This week I read a piece of very interesting news---Norway Builds the World's Most Humane Prison. The writer is William Lee Adams, Times’ senior editor.
Look at the picture above the story! An inmate is dancing hip-hop... or singing a song , with a big smile…on the wall. However, that place is not a club or an Art Gallery. It is a new prison in Norway, which is regarded as the World's Most Humane Prison.
To make the article more attractive, the writer used anecdote as the beginning of the story. The sentence “this isn't cabaret night at Oslo's Royal Palace. It's a gala to inaugurate Halden Fengsel, Norway's newest prison” reflected the dramatic difference between Halden prison and other prisons worldwide. After that the writer introduced the location of the prison, its functions as well as its structures. Compared to American’ prisons, inmates in Halden prison can have cooking class and made delicious orange sorbet.
Furthermore, the writer went on to discuss the unique design of Halden prison in the next several paragraphs. As the writer described in his story, the exteriors of this prison “are not concrete but made of bricks, galvanized steel and larch”. The Halden prison seems to have grown organically from the woodlands. Besides, the writer was also good at utilizing quotes and comments to describe his agreement of this distinctive architecuture . For example, he cited Hans Henrik Hoilund, one of the prison's architects’ quotes "the most important thing is that the prison looks as much like the outside world as possible" to express designers’ intention, which was to avoid an institutional feel.
I think a large number of prisoners would want to live there….
What a humane prison!
Links: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1986002,00.html
Good design idea of the prison. I do like the quote saying that ".... as much like the outside world as possible". I think if the writing can deliver a vivid image to audiences, that would be the success.
ReplyDeleteIt is a pretty cool design idea for a prison and I bet prisoners do want to live there. However, my question is if some is in prison did they not do something seriously wrong? Why would you give them a beautiful home? Does that not defeat the purpose of being imprisoned. Is the whole point about being in prison that you need to suffer for your crime and not to learn how to cook fancy dishes.
ReplyDeleteawesome prison!!! now maybe everyone in Norway wants to live there~hohoho~
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