{"id":7103,"date":"2015-01-20T18:41:40","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T02:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=7103"},"modified":"2018-05-02T16:21:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T23:21:50","slug":"7103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=7103","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div  style='height:5px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_third  \" ><p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7107 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pheonixtowers1EDIT.jpg\" alt=\"pheonixtowers1EDIT\" width=\"675\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pheonixtowers1EDIT.jpg 675w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pheonixtowers1EDIT-112x80.jpg 112w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pheonixtowers1EDIT-260x185.jpg 260w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pheonixtowers1EDIT-450x321.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_two_third  el_before_av_hr  \" ><div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">UK architecture firm\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">Chetwoods&#8217; latest design juts from the ground like two giant stalagmites.<\/span>\u00a0Standing a full kilometer (3,281 ft) tall, the structure might be the key to solving China&#8217;s catastrophic pollution problem on every level. By using a complex mechanical system to simultaneously filter Wuhan\u2019s air and water, collect solar, wind, and hydrogen power, provide produce from a massive vertical garden, harvest rainwater, house restaurants and businesses, boil biomass, and generally aim to solve every major ecological crisis faced by central China&#8217;s &#8220;Fourth Pole,&#8221; the Phoenix Towers just might live up to their name. The Phoenix Towers are\u00a0designed to resonate with local religion and philosophy. The towers link Western technology and architecture to the Chinese myths of the phoenix; two towers represent the dual gender the legendary bird has in Chinese iconography, and the spirit of rebirth is spread throughout all eight hectares of the the half-mile high towers. (<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #339966;\" title=\"Pheonix Towers\" href=\"http:\/\/thecreatorsproject.vice.com\/blog\/chinese-skyscraper-of-the-future-will-shatter-height-record-and-pollution-problems\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>[easy-share buttons=&#8221;facebook,twitter,linkedin,mail&#8221; counters=0 native=&#8221;no&#8221; image=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/yusuke-asai-waf-1.jpg url=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=7103 facebook_text=Share twitter_text=Tweet\u00a0linkedin_text=Link text=&#8221;UK Architecture Firm Chetwoods&#8217; Phoenix Towers&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/div> <div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_two_third '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_two_third  flex_column_div first  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_one_third  \" ><p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7106 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pheonixtowers2EDIT.jpg\" alt=\"pheonixtowers2EDIT\" width=\"675\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pheonixtowers2EDIT.jpg 675w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pheonixtowers2EDIT-91x80.jpg 91w, https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/pheonixtowers2EDIT-450x395.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p><\/div> <div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_div   avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_two_third  avia-builder-el-last  \" ><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing a full kilometer (3,281 ft) tall, the structure might be the key to solving China&#8217;s catastrophic pollution problem on every level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18374,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7103\/revisions\/18374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}