Before long the day will come and the modern buildings will take over the cultural and aesthetical function of what we deem architectural heritage of today. This is because the scope of creativity when it comes to revamping old buildings in the city centres is limited and even if such buildings are reconstructed they are turned into shops or banks. Thus wherever you go you see the same shop windows, the same brands and every city centre resembles the other. This happens because it is the commercial function that prevails. Creativyty moves to the outskirts – there young and talented architects can run riot with their imagination and create outsanding structures.
Given an appropriate budget and a free hand they can achieve the unrequited goals of Le Corbusier and the Belgian Style of 1958. With the experience from the past we know that huge blocks of flats designed to accommodate houndreds or even thousands of people do not encourage people to socialise but rather deprive them of the sense of belonging and identity. The idea to use innovative and prefabricated materials in order to buidl cheap flats for the masses was very good indeed only that the materials were apparently too cheap and now, nearly after 50 years from the construction of the 58 style buildings most of them can be only demolished in order not to jeopardise the safety of those who live in them.
However, there is one place in which the seemingly utopist goal to create interesting buildings which would give people a sense of identity and satisfy their housing and easthetical needs has been achieved. MV buildings (
http://www.jdsarchitects.com/) erected in Orestad, a Southern district of Copenhagen.
