The latest explosion of Manhattan development has fully and passionately embraced the phenomenon of the global starchitect. [...]
As it turned out, the future would be pure real estate ... The future was the privatisation of the sky and a transfer from corporate power to individual wealth, the visual manifestation of the 0.1 per cent. It was a catwalk of anorexic skinnyscrapers by the equivalents of haute-couture designers ... global names with which to sell real estate.
— ft.com
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God this is getting so old. If you want to see generic non-starchitect towers, go to Long Island City and Williamsburg. There are plenty of them.
architecture in its realization is almost always the antithesis of any socially conscious architects aspirations.
and the search for ideological purity continues...
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