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盛宴过后的“茶座”
Dessert in the wake of A Grand Banquet
——SOM公司前主席Taylor女士规划研讨会侧记
Sidelights of Mrs. Taylor, the former SOM President, at the Planning Seminar
不要过多地解释，SOM三个英文字母在中国的建筑规划界，会很轻松地被联想成是条“设计大鳄”。进入中国20多年的历史，上海的金贸大厦、黄浦江两岸的总体规划、北京的国贸中心、香港会展中心等，在中国的许多大中型城市中，SOM公司取得了巨大的竞争优势。
One more word would be deemed redundant. SOM, the three capital letters, are more often than not reminiscent of an image --- “the Design Heavyweight ”in architectural planning arena in China. Two decades ago, SOM Company carved a niche in China. The years since then witnessed its mounting competitive edge in myriad cities in this dreamland, middle and large, which is disarmingly incarnated in the following brainchildren: the Shanghai Jinmao Tower, the across-the-board planning of Huangpu River’s banks, Beijing International Trade Center, and Convention Plaza Office Tower in Hong Kong, to mention only a few.
5月24日，SOM公司前任主席、公司合伙人Marilyn Jordan Taylor 女士在上海同济大学就“纽约和上海的城市建筑与规划”举行了一场研讨会。会后又与同济大学建筑设计研究院等单位举行了一场“圆桌会”，对“日益增长的人口和城市规模、发展中城市的交通、城市的可持续发展”等问题进行了有益的探讨。
On 24th of May, Mrs. Marilyn Jordan Taylor, the former president and corporate partner of SOM Company, sponsored a seminar entitled “Urban Construction and Planning in New York and Shanghai” at Tongji University in Shanghai, followed by a round table meeting with the Architectural Design and Research Institute of that University and a few other institutions, further probing into such issues as “mounting population and metropolis, traffic conditions in burgeoning cities and their sustainable development.
作为SOM公司的一位重量级人物，个子不高的Taylor女士此次来沪特意身穿一件深玫瑰红的中式对襟上衣显得很“中国”，双方的交流就立马显得很轻松。她的微笑可能会使她和业主
的沟通会变得更容易。因此她给人的第一印象是自信并具有亲和力。然而作为建筑规划界的一位专家，她的睿智和才识是在报告中源源地体现和被我们发现的。研讨会上，原本让人理解为Taylor女士将要对纽约和上海的城市建筑与规划进行一个比较性的学术演讲和对话。但比较遗憾的是，Taylor女士更多的只是介绍了纽约的时代华纳广场、纽约被毁的世贸中心原址上重新设计的自由大厦等5个项目，以及她诠释的一些设计理念。虽然时间紧凑，但是，Taylor女士点到为止精辟的阐述、大胆的构想、无顾忌的建筑批评，还是令在场的业界人士为之一振。
Mrs. Taylor’s medium height never prevents her from being a heavyweight in SOM Company. Wearing a rose nude Chinese-style coat with buttons down the front and a ready smile, she looks quite “Chinese” during her stay here, making the communication between the host and guest parties more enjoyable and relaxing. The first impression left in people’s minds is her confidence, kindness and goodwill. However, as an expert in this field, she delivered her sagacity and talents, together with her judicious report. People expected that she could present an academic speech and dialogue on the comparisons over Urban Construction and Planning between New York and Shanghai. However, regrettably, she merely briefed five projects ranging from Time Warner Plaza to the Freedom Tower redesigned on the original site of the demolished World Trade Center in New York, as well as some design concepts out of her interpretation. Straitened in a tight schedule, Mrs. Taylor still succeeded in Triggering quite a ripple with her sophisticated yet subtle remarks, extravagant conception, and forthright criticism.
Taylor女士自称来自一个小城市，作为一个建筑师和城市规划师来与上海的建筑与规划师们进行一个交流。她认为，建筑师们关心的问题是全球化、竞争、和城市的拥挤等问题。但她更关注的是城市的基础设施建设和城市的可持续发展。她认为，全球有66亿人口，其中有半数集中在城市，建筑规划界要研究这个问题。Taylor女士认为关注这个问题要有几个原则。第一个原则是城市的交通，规划好交通是城市发展的首要。第二个原则是城市的密度，不能离开城市的公共空间去谈城市的密度。她介绍了SOM公司和上海城市规划设计研究院成功合作的上海崇明岛规划，这个项目获得了美国建筑规划大奖。第三个原则是高层建筑的设计，不能不考虑人去谈高层建筑，只有考虑在楼内这些人的各种因素才能成功地去设计高层。
Having claimed to be from a small city, she valued the trip to Shanghai --- a much bigger one --- as a priceless opportunity to interact with Chinese counterparts, the architects and urban planners here. To her knowledge, the territory of average architects is confined to such issues as the globalization,
competition and overcrowd of the city, whereas her turf goes much further and wider --- urban infrastructure construction and sustainable development, precisely due to the very fact that cities are dwelled by half of the 6.6 billion people on this planet --- the fact that should be on the radar of the experts in the architectural planning circle. In her opinion, to address this issue, some principles shall be observed. The first is related to urban traffic, for seamless traffic planning serves as the prerequisite for urban development. The second lies in the density of a city, which shouldn’t be divorced from public space. Here, She illustrated the Shanghai Chongming Island Planning Project, an American architectural prize laureate, which was co-brain mastered by SOM Company and Shanghai Urban Planning and Design Institute. The third principle focuses on the design of high-rise, which shouldn’t be distanced from the consideration given to, among others, human being and the design of which should be based on its residents.
Taylor女士的学术交流时间虽然不长，但是显现的设计灵光确是显而易见的。比如，她举例纽约下曼哈顿区16公顷面积的规划设计，这个地理位置3分钟可以到曼哈顿，5分钟可以到布鲁克林。滨河的一段有一英里长的高架项目。她以图说事建议把高架的一半车道恢复成人行道，还种上绿化，这是一个大胆的设想。当然她认为要实现这个设想，城市的汽车少一点会好得多。她介绍说纽约差不多有70-80%的市民开始乘坐公共交通，因此她提议把以前被车占领的空间解放出来对城市发展会有益处。高架的车流量怎么解决肯定是一个问题，开始可能会受到阻力，如政府就会持反对态度。这个设计要成为事实也将是若干年以后的事，但是她认为作为一个建筑师应该有责任和义务去向政府提出。Taylor女士认为如果这个设想是正确的我们应该这样去做。辟一半高架道成为人行道，这在国内的建筑师们是无论如何不敢想象的吧？看来SOM公司不少项目的成功之处就是源于这种自信吧。
The sharing of time with Mrs. Taylor was short, but not her crystal-clear ingenuity in design. For instance, she gave an example of the planning and design of the 16-hectare area of Lower Manhattan in New York, three minutes drive to Manhattan, and five minutes to Brooklyn. Along the riverside lies a one-mile viaduct project. She ventured to restore half of the vehicle line to walkway, and even went further to blanket it with greeneries --- a bold mentality by all means. Undoubtedly, less motor traffic is indispensable to the materialization of this blueprint. Since 70-80% of New Yorkers began to choose public transport system, it will not be a bad idea to emancipate the space squeezed by vehicles for urban development. Admittedly, how to tackle the heavy-traffic volume on the elevated line remains a
question mark, which is bound to meet NO voices since its inception, for example, from the government. What’s more, the fulfillment of this design will be a story years away from today, but she regarded the proposal of such program to the government should be the duties and obligations of an architect like herself, claiming that if we believe it is a good ides, why not just try it? The idea of switching half of the elevated highway to walkway is viewed as fool’s paradise from domestic point of view. In this connection, conceivably, the success of the SOM Company is in part thanks to such confidence.
对于项目的实施，Taylor女士介绍说，SOM会组织一个很好的项目小组全身心地投入到这个项目中去。在最初阶段每一个成员都会贡献好的点子，然后建筑师和技术有关的技术人员会有很紧密地合作，了解当前最新的建筑结构、最新的建筑材料，然后把这些最新的东西带到设计中去。在演讲中Taylor女士明确表示：“我们的建筑师和结构工程师，就不会去设计北京CCTV新大楼这样一种突兀的结构，我们当然会致力于创新，去寻找更加有效率的结构体系”。
The implementation of the project calls for the devotion of a well-organized team, at the initial stage of which each member could contribute his own pearl of wisdom, followed by the synergy between the architects and relevant technical personnel, who are to be acquainted with the latest architectural structure and up-to-date building materials, and then converge them into the design. In the speech, Mrs. Taylor uttered her idea in an explicit manner that “our architects and structural engineers are destined for innovation and more efficient structural system while for sure dumping such protruding structure as that of new CCTV building in Beijing,
对于上海的城市规划有何建议？Taylor女士认为，上海不同尺度的建筑都能在这座城市中友好共存。但读不懂得是：城市的一边是居住区，一边是办公楼，这样就会造成交通的拥堵。上海对于水景观的利用方面做的很努力也很成功，但对于城市人口的密度控制还有很长的路要走。需要迫切解决的三个关键问题是：可持续发展和城市绿化；补充与再利用现有城市区域；上海城市的扩大与建立相应的卫星城市。
With regard to the urban planning in Shanghai, Mrs. Taylor favors the mindset that buildings of different height and variety are able to parallel with one another. But she frowns at the layout that residential quarters are on one side of the city while the office buildings are on the other, as virtually such status quo only invites traffic gridlock. The utilization of urban water front landscape in Shanghai
is quite impressive, unfortunately, there will be a long way to go for the curb of population density. Nowadays, as Mrs. Taylor sees it, three priorities probably are: the sustainable development and urban greening, replenishment and reutilization of the incumbent urban areas, and the expansion of this cosmopolis and its corresponding satellite cities.