Skyscrapers are the new cathedrals – but are we worshipping a false idol?
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High-rise living is no longer synonymous with crime and deprivation.
Taking stock of modernist buildings and their potential for reuse is a necessary public project in Johannesburg. A new book that tells the stories of reuse in this African metropolis can help do that.
The birth of the skyscraper took an obsession with height to a whole new level.
We need to move away from thinking about the skyscraper as an “icon”. Instead, we should be asking how the tall building – which will always “stand out” – can also “fit in” to cities.
Stark new additions to our urban landscape are usually met with moaning – but it rarely lasts.
A defence of La Défense, and other towering architecture across the globe.
Good historians know that history rarely teaches clear lessons. When it does, we should heed them. In the 1920s, urban visionaries completely refashioned midtown Manhattan, making it the most modern and…
Skyscrapers always provoke some extreme reactions, and the sale of London’s Gherkin as a result of the bankruptcy of one of its current owners is no exception. For a century, ever since the property explosions…
Skyscrapers could one day generate enough power to offset much of their energy consumption, thanks to a breakthrough by Australian researchers who have moved a step closer to creating solar-cell windows…
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Head of School and Professor of Architecture, UNSW Built Environment, UNSW
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Lecturer in Architecture, Practice and Design, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Building Technology, Università Iuav di Venezia
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Assistant Professor in Architecture, University of Nottingham
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Associate professor of Architecture, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research fellow, The University of Queensland
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Architectural Technologist and Urban Designer, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer in History, La Trobe University
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Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Bristol
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Associate Professor of Urban Design, University of Pennsylvania
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Professor of HIstory, Lafayette College
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Professor of Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland
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Associate Professor in Criminology, Macquarie University
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Lecturer in International Relations, The University of Western Australia
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Executive Director, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat; Visiting Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University Shanghai; Research Professor of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology