What does time bring to architecture?
Bruno,G. said that buildings produce shadow changes with different height of sun in one day. With the different weather of a year, different visual effects are produced.I think a good building should not only be beutiful when it is built, but also focus on the changes of four seasons,sunrise and sunset, and even decades later, when the building has experienced wind and rain erosion, it can also show different feeling.For example, the ten sceneries of West Lake refer to different scenery in different seasons. There is a Taihu Lake stone in Suzhou garden, which only casts the reflection of the sun and moon at a certain time.
Abbas.M.A think Hong Kong people lack sense of cultural identity.But I want to say: “Look at The Pawn!Time make the function of building changed,it also add history and culture.Builings help people to remember time,that make Hong Kong culture more charming.”
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Giuliana Bruno’s piece mainly discussed how films become the architect of the time-out. “Empire” anchored its narrative in the building and how everything that happens around the building affected it and clearly is the foreground and main character in the film. This film, which was produced in 1964 and considered as one of the manifestations of the post-war late modernism that was questioning and rethinking the notion of time a lot. Bruno also reflects upon the works of Tsai Ming-Liang who also brought forward the set (an empty apartment, a bed, a bath) as static while space was later transformed and witness the life that happens within it. Bruno refers to this as “… a radical refashioning of a politics of time. … A politics of time means giving space to time” (p,94). It is worthwhile to take a closer look at these particular objectives while reading Bruno.
On the other hand, one of the key takeaways from Abbas’ article is that the notion of “disappearance/appearance” cannot be seen separately and always comes in pair. Time definitely does numbers to the city. You mentioned how time changes building functions. One of the ways to sharpen the statement in by reflecting upon Abbas’ elaboration on the politics and power-play between the British empire, Hong Kong, and China behind this appearance/disappearance as well as how the architecture of the city has been built and rebuilt through the time.