Futuristic City

School's summer holiday in Japan is shorter than other western country, and is usually about a month long. Children are always occupied with homework. My sister's family went to Tokyo during the holiday and visited Tokyo Skytree, which is a broadcasting, restaurant, and observation tower. Its height is 634.0 meters (2,080ft) and it became the tallest structure in my country and opened to the public on 2012. So it's a still hot destination.

Yesterday, I saw an unusual building design on Metro newspaper. It said that the population density of London is getting higher, and one possible solution could be to build up, up and up. This proposal plans to build a 1,000ft tower, which could house an entire city.

 

A prominent British town planner; Sir Ebenezer Howard (1850-1928) described a utopian city in which people live harmoniously together with nature, and developed several model town on suburbs. Could that building be a utopia in the future??

When I visited London in 1992 at the first time, streets in London were busy with a lot of old type double-deckers and black taxies. Now taxies have changed into colourful advertising designs. There was no the Gherkin, London Eye nor the Shard. Buildings were not so high, but the skylines were almost straight and it was stunning. It's trend of the times and tide of history. It's a new age and new technology. But I also take pity on changing. Well... it's rather difficult to say.

If you go to east England, there is still a beautiful Dedham Vale, which a landscape painter John Constable loved. On the other hand, I feel London has changed into a futuristic city at a furious pace, leave countryside back.