Short article by Paul Virilio:"...I will underline that terrorism has just
inaugurated an anti-cities strategy. This means
that all towers are today threatened. Instead of
being a place of dominion, as the dungeons of the
past, the tower has become a place of weakness:
vertically, it is henceforth the equivalent of the
outer wall which the artillery blew up...."
In the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion, Tokyo 3 has skyscrapers that sink into the ground whenever the city is threatened from the air (about every other episode). Not only do they sink, they continue downward in rectangular silos and emerge upside down on the roof of a "geofront," which is an enormous cavern with another city on its floor. Below is a view inside the geofront, after the buildings have been lowered. I wouldn't mind living there right now.
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- jim 10-18-2001 11:55 pm
In the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion, Tokyo 3 has skyscrapers that sink into the ground whenever the city is threatened from the air (about every other episode). Not only do they sink, they continue downward in rectangular silos and emerge upside down on the roof of a "geofront," which is an enormous cavern with another city on its floor. Below is a view inside the geofront, after the buildings have been lowered. I wouldn't mind living there right now.
- tom moody 10-19-2001 12:45 am