Recently Slate published a slideshow that gives a nice run down of the booming world of modern skyscrapers. It’s very general but gives a good sense of what’s happening in skyscraper design in the post-9/11 world.
And speaking of slide shows, concierge.com has an interesting 23 slides of “The Visionaries” of our time. Here I find Jean Nouvel’s Torre Agbar a really interesting structure. (It might also be featured in the Slate show). The idea of increasing the base of the structure could really take modern buildings into a whole new realm; specifically, as these structures come to take up more and more physical space (what other kind of space?) you start looking at communities within communities, ‘enclosed’ neighborhoods within cities. Cool, right? And how about NYC’s PATH terminal?
I have also been BIG into Geoff Manaugh’s BLDG Blog recently. It’s hard to explain, but if you have any passing interest in architecture and its wider societal implications — it’s all about connections — check it out.
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