附上一篇一個英國人對北京首都機場三航站啟用的評論,文章不長,提了很多觀點,例如:
1。英國人在北京拿了不少建築業務;北京有超強的公權力;
2。中國人仍然相信風水;
3。中國採用了美式的建設方式,公路(汔車)+機場(計劃中10年內還有97個機場);
4。中國每5天啟用一座火力發電場;
5。中國一胎化政策。。。。
作者給了一個標題:北京將進入一個不永續的未來
英國與中國隔了一個地球,但在華南暴雪帶給澎湖漁民寒害,沙塵暴直接帶來空氣中戴奧辛增量的台灣,我們能做什麼? 想想吧!
Beijing flies into an unsustainable future(by Gus Alexander)
http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sto ... gdailynews
It’s that man again. This time it is only the biggest building ever built. On time, within budget – and, from the photographs I’ve seen, it looks sensational as well. Unusually for a Foster building, new Terminal 3 building at Beijing Capital International Airport is in colour, to keep in with the general traditions of Chinese buildings and with feng shui in particular.
I knew that the feng shui man had a look over Norman (as he was then) Foster’s plans for the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank, but I only recently discovered that when he approached I.M.Pei, the American-Chinese architect for the Bank of China building next door – which now dwarfs it – he was sent packing with a “We don’t believe all that mediaeval nonsense any more” flea in his ear.
To give you an idea of the length of the consultation process in China, Foster’s Beijing airport terminal was built in less time than it took just to hold the inquiry into a third runway at Heathrow. Actually, so was Kansai airport. Even so, it’s a pretty amazing achievement. Particularly as it has taken me 11 months to get planning approval to put another floor on a Victorian building in Westminster.
The engineer on the airport, Arup in some guise, is also building the Herzog & de Meuron “bird’s nest” stadium and the Rem Koolhaas media centre. So it’s quite a busy time for British builders in Beijing, one way and another. Let’s hope we get our own buildings finished as efficiently for the 2012 Olympics.
Frankly, I find the whole idea of the Chinese technological revolution pretty scary. It is all very well me dutifully putting in a compact fluorescent lightbulb here and there, but China is opening a new coal-fired power station every five days.
Beijing airport is supposed to be sustainable. I am not really sure what a sustainable airport is. It is not particularly reassuring (except for airport builders, no doubt) to discover that China is planning to build a few more airports over the next 10 years – well, 97 more airports, in fact. Will all these be sustainable? Or will they be built by the home team on the Trabant model? Airports, like motorways, generate traffic.
There is a “green city” being built somewhere in China on all the soundest ecological principles, but most of the development one reads about seems to be on the American model. Cars. Roads. More cars. Carbon. We in the developed West have had three-car families for years – why shouldn’t the Chinese?
It occurs to me that one of the by-blows of Mao’s “one child per family” policy is that these days the whole place must be run by people who have no extended families. Everyone is an only child. And only children, much more than the rest of us, are used to getting what they want.
That seems to be what is happening in China. So, while it is great that the showpiece entry-port for the Olympics is another masterpiece by Lord Foster, I view stories about building and development in China more with foreboding than with enthusiasm.