Let me give you an example of how a city's surfaces affect the way we live in it. 我来举个例子看看一个城市的外观是如何影响人们生活方式的吧。 When I visited Salamanca in Spain, I gravitated to the Plaza Mayor at all hours of the d
Imagine that when you walked in here this evening, 想象一下当你在今晚步入这里时， you discovered that everybody in the room looked almost exactly the same: ageless, raceless, generically good-looking. 你发现所有在场的人看上去几乎
So one contemporary equivalent of the Plaza Mayor in Salamanca is the Place de la Défense in Paris, 说一个与萨拉曼卡的马约尔广场相较衡的现代广场，巴黎的协和广场， a windswept, glass-walled open space that office workers hurry throu
But the truth is that these are mostly one-offs, boutique projects, not easily reproduced at a global scale. 但事实是这些往往都只是个例，精品工程没办法轻易的在全球范围内普及。 And that is the point. When you use materials that have a
The firm Ennead clad the Utah Natural History Museum in Salt Lake City in copper and zinc, Ennead公司用铜和锌包裹了位于盐湖城的犹他自然历史博物馆， ores that have been mined in the area for 150 years and that also camouflage
But glass has a limited ability to be expressive. 但是玻璃的表现力毕竟是有局限的。 This is a section of wall framing a plaza in the pre-Hispanic city of Mitla, in southern Mexico. 这是在墨西哥南部前西班牙城米特拉一个广场外墙的一部分。 Those 2,
Now, I'm not against glass. It's an ancient and versatile material. 我并不是反对使用玻璃。玻璃毕竟是一种古老且通用性强的材料。 It's easy to manufacture and transport and install and replace and clean. 它们易于大量生产、运输、安装、替换和清洁。 It com
But that's getting harder to do, because cities are becoming smooth. 但这样的机会已经越来越少了，因为城市正在变得光滑。 New downtowns sprout towers that are almost always made of concrete and steel and covered in glass. 高塔在市中
