very young creative mind. The idea is good, but to hail it as something awesome would be truly an insult to our intelligence.