The Future Of Tall Buildings

"[In] their audacious pursuit of astonishing height -- to glorify a god, immortalize a builder, mark a spot or lure a tenant -- architects have created pyramids, domes, minarets, campaniles, spires and skyscrapers. But at the World Trade Center, they inadvertently created something else. Targets. Suddenly, height equals vulnerability. Engineers have a new potential calamity against which to design. And that will change the structural, financial and symbolic equation behind supertall buildings, though it may not doom the species." This article includes comments from William J. Mitchell, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at M.I.T., A. Eugene Kohn of Kohn Pedersen Fox, the designers of the Shanghai World Financial Center, and Guy F. Tozzoli, who supervised the planning and building of the trade center in the 1960's and 70's."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan