2024-10-04
27 分钟We report from the CTBUH International Conference at London’s Barbican Centre where keynote speakers and city-building experts discuss how to do density better. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Hello and welcome to the Urbanist Monocles program all about the built environment.
I'm your host, Andrew Tuck.
Coming up, the act of building tall has become more sophisticated and part of that new constituency or stakeholders are the urban component.
We stopped by this year's edition of the Council on Tall Buildings, an urban Habitats international conference which returns to London after 11 years and stops by Paris while it's in this part of the world too, with the question of constructing new versus renewing old buildings, as well as the standing theme of how to do density right, both high on the agenda, we we spoke with keynote speakers and experts across the industry on what they see as the brightest way forward for our cities.
That's coming up over the next 30 minutes here on the Urbanist.
And now I'll hand over to Monacool's David Stephens, who sent us the full report.
Building industry loves tall building.
So the question is not to convince them to do more.
The question is how can we manage those tall buildings?
Are they really positive for city life or not?
Can we refurbish them?
So what's happening now is perhaps to change a little bit, not considering only tall building and the expression of a successful city, but also incapacity to offer urban renewal to being retrofit and to offer high density where you have less ground.
Because I think one of our targets now is to protect the ground and also to give more efficiency to all public services.
And we need density to give efficiency to public services.
And tall building can be a help.
It's a part of the solution, it's not the unique one.
How do we tackle the challenge of density?
That's Dominique Alber, architect and CEO of Atelier Jean Neuvel and one of the speakers at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, or CTBUH International Conference this year taking place in both London and Paris.
I head along to the London leg at the Barbican Centre where industry leaders and enthusiasts have gathered to talk about the challenges and opportunities that density and building tall present to our cities.
This edition of the conference is subtitled New or renew.