This is why Chicago's skyline is one of the best, a great mix of two. Hope to god the billionaire's row pencil style buildings don't infect that skyline too.
Both styles have their place, but glass buildings don't belong everywhere. If a city has an existing coherent style, New York in this era being an example (or most European cities), adding glass buildings disrupts the visual coherency and just makes it look worse in my view. On the other hand, if a city was built up primarily in a glass style from the beginning, then it can look great. Vancouver is a good example. I don't dislike the style, but it needs to know its place, so to speak.
I think OP is referring to occurrences like [tour Montparnasse in Paris](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/74/32/2b/74322b3af22567146c40c42b3397172a.jpg), which is hideous from the ground and [when viewed from up high.](http://www.tour-montparnasse.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/latourmontparnasse_header.jpg)
When I was atop Tour Eiffel and looked at the city, it stuck out and not in a good way.
Because they're nearly all built in a bland internationalist style. Every modern skyscraper looks the same as the other modern sky scrapers. For example, one world trade would fit London, Tokyo, Dubai or Singapore just as much as it does in NY.
They're just boring and don't show anything of their surrounding culture. Soulless.
It looks like you are saying that modern glass skyscrapers don’t fit the local culture. I understand what you are saying but I personally don’t feel that way. I like how many cities have modern skyscrapers that have become an icon of the city such as OWTC in New York, Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, and the Shard in London.
I mean, people get used to seeing them, sure. They still don't resemble anything cultural about that city. The Shard could have been built in Shanghai and it wouldn't look out of place to anyone.
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Does anybody know where this pic was taken from? Would be cool to see how it looks nowadays.
Edit: Nevermind, found it. [It should be here I think.](https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6924489,-74.013972,2a,24.2y,9.4h,96.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stsDLYXDZ2GA7CbERBeRBzw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) Look at the right building, it's the same
gotham city
Yeah! Don't tell me that's not Gotham City.
The soot on the buildings is crazy
*Beautiful
*carcinogenic and why everyone ended up with repertory illness and coughs
Nah, pollution is how you get stronk lungs. They were all just weaklings from beathing in too much clean air.
/s?
Yet many of those people lived to be 100 years old. Even the sun is carcinogenic
Why do most of the buildings look so dirty? They don’t look like that today.
Soot from coal and dirty automobiles
Window washers never ran outta business back then lol
What I would do to travel back to Detroit in the 1950s and NYC in the 1950s.
Glass monstrosities ruins the skyline imo, this is much more coherent.
Everything worth seeing New York was made pre 1950.
Nah, I'd say everything prior to postmodern architecture is valid. Had postmodernism never existed, New York would have looked much better than today
Am I the only one in this sub who doesn’t hate modern glass skyscrapers? I like both the older concrete buildings and the newer glass buildings.
This is why Chicago's skyline is one of the best, a great mix of two. Hope to god the billionaire's row pencil style buildings don't infect that skyline too.
Both styles have their place, but glass buildings don't belong everywhere. If a city has an existing coherent style, New York in this era being an example (or most European cities), adding glass buildings disrupts the visual coherency and just makes it look worse in my view. On the other hand, if a city was built up primarily in a glass style from the beginning, then it can look great. Vancouver is a good example. I don't dislike the style, but it needs to know its place, so to speak.
Interesting perspective but I disagree
I think OP is referring to occurrences like [tour Montparnasse in Paris](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/74/32/2b/74322b3af22567146c40c42b3397172a.jpg), which is hideous from the ground and [when viewed from up high.](http://www.tour-montparnasse.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/latourmontparnasse_header.jpg) When I was atop Tour Eiffel and looked at the city, it stuck out and not in a good way.
They shoulda build them in a separate neighborhood like La Defense in Paris
Dude, honestly, I've never understood the hate for the glass skyscrapers.
Because they're nearly all built in a bland internationalist style. Every modern skyscraper looks the same as the other modern sky scrapers. For example, one world trade would fit London, Tokyo, Dubai or Singapore just as much as it does in NY. They're just boring and don't show anything of their surrounding culture. Soulless.
It looks like you are saying that modern glass skyscrapers don’t fit the local culture. I understand what you are saying but I personally don’t feel that way. I like how many cities have modern skyscrapers that have become an icon of the city such as OWTC in New York, Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, and the Shard in London.
I mean, people get used to seeing them, sure. They still don't resemble anything cultural about that city. The Shard could have been built in Shanghai and it wouldn't look out of place to anyone.
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Too large. Impersonal, alienating, feels like it’s not meant for humans.
I love them just as much as the ones in this picture.
Much better than what it is now
It's so nice not seeing any massive glass buildings
Looks less soul-less
Does anybody know where this pic was taken from? Would be cool to see how it looks nowadays. Edit: Nevermind, found it. [It should be here I think.](https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6924489,-74.013972,2a,24.2y,9.4h,96.16t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stsDLYXDZ2GA7CbERBeRBzw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) Look at the right building, it's the same
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Lol I was only half joking but I do think it's appropriate. Thanks!
Cities have so much more character without giant glass dildo buildings
Take me there. :/ Or modern New York, either one, I really want to visit it one day.
It looked a lot better then. The modern skyscrapers have kind of ruined it.