Contrary to expectations after 9/11, both extraordinary and ordinary skyscrapers have been constructed at a high rate in the last six years. This building has been in response to both the desire for architecture to be dramatic branding and marketing of cities and corporations and the rapid urbanization of developing countries. Amid all the glamour and frenzy of this production, there has hardly been time to consider what this feature section tries to address: how good is all this new work architecturally, socially, and environmentally?
26: New Skyscrapers in Megacities on a Warming Globe S/S 2007
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Table of Contents
Essays
Bangalore: Dysfunctional Boom Town
Coming to Our Senses: Architecture and the Non-Visual
Condo Cool: Starchitect Branding and the Cost of “Effortless Living” or, Another Episode in the Continuing Quest for Social Status through Design
High Rise Phylum 2007
No Building Is an Island: A Look at the Different Scales of Energy
Paffard Keatinge-Clay: Innovation through Mastery, Mastery through Innovation
Paths from the Pompidou: Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers
Truth in Tall Buildings
Reviews
Built upon Love: Architecture and Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics by Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Deccan Traverses: The Making of Bangalore’s Terrain by Anuradha Mathur and Dilip Da Cunha
Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects by Manfredo Tafuri
Team 10, 1953 – 1981: In Search of a Utopia of the Present edited by Max Risselada and Dirk van den Heuvel
The Landscape Urbanism Reader, 2006 edited by Charles Waldheim
