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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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Associate Professor in Architecture, UNSW Sydney
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Lecturer in Architecture, Practice and Design, Swinburne University of Technology
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Assistant Professor in Architecture, University of Nottingham
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Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of History of Art, Vanderbilt University
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Architectural Technologist and Urban Designer, Nottingham Trent University
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PhD Candidate in History, University of Exeter
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Macquarie University
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Professor of Sustainability Science, Edinburgh Napier University
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Associate professor of Architecture, University of the Witwatersrand
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Lecturer in International Relations, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer, Monash University, Monash University
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Associate Professor of Urban Design, University of Pennsylvania
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Director, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, Queen's University, Ontario
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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
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Tenured Researcher in Building Technology, Università Iuav di Venezia
