09.12.2025
episode
Model City: Towers w/ Accou Laposte & Marjolein Guldentops
Model City is a thematic radio mix series that explores how we live, remember, and dream the city. Each episode traces a subtheme, listening to the city from another angle. This time we look at the architectural heights that shape our urban imagination: towers and skyscrapers as monuments of ambition and anxiety, structures of power and solitude, rising above the street.
DDR – Bau und Eröffnung des Fernsehturms in Berlin (excerpt)
Ethel Cain – Radio Towers
Adult Fantasies – Under a Steelplate Sky
Gary Farrelly reading the O.J.A.I. Towers List
La construction de la Tour du Midi à Bruxelles (excerpt)
FAKETHIAS – Glass Towers
CBC Archives – Building the CN Tower (excerpt)
BBC Archive – 1969: What on Earth Is the Liverpool Beacon? (excerpt)
Rebekka Karijord feat. Roomful of Teeth – Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower
BBC Archive – 1979: Steeplejack Fred Dibnah takes down a massive chimney brick by brick (excerpt)
Shirley Clarke – Skyscraper (excerpt)
Giorgio Mordor – Ivory Tower
Women in WWII: U.S. Navy Control Tower Operators (excerpt)
Dip in the Pool – View
Building the Space Needle in Seattle (excerpt)
Final Destination’s opening scene of the Space Needle collapse (excerpt)
David Shire – Manhattan Skyline
Salvatore Adamo – Die Wolkenkratzer
Readings:
Woordentorenlijst
Gaston Bachelard – The Poetics of Space
Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities
Johanna Hedva – On Hell