Cajasol Tower seen by some citizens of Seville. Reflections on the 34 th Meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Tower PRESS
Sevilla, August 4, 2010
1. doubt very much the statement that UNESCO has given its approval to Cajasol Tower project, as so hasty and biased, it has been claimed in recent days by the City of Seville and Cajasol Presidency. Read More
The exact wording of the resolution of the World Heritage Committee did not yet know Brasilia, took longer officially issued after approval of its minutes. The fact that UNESCO has decided on this occasion include Sevilla in the List of World Heritage in Danger (4 agreed to include property reported in Georgia, Uganda, Madagascar and the U.S.) and order a new report to assess your condition on the landscape of Seville, not at all mean that his review of the project is positive. Remember that this is a project with negative reports from ICOMOS, the main body technical advisor to UNESCO and that, in addition, the report itself was commissioned by the Ministry of Culture recognized a negative condition on the Historic Seville and its landscape, adding that today would not be approvable. And this is what you value in your next UNESCO 35th session of Bahrain, from 19 to 29 June 2011.
Our conclusion from the information we know now is that UNESCO has postponed its decision to pick it up within a year. We know that the 21 members that form the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO are nominated by their governments and therefore are subject to political pressure from other governments, in this case English. That's all I can explain that the Committee look for another place, not only in the case of the skyscrapers that literally casts a shadow on the Historic Seville and the battered metropolitan territory but also in other cases bleeding as port Ibiza Tunnel Ave or almost touching the foundations of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bcertainly in many other cases of threatened heritage around the world objectively, to recognize it or not this Committee, are threatened by a false speculative development . But do not get ahead of ourselves, we hope to know the official record.
In contrast, our Delegate Mpal. Culture, using the strategy of "lies that something is" the Goebbels-style, filter some "alleged" conclusions that she has invented. Some media outlets used this information to declare crooked owners' UNESCO adopts Cajasol Tower, "although the last section to be raised to get an accounting to determine the impact of the tower in Seville's historic landscape and will have to justify their unjustifiable heights. When UNESCO brings to the press his decision, whatever it is, and will be at the head of all the gullible that "UNESCO has approved the tower."
2. We greatly surprised that the city of Seville, while that it approves the Cajasol Tower, with the support of the Ministry and the Ministry of Culture, UNESCO dares to propose an extension of the current statement to include the World Heritage historical sites linked to the Puerto de Indias, with Tower The gold and shipyards, among other key pieces. We all know that, if built Cajasol Tower, would come to dominate the landscape of the Guadalquivir River historical film. It is clear that the City is aware of this serious condition, therefore, we find no logical explanation for this huge contradiction. Please be honest, Sevilla now has to decide: either supported or proposed skyscraper the implementation of the declared area, the two are incompatible.
3. It is painful to hear, again, the frail and worn-out arguments to justify job creation Tower. Now is 4,000, we do not know if we talk about working hours, jobs monthly, yearly or for every year that lasted construction. In any case, in the middle of the huge crisis that we suffer as a consequence of the explosion of the great English housing bubble, when we say the new model of sustainable development proposed should be based on renewable energy, rehabilitation and new technologies information, disappointed that our political leaders have proposed ending the crisis with bricks, or rather, in this case, steel and glass base which, incidentally, are not manufactured and in Seville. Most of the materials used are manufactured Tower far from here and skilled labor, nor shall draw on our lists of Paro, this is obvious.
all know that with 350 million euros there are many ways to generate more jobs and sustainable economic activities that build a skyscraper outdated and uneconomic. We also know everyone, even politicians who still defend the Tower, the skyscraper that fits very poorly in the economic and social role expected of a savings in the new situation that draws the Banks Act and the prospect of merging the two large boxes of Andalusia.
4. In recent weeks, unfortunately, we have heard some ministers, counselors and delegates you strive to justify municipal Cajasol as the landmark tower that will come to Seville in the "modernity" while facing progress against tradition, and therefore consider it normal to wake up the suspicions of conservatives and conservationists rancid, "like what happened to Aníbal González", which, incidentally, so far no one had considered a leading architect.
also justified by "modernity" the demolition of the palace to build the Corte Inglés and Galerías Preciados. It tried to knock the sake of "modernity" Triana Bridge, the Market and blinded Barranco del Puerto de Indias to devote to parking of vehicles, projects that fortunately did not succeed. Was justified to make Seville a "modern" city from the more speculative real estate project, such as the Torre de los Remedios, until the demolition of more than thirty percent of its historical real estate, including national monuments declared as the Professed House of Jesuit Laraña street and part of the shipyards to build a horrific tax office. "Modernity" justifies everything, and its perverse manipulation refers to the most rancid Franco "democracy" more cumbersome and scurfy linking local politicians, savings banks and media, in the purest style of the Sicilian Mafia.
The Empire State of New York was made 80 years ago, just as planned Aníbal González eclectic brick buildings, and their height was 445 meters and then 2.5 times the height of our "modern" and "cutting edge" Cajasol turret, was once considered a symbol of progress and power of the American capitalist model. Today just travel a bit to see what the capitals of Third World capitalism reigns wilder, the major social inequalities and a total lack of democracy, are filled with skyscrapers like Cajasol and other much higher and thicker than this, no one can fairly decent and intelligent associate and to modernity, or the progress of their societies. Today
most recognized architecture moves into other keys. Even the great architects design buildings system officials who strive to express the new values \u200b\u200bof sustainability and human scale that attempts to justify the system. The building of Palmas Altas of Richard Roger, the new headquarters of the multinational Abengoa Seville, is a nearby example of architecture that could qualify as art and recognized with numerous international awards, which contrasts sharply with the outdated model of the skyscraper Cajasol. Can come to know in order to reflect later on that there are many reasonable alternatives to the proposed tower.
5. We've said it before and we repeat, Sevilla does not need a skyscraper, you need is honest politicians, business managers and more democracy.
need politicians to act in front, do not go almost surreptitiously at international meetings to corridors and traps, and even possible favors. We need politicians who work for equality and justice and to stop doing politics to favor classes dominant and the brick.
There are many reasons, not just economic, but also urban, environmental and mobility, economic and financial security of the building and air traffic, legality and ethics to justify that there is no Cajasol Tower, we have demonstrated amply front our government, to the media on the street to the public and the courts, so we will not repeat here. Brasilia
After we are even more confident this Cajasol Torre should not be built and that, in fact, not be built. Eventually, sooner rather than later, will prove us right.
SIGN:
- Platform Tumbala citizen against Torre Cajasol:
Architecture and Social Commitment, Ecologists in Action, the Association for the Defence of Historical and Artistic Heritage of Andalusia (ADEPA) and the Association of professors for the Diffusion and Historical Heritage "Ben Baso, Demetrio de los Ríos Association for the Protection of Heritage, Foro Social de Sevilla, University and Social Commitment, Historical Association Retiro Obrero, Andalusian Association of Anthropology, Civic Platform and Parks and Gardens in Seville, Confederation of Independent Seville, Friends of the Gardens Oliva, Casa de la Paz, Pumarejo House Association, Platform Pumarejo the House, the Committee for Educational Park Miraflores, Baetica Nostra, Association for the Defence of the Realm of Aljarafe (ADTA)
- Manifesto against the construction of the Tower Cajasol.
