Eugene David ...The One-Minute Pundit |
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Saturday, September 09, 2006
We think we've figured out why decent skyscrapers may no longer be possible. The classics of the pre-Depression golden age are slim, tapered affairs. But such designs are out because of business's demand for continuous space. For a modern building to have the well-trimmed grace of the Chrysler it would have to be 5,000 feet high. Hence the blocky, uninspired corporate designs to be gaggled in Lower Manhattan, which merely compound the artlessness of history's most uninspired age.
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