"Superheroes used to leap from tall buildings," she said. "Now, skyscrapers are the hero to save [cities]." Though the skyscraper was invented in the United States with seven- and ten-story structures in New York and Chicago, the latest trend is no more apparent than in emerging economie...
Rabsel Dorji: My father, my late father, when he was growing up in the '60s and '70s, Bhutan was-- there was no roads in the country. He had to travel for two, three days on horseback to get to school. Bhutan was, and is today, largely a subsistence agricul...
July 2016 – The CPISP reaffirmed for me the importance of cooperation. At first, building chairs out of balloons and skyscrapers out of sticks didn’t seem meaningful. But as I learned to apply different types of leadership styles to real-life situations and honed my communication skills to ...
This comeback American city is making a splash with global cuisine, amazing art, and a revolutionary spirit.
It includes a visit to the towering skyscrapers of the Financial District (towers that themselves make a multimodal statement about the wealth, power and prestige); a cruise along the Huangpu River; a stroll along Zhongshan Road; a performance at the Acrobat Dome; high end shopping in Xintiandi...
There are many people living and working in New York City. Land there is very expensive. Skyscrapers are a great choice for saving land. Meanwhile, designers wanted to make the Steinway Tower a landmark. Part of the building is the 96-year-old historic site of Steinway Hall. It was famou...
But the “Cadillac Desert” author got at least one thing very wrong, declaring that dams “will outlast anything else we have built — skyscrapers, cathedrals, bridges, even nuclear power plants.” “When forests push through the rotting streets of New York ...
It looked like a fever dream: the skyscrapers with their white glowing windows against a city in Martian red; a world that had already ended without noticing. Another journalist described the scene. ‘People really don’t know what to do right now. Everyone on the Embarcadero is stopping to...
There should be a spirit of understanding even if the entire planet is being turned on its head.” Yet to Come? The Restructuring of Skyscrapers Some of what I wrote in my 2016 book, I am still uncertain about. For example, on page 230: “Skyscrapers in 2020 will not be the ...
accountability. They allow themselves to do insider trading. Conflict of interest is not in the American language. They do just about what they like. The worst thing that could possibly happen to them is they resign and keep the money they took in bribes from lobbyists. There is no ...