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GRAND CANYON WEST, ARIZ. The Skywalk: stunning structure or crass eyesore...
...Bruno suggests, Tsai’s hallmark is perhaps his extreme sensitivity to time and space, from the portrayal of the city street to the interiors of the bedroom. The Skywalk Is Gone, a short film shown at the same screening, centers around the disappearance of a skywalk in a busy corner of Taipei and the hiatus in human relationships which it creates. Like in Goodbye, there are many shots of the chic female protagonist walking, only this time it is not the resonant corridors of the abandoned theatre but the clamorous streets and peopled landscape of the city...
With its glass-walled atrium and skywalk, marble-walled terminal and soaring, Teflon-spired roof mimicking the peaks of the nearby Rockies, the brand-new Denver International Airport, the nation's largest, would be a prize for most cities. But there was no joy in the Mile-High City last week as Mayor Wellington Webb summoned reporters to his city-hall office to announce an indefinite delay in the airport's opening. To begin operations prematurely with a malfunctioning baggage system, the mayor warned, could be "disastrous...
Enthusiasm for skywalks has not been ubiquitous. In the 1970s, when corporate headquarters and shoppers were abandoning its downtown, Hartford came very close to erecting a skywalk system as a way, its boosters hoped, to revitalize the city's downtown. Local opposition, on both fiscal and philosophical grounds, prevented all but a few skywalks from being built. Meanwhile, downtown Hartford has undergone a renaissance on its own. A 1982 / Seattle ordinance prohibits any skybridge that blocks a vista or reduces street traffic -- in effect, all skywalks...
Despite the generally balmy weather in Atlanta, Architect-Developer John Portman loves nothing more than connecting his bombastic towers and atriums with skywalks: one running through Peachtree Center is 640 ft. long. "People moved to the suburbs because they want low anxiety," Portman says. "We must bring them back to the center city. The pedestrian bridge is a part of that." Now, however, Atlanta zoning officials are considering a recommendation by the 300-member Central Area Study group to prohibit further skywalk construction downtown. As the novelty value of skywalks palls and as more cities realize that downtown vitality...