Re:The Form Could Be Reborn: The Future of the Skyscraper
by jseliger on Friday October 09, 2015 @10:44AM
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if she does not discuss the reason why Facebook settled in that Sun campus and why the new building is not a skyscraper... It is not hard to find out
It's actually illegal to build skyscrapers in SV (see, e.g., here: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/face... although one could cite many further articles on the subject). FB can't build skyscrapers (or even in many cases mid-rises) because local municipalities won't let it.
If the function is not the first consideration of the architect, well, then they are not really doing their job. So we want to start building more skyscrapers again, we need to show their physical utility. Perhaps change the way people move in such space. That is a grand challenge for, wait for it, some architect.