Maritime Metropolis Barcelona's Torres, Towers, Türme; Honolulu’s Potential to Learn from Barcelona’s Gone Vertical (Humane Architecture). The host for this show was Martin Despang. The guests were DeSoto Brown and Martin Anzellini GarcíaReyes.

The discussion was: Honolulu and Barcelona are both martime metropolises with many more similarities particulary exploding cost of living under not unsimilar climatically privileged circumstances. While Honolulu had not built tall before Aloha tower as its first highrise far into the beginning of the 20th century Barcelona has a thousandyear tradition building tall. The show shares the related observations by Martin Anzellini in Barcelona in 2008 and Martin Despang in 2021. Given the increasingly generic fossil formalist design of highrises in Honolulu this show’s mission is to look above and beyond its too often limited horizon and Barcelona is an related exquisite example to take us to.

The takeaway was: While Barcelona has way fewer highrises particularly the ones from recent times are climatically and culturally way more sophisticated so that Honolulu can literally and figuratively learn much from them.

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