QuiveringHeights原文及翻譯

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2、 i ghtsHow ta I I i s too tall? The debate among arch itects heats up.多高是太高?建筑師之間的爭論升溫了.From New York to Shangha i F cities have raced for decades to erec t theworId "s ta IIestskyscrapersStrueturesI i ke Chicago5s 443-meter-tallSears TowerorKuaI a Lumpur's 452一meterh i gh Petronas twins ha

3、veserved aspowerfuI totems,shoutingout economicarr i val "Theskyscraper ,Hsays RobertStern ,dean of theYa Ie Schoo I ofArch i tecture, "is the symboI of success ” But when two passenger pI anes（客機） smashed into the Wor Id Trade Center on Sep11, that equationwas forever altered o Skyscraper

4、s were suddenly transformed into fragile deathtraps。uRight now it's hard to justify building such hugemonuments, n says noted （著 名的） New York- based arch i tect Shoj i SadaOo"They are just too tempting a target”從紐約到上海，城市己經(jīng)運行幾十年來建造世界上最高的摩天大樓。像芝加哥443 米高的西爾斯大廈或吉隆坡452米高的雙子塔的結(jié)構(gòu)作為強大的圖騰,喊著經(jīng)濟的到 來?！?/p>

5、摩天大樓”，羅伯特斯特恩說，耶魯大學(xué)建筑學(xué)院院長，”是成功的象征?！暗攦蓚€客機在9月11日撞上世貿(mào)中心，這個方程被永遠改變了。摩天大樓突然 變成了脆弱的危房?！艾F(xiàn)在很難證明建立這樣巨大的紀念碑是正當?shù)模爸募~約 基礎(chǔ)架構(gòu)師Shoji Sadao說“他們只是太誘人的目標?！盙 i a nt skyscrapers may turn out to be among the f i rs t casua I ties of the f i rst war of the 21st century Ever sinee the 50-story Woolworth Bui Iding was er

6、ec ted i n lower Manhattan in 1913, a deba te has raged （流行，風(fēng)行）among arch i tects over the safety and practicaIity of the supertall build ing. Now t hose who have long agitated aga i nst t hem have sudden I y found an attentive audience. "The days of competing over who has the ta I Iest buildin

7、g are over , 55 Japanese arch i tect Toyo Ito dec Iared I ast weeko "The WorId Trade Center attack has taught us something that I" ve always be I i eved： human be i ngs shouId Ii ve cIoser to the earth.”巨大的摩天大廈結(jié)果成為二十一世紀第一場戰(zhàn)爭的第一個傷亡。自從50層的伍爾沃 思大廈于1913年建于下曼哈頓，超高層建筑的安全性和實用性成為一個辯論在建筑 師之間流行起來?，F(xiàn)在

8、那些一直強烈反對超高層建筑的突然發(fā)現(xiàn)一個細心的觀眾。（完整）Ouiver ing Heights原文及翻譯“競爭誰擁有最高建筑的時代己經(jīng)結(jié)束，“日本建筑師伊東豐雄上周聲明?！笆澜?貿(mào)易中心的被襲己經(jīng)告訴我們，那是我一直相信的：人類應(yīng)該住得更靠近地球。”Skyscrapers have a I ways been more about ego t han economics。 A bu i Id i ng more than 80 stories high requi res steeI reinforcements as bracing against the wind and extra e

9、Ievator banks （電梯 組）. which limit the amoun t of office space-a nd cut into pro fits （肖 ij 減利潤）。 Only now have cr itics5 worst suspicions been confirmed ： the sheer height of thesestruetures makesthem potent i a 丨Iy devastat i ng hazards.The Wor I d TradeCenter withstoodthe initial blow of two terro

10、r i st一dr i ven Boeing 767s.But the jet-fuelf i re me I ted its steeI gi rders into putty,dropp i ngacre-s ize fIoorsonto each ot her I i ke a let ha I stack of metal pancakes.Fi refighters couIdn5 t reach upper floorsin time to be effec tive."It "s morally wrong to build those kinds of su

11、pertallbui Idings now,says Br i tish arch i tect Mark Dytham."Nobody knows howto cope with（應(yīng)付）that kind of f i re at that kind of height。n摩天大樓一直比經(jīng)濟更自我。一個超過80層樓高的建筑要求鋼筋作為風(fēng)和額外電梯 組的支撐，這限制了辦公空間和削減利潤。眼下批評者最壞的懷疑得到證實：這些建 筑物的純粹高度，使他們潛在毀滅性的災(zāi)害世界貿(mào)易中心經(jīng)受了兩架恐怖分子駕駛 的波音767的最初打擊.但噴氣燃料的火把建筑物的鋼梁熔化成油灰，滴落在彼此英 畝大小的樓

12、層上就像致命的金屬煎餅堆。消防員無法在有效的時間內(nèi)及時到達上層樓面?！艾F(xiàn)在建立這類超高層建筑在道德上是錯誤的，”英國建筑師馬克Dytham 說“沒有人知道如何在那樣高度應(yīng)對那種火."Yet there 's pIenty to be saidfor the super tallbu i Id i ngs。For hugecompan i es,they allow thousandsto work together.Views from the windowsfeed executive egos。In crowdedcities Ii ke Hong Kong, h i g

13、hr i ses I eaveroom for muchn eeded park I a nd. SomeTrade Centers1 col lapse was actuallyarchitects contend that the WorId a testament （確實的證明）to itsengineer ing ingenuity :it did not toppies i deways ,and thousandsmanaged to evacuate before it felI. Most of those killed were on the top floors, abov

14、e the crash sites o "If the skyscraper i s over , ” argues Yale's Stern, "what next? The a i rpI ane? The WorId Trade Center came down in an order Iy way under conditions no one couId possibIy have anticipated in the 1970s然而有很多人為超高建筑講話對大公司來說，他們允許數(shù)千人一起工作.從windows（完整）Quiver ing Heights原文

15、及翻譯提供執(zhí)行自我觀點。像香港這樣擁擠的城市，高樓大廈留出空間給急需的公用場地。 一些建筑師認為,世界貿(mào)易中心的倒塌實際上是證明其工程智慧：它沒有向一側(cè)傾覆, 數(shù)千人設(shè)法在其坍塌之前疏散.大部分死者是頂部樓層，撞擊地點的上方?！叭绻?天大樓結(jié)束了，”耶魯大學(xué)的斯特恩認為，“下一個是什么？飛機嗎？世界貿(mào)易中心在 1970年代可能沒有人預(yù)料得到的情況下以有序的方式倒塌。For the foreseeable future, skyscrapers are I i keIy to prov ide hous i ng for a Iarge percentage of office workers

16、 in Manhattan。 Though some companies have re Iocated to smaI I er buildings in New Jersey, many are tak i ng whatever space they can get。 The WorId Trade Center attack destroyed more than 1 million square meters of off i ce space一rough Iy equ i vaIent to the ervt ire centraI bus i ness d i striet of

17、 M i ami Bruce Mosley, pres ident of Uo S operations for the realestate （不動產(chǎn)，房地產(chǎn)） behemoth Cushman & Wakef i e I d （高緯環(huán)球），says h i s company has a I ready leased more than 400f 000 square meters of space in Manhattan sinee the di saster uch of it in skyscrapers o “Has there been an immediate imp

18、act on peopIe1 s desi res to be on the upper f Ioors ? ” he says o "With a few tenarrts there has。 But in our opinion thi s i s short-term reaction to the attackoii在可預(yù)見的未來，摩天大樓可能給很大一部分在曼哈頓辦公室的職員提供住房.在新 澤西州盡管一些公司己經(jīng)搬遷到較小的建筑物，許多人正在獲取他們能得到的任何空 間。世界貿(mào)易中心的襲擊摧毀了超過100萬平方米的辦公空間，大概相當于邁阿密的 整個商業(yè)中心區(qū)。房地產(chǎn)巨頭高緯物

19、業(yè)的美國業(yè)務(wù)總裁布魯斯莫斯利說，他的公 司在襲擊以來己經(jīng)在曼哈頓租賃400000多平方米的空間-很多都是來自摩天大 樓.“有一個直接影響人們的欲望是在樓上嗎？ ”他說?！皫讉€租戶有。但是在我們 看來這是對襲擊的短期反應(yīng).*May be so, but for now designers of a slew of new skyscrapers are under sudden pressure to defend thei r projects. When it is finished in 2005, the Shanghai Wor Id Financi a I Center i s to

20、 be the wor Id cs ta I Iest bui Iding： 460 meterso In Hong Kong, another supertower is in the works, and others ex i st or are i n the pIann i ng phases i n Katangi,Indi a, Pusan,South Korea; Dubai 、 United Arab Emi rates. and Mexico City. New York architect t who designed the Hong Kong project. has been asked by its backers （支持者，贊助者）whether the new structure cou Id stand up to the pound i ng that the Twin Towers to ok。 Kohn be I i eved that the building' s（完整）Quiver ing Heights原文及翻譯super thick beams wou I d wi