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Rem Koolhaas provides an interesting analysis of the "bigness" as its contributions to the built environment. Although it was written in 1995, most of it is still applicable today as an analysis perspective, specifically for the dense urban environments (skyscraper blocks).
Again, despite some of his reasonings being generalized to the point of aloofness, it really spoke to me when he brought in technological advancement in buildings as a gatekeeper to different structures.
Also, a very fundamental and important recognition is that skyscrapers don't economically represent the human scale on the facade level. That alone is foundational in why these "skyscrapers" look the way they do.
Another insight is his relationship to the "urban tissue". He recognizes that the huge stacked interior spaces create a much different relationship to streetscapes than more traditional forms of urban infill.
Skyscrapers the word, is a reaction of architecture itself. Poetic in the way that architecture is creating verbiage which has never existed. Although the typology has literally no meaning except in the way that it is a vertical warehouse of metropolitan congestion, it still is a literal and metaphorical space for meaning, function and de-finement of society.
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