Do people still care about skyscrapers anymore?

[Car Won't Crank]

I'm sure the engineering that goes into modern sky scrapers is impressive and all, but they all feel of fake, hollow, pointless. It started with the building and completion of that one Burj sky scraper in Dubai that kind of soured my outlook on them. Social media hasn't helped either where people vapidly post about visiting biggest x,y,z.

 

[retard strength]

What in tarnation's a skyscraper?

 

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The old ones were built to reflect nations and create culture while doing their economic purpose while the new ones are here to push the idea of everything cultural can be replaced by economic zones.

What about the Mecca Clock Tower? The tower on its own (not surrounded by the other 6 towers which make it look too cluttered) and its entrance is a pretty neat looking structure that pays tribute to Islamic architecture, but ironically they demolished an historic Ottoman fortress to build it plus it overshadows the Kaaba.

 

[smeckt]

People still care about skyscrapers, look at billionaire's row or Saudi Arabia's horizontal skyscraper The Line, because they are pushing the boundaries of modern engineering. But for each skyscraper that shoots up, the less impressive and outstanding the rest becomes. Even cities in third world countries have skyscrapers nowadays and skyscrapers are very much still a symbol of wealth in less developed countries.

 

[FILTH Tourist]

skyscrapers were cool from 1893 to about 1954. Once they became glass towers they became just a tall box not worth a second glance. Look at the pics 1 is from St. Louis MO 2) is from NYC you can tell developers were trying to build some thing the masses would like to look at.

I think glass can be fine, it's just that many skyscrapers are just function over form that they blend together. Investors are spending so much into these buildings and rarely put personality into them. Even if you want to make it out of glass, at least give it a unique shape like Taipei 101. That building is a city centerpiece, and it fucking knows it! It's huge, unchallenged, and instantly recognizable. It's a glass pagoda of arrogance, and I love it!

Meanwhile, LA just a stack of boxes that fight for the title of "Tallest LA Skyscraper" by inching it out using lighting rods. If any of these buildings get leveled during the big one, I doubt anyone would notice in skyline shots like people do for the Twin Towers.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

The twin towers were ugly as fuck. Just a bunch of tall concrete blocks.

But I feel strangely nostalgic about them, and USA before 911.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

The twin towers were ugly as fuck. Just a bunch of tall concrete blocks.

But I feel strangely nostalgic about them, and USA before 911.

I remember reading that when the Twin Towers were still standing most people thought they were ugly and once 9/11 happened they instantly became a symbol of America's past. Is this true?

 

[Boss Hawg]

Skyscrapers are a ugly monument to the Modern Urban society we are subservient to and I hate them.

 

[Kel1 shi1]

I remember reading that when the Twin Towers were still standing most people thought they were ugly and once 9/11 happened they instantly became a symbol of America's past. Is this true?

Absolutely.

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[Gender: Xenomorph]

I remember reading that when the Twin Towers were still standing most people thought they were ugly and once 9/11 happened they instantly became a symbol of America's past. Is this true?

Imagine 35000 people with their own private car rushing to get to the same 80000 square feet at the same time.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

Say what you want about the world trade center but it would have been really cool to of stand on top of it like in Home Alone 2.

 

[Jate Hews]

It's a tower of Babel thing mocking God, daring him to smash everything again.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

I didn't give a shit about skyscrapers records - other than a curiosity about what urban combat in a skyscraper forest would look like, and the idea of skyscraper forests in post-apocalyptic ruins, reclaimed by nature, but no interest in records - until I read The Unincorporated Man, which talks about them (future supertalls) a lot. By skyscraper forest I mean an urban landscape where skyscrapers number in the dozens and are nestled among other high-rise buildings.

Apparently the Empire State Building was a miraculous thing in how, even after nearly a century of progress, it's still one of the tallest in the world. I'm counting floors, I don't give a shit about giant antennae. It really ought to be a wonder in an RTS game. It is also much more aesthetically pleasing, with its stacked design, than most of the bland glassy towers people build now.

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The Twin Towers were ugly as hell, the only reason anybody likes them (including me) is because of their association with 9/11, but in a way they were majestic in their stark plainness and how they jutted out among the New York skyline. It's like a Cenotaph that, ironically, can only be seen from the past - from photos of before tragedy - instead of now.

The Batman Building in Nashville is very nice. It's only about 33 floors but is the largest skyscraper (if it even counts as one) I have ever seen, having never visited a skyscraper forest like NYC or Chicago yet. It has some similar features as the Empire State, with the stacking, but is more distinctive.

I would care more about skyscrapers if they made them like this one in Mecca, build them with fine details and pretty architecture. Build them like cathedrals. This doesn't live up to that high standard, but its better than most of the garbage. It's taller than Empire State.