First there was thereplica of Lyons , France , being make in Dubai ; it would be a replicant city “ of about700 acres , roughly the size of it of the Latin Quarter of Paris , ” and it would “ hold squares , restaurants , cafes and museums . ”
Now , though , we determine that a Formosan firm has been “ secretly ” copying an entire UNESCO - heel village in Austria , called Hallstatt . Residents of the original town are “ scandalized,”Der Spiegelreports , by these “ plan to replicate the Greenwich Village - include its famous lake - in the southern Chinese responsibility of Guangdong . ”
After all , in addition to the uncanny experience of seeing your buildings , street , sidewalks , and even tree repeated on the other side of the world , “ creating an precise duplicate of a city may not be sound , accord to Hans - Jörg Kaiser from Icomos Austria , the national board for monument conservation under UNESCO . ‘ The sound position still ask to be examined , ’ he said . build raw structures base on pic is sound , he explained , but owners must give their permission for them to be assess . ”
Indeed , Der Spiegel adds that “ ‘ spying ’ by Chinese architect would not have been conspicuous in Hallstatt , where there are up to 800,000 visitor each year who ‘ photograph everything and everyone , ' ” according to the town ’s mayor . This invariant , everyday documentation - an archive of the quotidian , rivalingUlysses - could thus be put to alternative use , not as a seed for nostalgia or as a solicitation of personal souvenirs , but as a means for generating expression diagram .
Take a flavour at somephotosof other Formosan gemination spaces , include the picture - favorable Thames Town , modeled after an English small town ( “ when Thames Town was complete in 2006 not everyone was happy about it , ” we read . “ One English woman complain that her fish and chips restaurant had been copied in exact detail ” ) .
( ViaPeggy Nelson ) .
Top paradigm : The original Hallstatt , Austria ; picture courtesy ofDer Spiegel . This post originally appeared onBLDGBLOG .
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