Posted on 04/08/2024 11:56:38 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Only seven of the world’s 1,000 tallest buildings are in the EU. Why is that?
The tallest skylines around the world are dominated by North America, China and the Middle East. No European city comes even close to breaking the Top 20.
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Seems like they have not looked up once they stopped making cathedrals.
Every time they start building stuff for the last 1000 years they have a war that burns it all down................
I think some historic cities have rules about how tall buildings can be. I know Washington, DC does, but there are certain allowances.
I know that Paris is sitting on catacombs, that could collapse under the weight of a sky scraper.
I would say that, because Europe tends to be not so business friendly, that companies are kept smaller on average.
I would guess it has to do with energy being so expensive in Europe.
Epic.
Easy access to bedrock is a factor.
Phoenix has few by design. I like it that way. The explanation I heard was to preserve the view of the mountains. People complain about sprawl, but the alternatives are higher densities, or making areas too expensive to move too.
Mostly because of Boeing B-17s, Consolidated B-24s, Avro Lancasters and the hard men that flew them.
Washington, DC nothing can be higher than the Capital Dome.
I stayed on the 58th floor of the Vadra Hotel when it first opened. They said the only thing higher then was the Cosmopolitan by two stories. Then they finally finished the Fontainebleau hotel which is 67 stories.
The tallest in Boston is the John Hancock building at 60 stories.
Philadelphia had a rule that no building could be higher than the statue of William Penn on top of City Hall. After higher buildings went up there was an urban legend that Philadelphia sports teams would never win national championships again, so Comcast put a small statue of Penn on top of their skyscraper. BTW the guy who kept the buildinga small for many years was Edmund Bacon, the father of ... Kevin Bacon.
Frankfurt, though, does have its share of skyscrapers. So does Paris, only outside the city center.
I think the rule in DC is that in some areas a building can be no taller than the width of the street it faces plus 20 feet - or something like that. But there are areas where taller buildings are allowed.
It is ecologically immoral not to build skyscrapers
Detroit is building the New Hudson’s and it will be shorter by one story than the Renaissance Center.
I think you're on to something.
Washington DC has no skyscrapers, no building is allowed to take away the dominance of the Washington Monument.
Perhaps the same for European cathedrals?
Fewer empty eyesores that are now plaguing dem run cities. Why risk your life commuting to hellholes when you can work from home?
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