Quote Originally Posted by Waterways View Post
On these skyscraper sites the loonies there drool on about how tall this is and that is, and what a skyline. Paris has few talls, yet what a city!!!

Croydon has a number of talls in a cluster - not one is of any merit at all. The same with most of Birmingham and Manchester. Birmingham has one iconic building of any type and Manchester none. Most of the talls are from identikit skyscraper boxes. Very third world

People in a city see it from the ground and what is offered to them on the ground.



Tall buildings have their place. They have to be quality as they are so prominent.
...true enough. Think Rome, think Berlin. Though, to be fair, in the Paris example the La Defense district is visually at least a highly impressive counterpoint.

As for talls in general, I think we're conditioned to hope that someone is going to recreate the iconic clusters and buildings of Manhatten..It would be nice, of course but economics are different now, 'design' is subserviant to function and 'function' in the context of creating an office blocks just aint that spectacular. And we're not washing around in billions of dollars like Hong Kong or Dubai.

Still, I get as excited about this crap as anyone else.