JJ ABRAMS has an interesting take on the future of tall buildings in London, no sign of The Shard though
Concept sketches by Gehry and Piano for the NEW YORK TIMES TOWER - a crumpled-up, shredded newspaper and exclusive verticality highlighting the paper’s reach while recalling the margins of an unfolded front page - one needn’t strain to understand the winning selection
INFORMAL REVIEW full presentation slides
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Only when a building transcends its inconvenient marriage of aesthetics and economics does it become convincing, and even great, architecture
— Ada Louise Huxtable
MANHATTAN’s 700 foot towers compared to the island’s historic landmarks and districts (Is the fine grain character and history of New York’s residential neighborhoods valued more greatly than the history of its tall buildings or do the very nature of tall buildings foster the inevitable and continuous redevelopment of Midtown and Downtown so that there is no history?)
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In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever site the developer has managed to assemble
— Rem Koolhaas
Tall building CRINKLE sketch
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Truth is the significance of fact
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Exterior PUBLIC SPACE at the base of TALL BUILDINGS is often defined by large scale formal gestures created in response to a desire for that space
MID REVIEW diagrammatic presentation slides
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