GİRİŞTE ZİYARETÇİLERİ KARŞILAYAN FARKLI KOTTAKİ KATLAR,
ZENGİN İÇ GÖRÜNÜMLER YARATIYOR.
THE FLOORS PLACED ON DIFFERENT LEVELS CREATES DIVERSE
VIEWS AT THE GROUND FLOOR.
shows the threads of cotton and has a character of both
shadow and transparency.’’
Design principle 1: The podium and the tower
The architects’ podium and tower concept is based on Le
Corbusier’s Radiant City. Originally, Le Corbusier thought
of the podium as an elevated pedestrian public space
and worldwide, urban planners and policy makers
followed this vision in renovating whole new city parts
(Algiers, Marseille, Brussels), or even starting new cities
(Brasilia, Ankara). Yet, nowhere has the podium fulfilled
its original function as a space for pedestrians. Rather,
the modernist podium has installed a hierarchical
distance between tower and street, creating a feeling of
inaccessibility for street dwellers.
In the context of Addis Ababa, the architects had to
rethink this podium critically to serve the specific social
spaces of Ethiopian st