Podcast: Barbarexit
A disaster has befallen the good ship CityMetric: our staff writer Barbara Speed, who has been with us since before…
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Build up or build out? How to tackle urban density
These days, we almost expect that any large-scale, big impact inner-city development will be a skyscraper. But for smaller cities…
ByThe first century of the skyscraper: a short history
From the legendary Tower of Babel to the iconic Burj Khalifa, humans have always aspired to build to ever greater…
ByWhy the dark world of J.G. Ballard's High-Rise is not so far from reality
The new film adaption of J G Ballard’s classic 1975 novel High-Rise has been a while coming. Much like the…
ByThis author/architect/space tourist has designed a skyscraper shaped like a cobra
Shanghai has its fair share of oddly-shaped skyscrapers. There’s the “Orient Pearl Tower“, also known as “that weird tower made…
ByShould the next mayor rethink London's attitude to tall buildings?
Up or Out? How is London going to grow? Many planned new towers have prompted a backlash from some wishing…
ByChina bans "weird" architecture in cities
It’s finally happened: China’s central government has realised that some of the wild and wonderful structures erected around the country…
By2015: The year we built more skyscrapers than ever before
As you’d expect, 2015 was another bumper year of skyscraper-building. Turns out the men who build buildings (and the handful…
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