Virtual Tour: Skyscrapers, Highrises, and Supertalls
Nov 21, 2020
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2020-11-21 12:00:00
2020-11-21 13:00:00
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Virtual Tour: Skyscrapers, Highrises, and Supertalls
Join AIANY tour guide Joseph Lengeling, AIA, for an armchair tour of the recent proliferation of supertall office and residential towers on the New York skyline. For the greater part of the 19th century, New York was arguably the center of the world in the development of the skyscraper typology; whenever the newest, tallest skyscraper appeared in New York it was simultaneously the tallest building in the world. Today, although Asia and the Middle East make claims to these superlatives