![]() ![]() Technologies in real trouble with society - nuclear power, for instance - are continually generating new, exciting complaints. Old-fashioned complaints rarely pose big problems for innovators. ![]() Identical things were said about the Eiffel Tower in the 1880s. There are some complaints, of course, those standard complaints: the aggressive, thrusting showiness, the lack of a straightforward business model, the spoilt views of historic skylines. Yet they inspire no apparent fear the public greets them with kindness and complacency. Today’s supertall structures, seen objectively, are risky, daring, even rather scary. They showed impressive formal vitality, in a startling panoply of unheard-of shapes and stylings. Skyscrapers multiplied in many locales never before graced with their presence. Over a dozen years later, and we can see: quite the opposite came to pass. It so transfixed the public imagination that some feared skyscrapers would no longer be built. This dismal act involved aircraft and skyscrapers. Some among my readers may recall a dreadful incident, created by a dark genius of political theater, in September of 2001. ![]()
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