We peer up at skyscrapers old and new, visit their highest floors, turn them this way and that to see them clearly through the psychology (Tom Vanderbilt) and physiology (Emily Badger) of living and working on high, and through the lens of policy in the low-rise counterexample of Washingto...
The architectural diversity is worth calling out; if you like unique-looking, retro-futuristic skyscrapers, you'd love Astana. On the surface, Astana seems like any other global city (smooth roads, reliable power, strong mobile signals, etc.), but just stepping outside the center of the "...
Hollywood gazes into the future and sees skyscrapersBy Kate LinthicumLos Angeles Times
Imagine AC units in skyscrapers all over Manhattan funneling the captured carbon into a basement, wherein an automated conversion plant would convert the carbon bounty into a storable liquid. Perhaps little of it will ever need to be used, depending on how quickly society electrifies its transporta...
It’s hard to imagine cities looking much different than they do today. Towering skyscrapers, bustling sidewalks and busy traffic have been the norm for decades, and tightly-packed buildings leave little room for new construction. However, as the global population grows and more people flock to ...
the global population is expected to grow by 2.2 billion people, and 90% of that growth is expected to take place in cities that are in dire need of new housing. In China, one company has figured out how to deal with this challenge by prefabricating components for skyscrapers inside of ...
About 50 minutes later, my colleagues and I reached Xiong'an, Hebei Province, from Beijing. As the taxi drove us through the city, the skyline began to take shape. But to our surprise, there were no towering skyscrapers in sight.
With only 725.1 km² in land area—half the size of Los Angeles—Singapore has been building ever higher skyscrapers and reclaiming land to unlock more space and host its population, which has grown from just over 4 million in 2000 to 5.7 million in 2019. ...
Manhattan's Skyscrapers Through the Lens of Florian Mueller The latest craze in experimental photography seems to center around the artistic technique that ByRobert Marshall Jr./Oct 5, 2012 495 Views 0 Comments Art Supreme At 032c Workshop/Joerg Koch ...
highlighting the contrast between rich and poor - sheer skyscrapers of polished glass and obsidian sheen for the coked-out corpos and impossibly tall megabuildings where the citizens live cramped in ominous concrete blocks. Floating industrial freighters rumble through the sky overhead, beaming down ...