Will the appeal of Skyscrapers endure, even as pundits again predict the end of the office version—thanks to remote work? RECORD spoke with Carol Willis, the founding director of the Skyscraper Museum in Manhattan, to take the temperature of commercial construction’s hothouse flower—the supertall. (The museum’s definition of supertall, distinctly its own, is any building that exceeds the Empire State Building’s 1,250 feet.) Her latest exhibition, Supertall! 2020, traces the tall-building type through eight examples as a perpetual reconciliation of architectural art, engineering prowess, and cash cow. It is online—at skyscraper.org—along with video talks by the architects and engineers who designed the buildings.
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