Monday 31 August 2009

The different between The East and West are two letters


Aspire sculpture - Nottingham - United Kingdom




In the Mid of 2008, the university of Nottingham Inaugurated new sculpture at the Jubilee campusthey.
They call it Aspire. This sculpture is the highest sculpture in U.K., approximatelly 60 meters above the ground, the thing which made this sculpture special is the engineers made it from metel coulmns. Then, they paint it with red colour.
In my opinion, The architect took the design from a popcorn cone or A bouquet of flowers.


Picture(2)



as you see the picture number 2 the Aspire tower is higher than the Statue of Liberty in New-York



some fact of Aspire(*):
1,250 ...metres of steel tube used
400 ...metres of weld
620 ...square metres of paint
52 ...height of steel mast in metres
8 ...height of concrete column in metres
13 ...number of stacked double decker buses which could fit alongside Aspire
854 ...weight of Aspire in tonnes
122 ...number of bull elephants equal in weight to Aspire
4.82 ...diameter in metres at widest point
2.19 ...diameter in metres at narrowest point


(*) this info was taken from www.aspire.nottingham.ac.uk


Picture(3)

I am really apologize that is the picture number 3 is not related to Nottingham Aspire
But, it is Qatar Aspire tower !!
In addition, I am so disappointed when I saw some arabian countries bought some ready plans and designs from other west countries.
without careing of any mistakes or thinking that will be effect on our culture or local environments
The question is: what is the reason of doing this method ??
Are we have poor quality of ARCHITECT ??
Or do the arab thing that " the foreign experience is stronger than our "

Finally:
I HOPE THIS VIEW WILL CHANGE A.S.A.P.

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