文档介绍：Riverside Three
This is an edited version of a text first published in Norman Foster, Buildings and Projects, Volume
4, Watermark, 1990.
Riverside is a pioneering example of a modern British building, which reintroduces the idea of
mixed-use development. By helping to create a work of pedestrian routes, the project has
also played a major role in regenerating the local neighbourhood. Significantly, the building's
completion also marked a watershed in the evolution of Foster and Partners, as the practice is
now known.
Although it has recently e fashionable to advocate the virtues of mixing uses such as living
and working in one location, there are, at the time of writing, few contemporary examples of these
ideas in Britain. It is easy to cite historical examples of such coexistence in the Middle Ages or the
Renaissance, even up to the eenth century. For example, the tenement buildings of Glasgow
combined shops and pubs at ground level, offices immediately above, and then several levels of
residential modation over that — rising between five and seven storeys in all.
munities, however, are in direct contrast to most of today's planning guidelines,
which specify separate zones for residential, commercial or industrial use, or for leisure and
culture. The consequent problems of this approach to urban planning — the social alienation, the