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Saw this article from the Guardian posted over at SSP. There, its being trounced as 'click bait' but having read it, I tend to disagree. I don't think it fits neatly into any other thread, so I've given it its own.
https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...damaging-outmoded-time-to-stop-tall-buildings (*note article is not new but from summer last year)
First a couple of points from the article.
"Writing in this month’s issue of the architecture magazine Domus, he points out that a typical skyscraper will have at least double the carbon footprint of a 10-storey building of the same floor area."
Also
"Snelson also mentions “in-use” energy consumption and carbon emissions – what is needed to cool and heat and run lifts, which he says are typically 20% more for tall than medium-height buildings."
The Snelson references are back to a different article, from Domus.
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For my part, the arguments made here are some I have expressed in the past.
While I'm certainly not anti-skyscraper, I've been concerned that height above a certain level drives costs, and therefore contributes to a crisis of affordability.
We all recognize the need for more mid-rise, and 'missing middle'...........but perhaps we also need to re-examine the role of excessive height with the same vigour that we apply to excessive restrictions on height.
https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...damaging-outmoded-time-to-stop-tall-buildings (*note article is not new but from summer last year)
First a couple of points from the article.
"Writing in this month’s issue of the architecture magazine Domus, he points out that a typical skyscraper will have at least double the carbon footprint of a 10-storey building of the same floor area."
Also
"Snelson also mentions “in-use” energy consumption and carbon emissions – what is needed to cool and heat and run lifts, which he says are typically 20% more for tall than medium-height buildings."
The Snelson references are back to a different article, from Domus.
*****
For my part, the arguments made here are some I have expressed in the past.
While I'm certainly not anti-skyscraper, I've been concerned that height above a certain level drives costs, and therefore contributes to a crisis of affordability.
We all recognize the need for more mid-rise, and 'missing middle'...........but perhaps we also need to re-examine the role of excessive height with the same vigour that we apply to excessive restrictions on height.