Description
No other architectural typology has transformed the urban landscape ideologically as much as the skyscraper. It?s presence in the modern metropolis represents a recombinant strategy of hyper-densification, cutting-edge structural and material technology, flexible programming, touristic intrigue, and iconic visual acuity. While spatial and economic shifts during the latter half of the 20th Century have certainly challenged the skyscraper?s efficacy as an sustainable typology, its attraction to developers and politicians ensures it?s continued emergence in future city skylines. In this sense, it is not simply representative of contemporary urbanism physically, but it is a dominant cultural cipher within contemporary metropolitan praxis as well.