Kaktus Towers Tuned to a Dead Channel ~ Copenhagen 2023 vs 2024

KaKtus Towers, Copenhagen, June 2023. Architect: Bjarke Ingels.
KaKtus Towers, Copenhagen, June 2023. Architect: Bjarke Ingels.

Kaktus Towers, Kalvebod Brygge, Copenhagen, Denmark. The photo, shot with a vintage Nikon D3, is from June 2023.

Natural lightning and a minimal amount of post-processing.

Architects: Bjarke Ingels Group.

Kaktus Towers Tuned to a Dead Channel

Kaktus Towers, Kalvebod Brygge, Copenhagen. Arhictect: Bjarke Ingels (Group). Photo: Kasper Bergholt.
Kaktus Towers, Kalvebod Brygge, Copenhagen. Arhictect: Bjarke Ingels (Group).

A reference to William Gibson

William Gibson is often quoted for the phrase: ‘The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed’ (in an interview with the Economist).

I wonder if Bjarke Ingels read William Gibson’s ‘Neuromancer’ in the 80s. The first sentence of the novel reads: “The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel”.

For the average young person today a dead channel is blue, if a channel is ever dead, I wonder? To my generation a dead channel was black & white (an ‘ant war’ if was referred to metaphorically).

To a young Gibson it must have been a warm grey-ish as the vacuum tubes got sufficiently warm to present images.