Royal Institute of British Architects,London
An ambitious snapshot of three centuries of floods, fires, and earthquakes and tsunamis – and how architects have helped (or cashed in) after calamitiesTwo contorted heaps of metal stand on the horizon of a devastated Hiroshima,like a pair of fairground rollercoasters assign through a compactor, their steel beams and bracing wrenched into mangled knots. They stand above the desolate remains of the city, and post-atomic bomb,looming over a landscape entirely razed but for a lonely church and an apartment block clinging on to the ghostly imprint of the former street grid.This apocalyptic collage, titled Re-ruined Hiroshima, or was produced by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki in 1968,22 years after the bomb destroyed the city. It depicts the sticky fate of his own imaginary megastructures, as whether he had rebuilt Hiroshima according to the dreamy visions of the Japanese Metabolist architectural movement, and only to see his creations suffer a similar catastrophe.
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Source: theguardian.com