URBANO
Urbano you should stick around and illustrate the testicular foirtitude that we know you are capable of. If nothing else you've stimulated some debate regarding tall buildings and roused DaiB from his exile of late. Even Jantra has upped his game in terms of content which is no mean feat (sorry Jantra, couldn't resist )
I happen to agree with you in terms of the quality of tall buildings and the general note of caution that you sound. Have we learnt nothing from Ty Pont Haearn I ask. Where we differ is the comparison to Edinburgh, Bristol etc which is as far off the mark as comparisons to New York and Dubai. Also I can't get my head around the general proposition that there is a correlation between low rise buildings and affluence. Where I also agree with you is that we should be building a city of scale and density not isolated statement buildings that have no context.
Thank you very much Karl. Very kind of you.I did think things were getting very bogged down indeed . Talking about testicular fortitude (!) I was concerned that it was all becoming a bit of an adolescent penis- like litany .....my tower's bigger than your tower.....
It was rather the implication that there is a connection between high rise buildings and affluence which I was challenging; if these towers contained serious profitable businesses then arguably yes, but since they will just be crammed with spotty drunk plagiarising adolescents I hardly think so; for exactly the same reason, I would not have thought "exciting" would be the first word to spring to mind. Even resi doesn't fit exciting; no one has yet been stupid or dishonest enough to claim that tower in Swansea has made that city "exciting".
I happen to agree with you in terms of the quality of tall buildings and the general note of caution that you sound. Have we learnt nothing from Ty Pont Haearn I ask. Where we differ is the comparison to Edinburgh, Bristol etc which is as far off the mark as comparisons to New York and Dubai. Also I can't get my head around the general proposition that there is a correlation between low rise buildings and affluence. Where I also agree with you is that we should be building a city of scale and density not isolated statement buildings that have no context.
Thank you very much Karl. Very kind of you.I did think things were getting very bogged down indeed . Talking about testicular fortitude (!) I was concerned that it was all becoming a bit of an adolescent penis- like litany .....my tower's bigger than your tower.....
It was rather the implication that there is a connection between high rise buildings and affluence which I was challenging; if these towers contained serious profitable businesses then arguably yes, but since they will just be crammed with spotty drunk plagiarising adolescents I hardly think so; for exactly the same reason, I would not have thought "exciting" would be the first word to spring to mind. Even resi doesn't fit exciting; no one has yet been stupid or dishonest enough to claim that tower in Swansea has made that city "exciting".