When people think of Iasi, they think of strong and diverse higher education system, powerful research and development, and of a vast poll of cultural and architectural treasures. These make the city the recognized spiritual capital of Romania. But Iasi is more than universities and spiritual treasures. Iasi does not only belong to its inhabitants. It has the rare and hardly acquired privilege of being everyone's. It is not only the metaphysical city of tolls, hills and monuments but also the town with the highest density of poets and museums in South-Eastern Europe. Former capital of Moldavia, it is a city which has a real vocation for history.
Located in the north eastern part of Romania, the cultural center of the country, emanates a cultural vibe all over the surrounding region. It is one of the cleanest cities in Eastern Europe and it could be compared to cities such as Zurich or Vienna. It also served as capital of Moldova for about 400 years and capital of Romania in the Second World War. Holding a record for the longest tram line on abrupt hills, Iasi has the reputation of a San Francisco of Europe. It also holds about seven monasteries and churches built during the 15th and 16th century. Iasi is the host of the first university constructed in the country. It is also the place where the national opera is located. The palace of culture, king building of the city, almost identical to the in Ottawa, shows the importance of the city in the area.
In total contrast to the cultural architecture are the newly build high tech office buildings, which dominate some parts of the city. The World Trade Centre is proof of international business taking place. It is also an industrial centre, here being manufactured the cheapest drugs in Europe. All the cabs are yellow, giving a busy crowded look to the city. Brand new stylish cars and people walking dressed up in business suits around the city show that Iasi is a city of financial opportunity.
The city is populated during both the day and the night. Some of the places specializing in Romanian cuisine sometimes put on good traditional folk groups and singers. There are a number of festivals occurring each year including the beer, the food, and the cultural festivals. Around the train station and other areas, prostitution is flowering, and also, drunks and bums can be seen roaming the streets.
called the New Paris, or the modern capital of Europe. The streets , buildings and the services
In the following essay, I will be comparing the Hagia Sophia in the City of Istanbul, and the Suleymaniye Mosque of Istanbul. Both of these pieces of art are very significant to the in modern-day Turkey. The art pieces will be covered in more detail further on in this comparative essay, and finally, I will be judging the pieces at the end of this essay
First of all, it can be inferred that Jewish people of that time was not representative neither of just one class, nor than a particular “race”, but rather it was a complex reality of different ethnic groups that was forced to give itself a particular organization to preserve its own economic, social and cultural rights. And it is also true that in many cases, claiming rights, Jewish community lost them. Defining themselves as a social group, sometimes means building a border that limits a community. However, the Jewish contribution to the economy of the Venetian Republic, seen from now and even from the society of that time, is undeniable. Jewish intellectuals of 16th and 17th century looked at the Serenissima with a touch of hope, as it is clear from Francesco Sansovino writing about it as the “true Promised Land” ( “Venetia, città nobilissima et singolare ”, 1581 ), most of all after that they had been expelled from both England and Spain.
The fashion industry is a prime example of the changes to the United States urban economy. Cities can be defined by their density and scale, and New York has one of the highest population, employment, and density levels in the country. New York City is home to the nation’s largest “fashion cluster”, which is due to New York’s historical role as a center for apparel design, production, distribution and marketing. Fashion is strongly aligned with the new creative thrust of economic development and urban policy. The fashion industry is already an economic engine for New York City, due to the fact that creative people and innovations can be strong initiators of urban growth.
Architecture is the staple of the struggle of one’s people, the height of one’s success and the motivation to conquer when one is defeated. It reveals more about one’s people than what the entire populace is able to utter in words and symbols. Architecture has the most influence on one’s people than perhaps the people themselves. Architecture has power, gives hegemony, and empowers its people. It comes to no surprise that Rome is considered the more powerful cities in the world because its architecture reveals the most about its reign. Rome is most known for their architectural designs much of which had influences from Greek culture. They were enthused by their Etruscan neighbors that guided them to develop knowledge that became essential in creating the design works that they utilized for future art works (Trueman). Given their new found knowledge and influences from Greek and Phoenician cultures they were able to implement some ideas into their own stately figures that reflect their lifestyle. It was then that Roman architecture flourished throughout the Empire and Pax Romana century (Trueman). Their architectural designs resembled a wealthy lifestyle. A...
By the end of eleventh century, Western Europe had experienced a powerful cultural revival. The flourish of New towns provided a place for exchange of commerce and flow of knowledge and ideas. Universities, which replaced monasteries as centers of learning, poured urbanized knowledge into society. New technological advances and economics transformations provided the means for building magnificent architectures. These developments were representative of the mental and behavioral transformations that the medieval world underwent and the new relationships that were brought about between men, women and society in the twelfth century. As in technology, science, and scholasticism, Literature was also reborn with a new theme.3
Commercial architecture does it respond to the identity surrounding it? Or does it merely respond to the conditions of Globalization? In order to answer the question above, in the following written piece I must explore the key elements of globalization and identity. I intend to relate both factors to commercial architecture, using the Hilton Tower in Manchester as a prime example. This written piece will effectively be split into two parts (Globalization and Identity).
Located in once the bombarded Berlin, a new language of architecture emerged. It appears with multiple contradictions, yet not confliction, from itself to the surroundings and within its own construction. That is the Berlin Jewish Museum, submitted by the young Daniel Libeskind in a competition to provoke the unsavory history of Berlin very soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The Western tradition in building museum is twisted by its expressionistic form, not merely to house the remains, the relics, the display of art, it stands by itself naked, untreated to house the ghost of German Judaism, a rare opportunity to visit an empty building for its such high profile budget. The challenge is to excavate the memory that was already there but suppressed by the medium of contemporary architecture, uncanny. This essay is to analyze the capturing of a spiritual existence from a part of the bygone Berlin, and the museum’s capacity to address one of the most profoundly tragic events of the twentieth century, the Holocaust, in the use of light, material, and structural methods of construction. Moreover, this study is an attempt to evaluate the Libeskind’s response to the concept to reveal the implication in its shape, and its spatial quality. This project is also a chance to examine the interdisciplinary character of architecture in combining social-cultural relationship, psychology, history, theory, music, material methodology, vision, etc. To be able to do that, the architect’s background and his operations of process to the problem will be shortly studied, then his solution in dealing with the res...
Greater London Authority, (2008). London’s Central Business District: “Its global importance”. Greater London Authority, London .UK.
In particular, when discussing the possession of cultural heritage, Appiah believes that from the point of view of cosmopolitanism, cultural and artistic objects do not belong to a particular nation or country, because artists absorbed the essence of diversified civilization and culture in the process of its creation. Therefore they should belong to all mankind. For exam...
One World Trade Center (WTC) is the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere measuring up at 1776 feet tall. The built output sets new standards of design, construction, and prestige. Its beauty in New York City’s magical skyline makes it an icon. It is the most recognised and desirable office address in the world. In this essay I plan to argue that the social, political and economic status of society has affected the built output of this building considerably, for the good. Making the building one of the best skyscrapers in the world.
Krakow is another very important city to Poland. Krakow has approximately seven hundred-fifty thousand people residing there. They also house many international and polish businesses in Krakow. It’s now a World Heritage Site that collects seven million visitors annually. In 1596 Zygmund III Wasa, ruler of Poland relocated the capital city from Krakow to Warsaw. Jagiellonian proudly resides in this historic place and holds the record for being the oldest university...
London, Tokyo, and New York have been changing the way their economy has been functioning in a worldwide market. Global cities are known to produce a lot of different types of merchandise that can help a country to become wealthy. Their society have also benefited from the change in the economy because their able to produce more in an advanced technological era in addition to becoming involved in a proficient
Global cities are key command areas in the organization of the world economy, acting as a focus for trade flows and world finance and containing the principal marketplaces for the leading industries. These cities hold major corporate headquarters of TNCs, international banks and international division of labour (Macionis & Plummer 2012). Almost all of the world’s finance is controlled by twenty-five of these cities, with New York, London and Tokyo emerging as the three most powerful centres of world finance. But although these cities are the residences of large corporations and international systems of finance, they also have an increasing number of poor people. In Global cities, there is a sharp c...