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Mark Lamster and Alexandra Lange at Places:The Design Observer discuss Supertall – a recent exhibit on the world’s tallest buildings at New York’s Skyscraper Museum. The exhibition focuses on buildings built between 2001 and 2016 that are taller than the Empire State Building (100 stories plus) – a total of 48 projects worldwide. Lamster notes, “The irony is that these supertall buildings are designed to be iconic, memorable signs for the cities that build them, but their similarity works against that desire, and instead we seem to be creating placeless modern places that look great in ads for luxury automobiles.”
Image from Places:Design Observer
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