Landmarks

The questioning of the addictive reliance of new urban developments on the staging and proliferation of landmarks necessitates its rethinking beyond the iconic.

We realised that to re-envision a dominant type in an urban plan inevitably raises questions of control, flexibility, difference and participation - and most acutely the need to address the issue of programmatic afterlives, its ability to renew or reconfigure itself in time to elude eventual expiry. This subsequently posed the fundamental question of where architecture stops and urbanism begins. Does the relinquishment of total control on an urban plan equate to the abdication of responsibility for urbanity? And if so, what are the tools that are available to sustain typological control and freedom?

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