<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The magic ‘vertical’ has always been a spiritually distinctive preoccupation of architecture throughout history. The paper intends to examine, from a series of perspectives, if the high-rise in principle is a good thing. The focus is on urban design implications, however engineering challenges and their design solutions are inseparable aspects of the problematic. It is also to further demystify some ideologies still attached to their widespread application. It concludes that there is a new awareness evolving about high-rise design that is superior to previous approaches.</p></abstract>

The magic ‘vertical’ has always been a spiritually distinctive preoccupation of architecture throughout history. The paper intends to examine, from a series of perspectives, if the high-rise in principle is a good thing. The focus is on urban design implications, however engineering challenges and their design solutions are inseparable aspects of the problematic. It is also to further demystify some ideologies still attached to their widespread application. It concludes that there is a new awareness evolving about high-rise design that is superior to previous approaches.

Justification for ‘Scrapping the Sky’ A Comprehensive International Review of Skyscrapers/High-Rise Buildings from an Urban Design Perspective

Institute of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering

YBL Journal of Built Environment

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The magic ‘vertical’ has always been a spiritually distinctive preoccupation of architecture throughout history. The paper intends to examine, from a series of...

Justification for ‘Scrapping the Sky’ A Comprehensive International Review of Skyscrapers/High-Rise Buildings from an Urban Design Perspective

Published Online: Dec 17, 2019

Page range: 48 - 72

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jbe-2019-0004

Keywords
changing high-rise definitions, historic height contest, symbolic messages, technical challenges, urban design ideologies and myths, density and form fundamentals, high-rise typology, vertical eco-architecture

© 2019 Tamas Lukovich, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Justification for ‘Scrapping the Sky’ A Comprehensive International Review of Skyscrapers/High-Rise Buildings from an Urban Design Perspective

Published Online: Dec 17, 2019

Page range: 48 - 72

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jbe-2019-0004

Keywordschanging high-rise definitions, historic height contest, symbolic messages, technical challenges, urban design ideologies and myths, density and form fundamentals, high-rise typology, vertical eco-architecture

© 2019 Tamas Lukovich, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
changing high-rise definitions, historic height contest, symbolic messages, technical challenges, urban design ideologies and myths, density and form fundamentals, high-rise typology, vertical eco-architecture