Comments on: Zira Island masterplan by BIG

By: Gifts

Gifts — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:49:25 +0000

This sir, is the best thing I've seen all day. Better than all the James Bond films put together.

By: Mondifik

Mondifik — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:09:30 +0000

Last summer i was in Baku and damn i cant realise its like Dubai everyone is Rich))everyone seems happy.its great city and have a big potential to grow and be one of the most beautifull artifical built cities in the world(e.g Dubai).I hope that cause people there are very peacefull and honest

By: SMALL

SMALL — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:58:01 +0000

Dear Helen-LG, I too have problems with the landscape derived building forms, and as an aspiring landscape architect, they hurt me deeply. They are conceptual one-liners and brutally gimmicky. BIG prefaces their form by noting that “As a young post-soviet democracy, Azerbaijan is rediscovering its national identity by imagining Zira Island as an architectural landscape based upon the country’s dramatic natural setting.” Deep in their hearts, does BIG truly think that this overly manufactured landscape is going to provide an emerging democracy with a positive, empowered national identity? Yes, Dubai is now known worldwide, but to what end? When I fly into Las Vegas, does my heart swell with pride for my country, and do tears of joy run down my face as I peer down upon my nation’s greatest spectacle? And lastly, how is this sustainable Disneyland going to age? The architecture is too fast, too cool, and too concerned with what it can accomplish at this exact moment in time.

By: SMALL

SMALL — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:40:54 +0000

Dear ALLSGOOD, you have called to attention one of my many problems with this project. However visionary, sleek and slimy the renderings may be, I sense that there is an exorbitant amount of fluff in this proposal. Massive liberties are taken with the use of the word sustainability. Will BIG be taking into account all the carbon released into the atmosphere by the construction of this new Epcot Center, and planting enough trees elsewhere (there is simply not enough space on the island) to negate this quantity? What are there plans for all the construction debris? Will it be left on site to erode over the next several thousand years, or will instead they be using mycological remediation techniques to speed things up? Also, mentioned discreetly in the proposal is that there is going to be a golf course in the middle of the island? When I hear the word sustainability, golf courses aren’t usually what comes to mind, but then again, neither are master plans that look as audacious and buildings as squeamishly synthetic (but they’re, like, mountains) as these.

By: Capt.Aslan

Capt.Aslan — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:40:54 +0000

I think this island will be a great casino center in this region.Oil and gas gettin us richy thanks oil,gas