¿Sabías que el Rock no nació con Elvis ni Chuck Berry? Nació con la guitarra de Sister Rosetta Tharpe. 🎸🔥Mientras la mediocridad de hoy da música plástica, ella creó el #RockHistory desde el barro. Abro esta joya de la #MusicTwitter 👇
One of the most underrated, powerful, and controversial performances of "Earth Song” in the Brit Awards, 1996. The controversy arose following a protest by Jarvis Cocker of the band Pulp, objecting to the way Michael Jackson transforms into a “messianic” figure at the end
Há 31 anos, Michael Jackson entregava uma das performances mais icônicas da história do VMA.🔥
Em 7 de setembro de 1995, Michael Jackson tomou conta do palco dos VMAs e, em poucos minutos, transformou a premiação em um verdadeiro espetáculo.
💔😔🚑If the King of Pop Michael Jackson stood still for several minutes amidst the deafening screams of the crowd and then as soon as he moved his head or took off his glasses mass fainting spells would begin 5000 people fainted that night
国立代々木競技場と「船の体育館」
1964年、東京オリンピックのために建設された国立代々木競技場。丹下健三を代表する建築であり、その最大の特徴は、柱をほとんど使わず、巨大な屋根をケーブルで吊る「吊り屋根構造」です。第一体育館では、2本の巨大な主柱からケーブルを張り渡し、そのケーブルから屋根を吊り下げています。屋根の中央が大きく沈み込み、外側へ向かって力強く反り上がる。その姿は、建築というよりも巨大な橋や船を思わせます。
そして、同じ1964年に高松で完成したのが、旧香川県立体育館、通称「船の体育館」。こちらも丹下健三の設計で、構造設計を担ったのは構造家・岡本剛です。代々木の構造設計を担ったのは坪井善勝。高松では岡本剛。二人の構造家が、丹下健三の描く巨大な無柱空間を、それぞれ異なる方法で実現しました。
興味深いのは、高松の「船の体育館」が、かつて塩田だった土地に建っていること。軟弱な地盤、体育館に必要な大空間、吊り屋根という新しい構造技術。そして瀬戸内海という土地の風景。そうした条件が重なり、高松では「船」のような建築が生まれました。東京の代々木と、高松の船。どちらも1964年という日本の高度成長期に生まれた、建築と構造が一体となった実験です。「船の体育館」を考えるとき、国立代々木競技場は、その背景にある日本の構造建築史を知るうえでも、とても重要な存在なのです。
Yoyogi National Stadium and the ‘Ship-shaped Gymnasium’
Yoyogi National Stadium was built for the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. It is one of Kenzo Tange’s most iconic architectural works, and its most distinctive feature is the ‘suspended roof structure’, in which the enormous roof is suspended by cables with virtually no use of columns. In the First Gymnasium, cables are stretched between two massive main columns, from which the roof is suspended. The centre of the roof dips deeply, whilst the edges curve powerfully upwards towards the outer edges. Its appearance is reminiscent not so much of a building as of a massive bridge or a ship.
Also completed in 1964, in Takamatsu, was the former Kagawa Prefectural Gymnasium, commonly known as the ‘Ship Gymnasium’. This too was designed by Kenzo Tange, with structural engineer Tsuyoshi Okamoto responsible for the structural design. The structural design for the Yoyogi venue was undertaken by Yoshikatsu Tsuboi, whilst in Takamatsu it was Tsuyoshi Okamoto. These two structural engineers each realised Kenzo Tange’s vision of a vast, column-free space using different methods.
What is particularly interesting is that the ‘Ship Gymnasium’ in Takamatsu stands on land that was once a salt field. The combination of soft ground, the vast space required for a gymnasium, and the new structural technology of a suspended roof, And the landscape of the Seto Inland Sea. The convergence of these conditions gave rise to a building resembling a ‘ship’ in Takamatsu. Yoyogi in Tokyo and the ‘Ship Gymnasium’ in Takamatsu.