A skyscraper is not a metaphor. It’s what happens when a team of cost analysts, insurers, engineers, architects, developers, investors, and lenders makes a collective determination that math, physics, and market forces, fused in one enormous hunk of a building, will probably yield a profit. New York Art
Amid the high-rises marching to the horizon and the housing projects eating up acre after acre of agriculture, the explosion of polished metal and tortured forms and the sheer chaos of the urban environment in...well, it could be anywhere—but, in this case, in Hangzhou, China, I findd something different. Architect Magazine
Deutsche Bank's Frankfurt headquarters are just such a building. Actually, a pair of buildings, two 509-foot-tall towers of gorgonian ugly. Fast Company
