首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Clouds may have silver linings, but even the sunniest of us seldom glimpse them on foot. The marvelous Blur Building that hovers
Clouds may have silver linings, but even the sunniest of us seldom glimpse them on foot. The marvelous Blur Building that hovers
admin
2014-06-13
33
问题
Clouds may have silver linings, but even the sunniest of us seldom glimpse them on foot. The marvelous Blur Building that hovers above the lake of Yverdon les Bains in Switzerland provides such an opportunity. It gives anyone who has ever wanted to step into the clouds they watch from the airplane window a chance to realize their dream. Visitors wear waterproof ponchos before setting off along a walkway above the lake that takes them into the foggy atmosphere of the cloud. The experience of physical forms blurring before your eyes as you enter the cloud is both disorientating and liberating. However firmly your feet are planted on the floor, it is hard to escape the sensation of floating. On the upper deck of this spaceship-shaped structure, the Angel Bar, a translucent counter lit in tones of aqueous blue, beckons with a dozen different kinds of mineral water.
To enter this sublime building situated in the landscape of the Swiss Alps feels like walking into a poem—it is part of nature but removed from reality, Its architects, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio of New York, designed it as a pavilion for the Swiss Expo 2002 in the Three Lakes region of Switzerland, an hour’s train ride from Geneva, which features a series of exhibits on the lakes. The Blur Building is easily the most successful. Indeed, you can skip the rest of the Expo—a Swiss kitsch version of Britain’s Millennium Dome—and head straight for the cloud, which is there until the end of October.
The architects asked themselves what was the ideal material for building on a lake and decided on water itself.’ the element of the lake, the snow. the rivers and the mist above it. They wanted to play on and lay bare the notion of a world’s fair pavilion by creating an ethereal ghost of one in which there is nothing to see. The result is a refuge from the surveillance cameras and high-definition images of our everyday world—a particular tease in Switzerland, where clarity and precision are so prized. (Anti- architecture or not, the Blur Building cost a cool $7.5 million.)
Out-of-the-box thinking is a trademark of Diller Scofidio. a husband-and-wife team of architecture professors who became the first architects to win a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation in 1999. Although they have built very little, they are interested in the social experience of architecture, in challenging people’s ideas about buildings. They treat architecture as an analytical art form that combines other disciplines, such as visual art and photography, dance and theatre.
To realize its Utopian poetry, the Blur Building has to be technologically state-of-the-art. Water from the lake is pumped through 32,000 fog nozzles positioned throughout the skeleton-like stainless steel structure; so the building does not just look like a cloud on the outside, it feels like a cloud on the inside. And while the 300-foot-wide platform can accommodate up to 400 people, visitors vanish from each other in the mist at about five paces, so you really can wander lonely as a cloud. Wordsworth must be smiling.
选项
A、dazing
B、free
C、spine-chilling
D、dazzling
答案
C
解析
事实细节题。文章第一段描述"The experience of physical forms blurring before your eyes as you enter the cloud is both disorientating and liberating."(当你进入云层时,实体的东西都在你眼前模糊了,这种感觉既让人目眩又让人觉得解脱)。题干问的是从这个建筑物的露台上看景物的感受。选项"令人目眩的";"自由的";"令人毛骨悚然的";"令人眼花缭乱的";只有答案选项未在文中提到。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/kMO4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Inthefollowingtext,somesentenceshavebeenremoved.ForQuestions(41-45),choosethemostsuitableonefromthelistA-Gt
Forhealthinsurance,theUnitedStateshastakentheroadlesstraveled.TheUnitedStatesistheonlyrichcountrywithoutuni
It’ssevenweeksintothenewyear.Doyouknowwhereyourresolutionis?Ifyou’relikemillionsofAmericans,youprobablyvow
Educationisoneofthekeywordsofourtime.Aman,withoutaneducation,manyofusbelieve,isanunfortunatevictimofunfo
WhichofthefollowingheadingsisthatofParagraphTwo?Whichofthefollowingstatementsisincorrect?
In1957adoctorinSingaporenoticedthathospitalsweretreatinganunusualnumberofinfluenza-likecases.Influenzaissomet
Denial,anger,bargaining,depression,acceptance.Someltedintopopculturearethefivestagesofgrief—introducedinthe1
Americanstodaybelievethatacceptablesocialbehaviorfollowseffortlesslyfrompersonalvirtue.The(1)_____betweenmoralsa
AsforhowmuchofIQcomesfromthegenesandhowmuchcomefromexperiences,______.Thephrase"withawholeboxofsalt"in
Aspartofastudentsocialsurveyproject,youareleadingagrouptovisitanexhibitioninasmalltown.Writealetter:1)as
随机试题
关于Hep一2细胞的特点不正确的是
A.加大降价力度B.适当提高价格C.少降价格D.维持价格E.少降或维持价格市场竞争较为充分且价格相对低廉的品种
收益现值法的基本原理,是在确定()的基础上,通过本金化处理得到收益现值,并以此为依据确定资产的评估价格。
扣缴义务人未按照规定设置、保管代扣代缴、代收代缴税款账簿或者保管代扣代缴、代收代缴税款记账凭证及有关资料的,由税务机关责令限期改正,可以处2000元以下的罚款;情节严重的,处2000元以上5000元以下的罚款。()
甲公司为上市公司,2008年至2010年的有关资料如下:(1)2008年1月1日发行在外普通股股数为32800万股。(2)2008年5月31日,经股东大会同意并经相关监管部门批准,甲公司以2008年5月20日为股权登记日,向全体股东每1
一、注意事项1.申论考试,与传统作文考试不同,是对分析驾驭材料的能力与对表达能力并重的考试。2.作答参考时限:阅读资料40分钟,作答110分钟。3.仔细阅读给定的资料,按照后面提出的“申论要求”依次作答。二、给定资料材料一
下列有关文学常识的表述,不恰当的一项是:
2,3,3,4,5,()。
Oracle系统不但具有高性能的RDBMS,而且提供全过程的应用开发工具。如果要进行数据库建模,使用的是()。
Childrenwhogriptheirpenstooclosetothewritingpointarelikelytobeatadisadvantageinexaminations,【C1】______tothe
最新回复
(
0
)