Photography
The City of cities, a global scale “common good”
Project description
If there is a city playing the ,,common good” role on a global scale, it is INSTABUL. The ancient Constantinople was a GATE and a BRIDGE along history between cultures and civilizations. These days the city is a BRIDGE between Europe and Asia, it is the only city in the world to connect two continents and it is a GATE in the same time towards and from a sea, THE BLACK SEA, an important fact now again in troubled times of war when this place is STRATEGIC at A GLOBAL SCALE . This is the place where we hope that the peace treaty will be signed, over here are expected the grain barges for the whole world. The first bridge connecting the European shore with the Asian one, called the BOSFOR BRIDGE ( today “The “15 July Martyrs Bridge“ ), inaugurated in 1973 and followed by other two, is already loaded with a recent history. The images are taken in motion from over the water, the bridge is surprising in appearance crossing the Bosphorus by sea, and its symbolic mantle is accentuated with the help of the camera movement.
Author's presentation text
Vlad Gaivoronschi is a professor Ph.d. at the Architecture Timișoara Faculty, teaching architectural theory and studio. Partner at Andreescu & Gaivoronschi, with realized projects, national and international prizes and nominations, second prize at Central Glass Competition, Tokyo 1981, The ECCS European Prize for Steel Construction in 1997, nominations at the European Architecture Prize „Mies van der Rohe” 2008 and 2010, shortlisted at W.A.F. Barcelona 2010 and Berlin 2016, Winner at the German Design Award, Frankfurt 2018, 2020 and nominated in 2022, Winner at Big SEE Ljubljana 2019 and 2021, BETA prizes in 2016 and 2018. Over ten national prizes, eight edited books. President of Romanian Order of Architects O.A.R., Timis County 2010-18. Member in the Professional Practice Comission of the International Union of Architects, coauthor of the aspirational guide „The Value of Architecture enhancing The Quality of Life”, adopted at the U.I.A. Congress in Seul 2017.