Tewder
Senior Member
There is definitely more innovation and ambition in the US with respect to skyscrapers, in NYC and Chicago at least.
|
|
|
What can we learn about architecture from our American counterparts?
I am in New York and I haven't noticed that the stuff here is any better than what's in Toronto.
There is definitely more innovation and ambition in the US with respect to skyscrapers, in NYC and Chicago at least.
I don't know that our cities are any more innovative, simply that whatever innovations occurred in New York and Chicago also occurred here, simply scaled back as one would expect in smaller cities.
I would argue that on a building by building basis we did far better than New York.
Setbacks are an amusing anachronism and are not relevant to modern skyscraper development. Nor did they stimulate, ipso facto, superior architecture.
I think you are confusing quantity with quality.
I admit to being a Miesian in regards to architecture: "I don't want to be new, I want to be good." We are probably the most Miesian city in North America both in terms of the style he helped create and our adherence to it.