"If you look at London, for instance, because there's so much public debate around these buildings, and because the public actually has a say, this can really make or break the development or planning of a certain project." "For some of those critics that recognize that has a lot of issues and these towers represent inequities that exist," he said. However, Al did acknowledge that the supertall skyscrapers should be critiqued and that public debate is probably the best mechanism for managing the tension surrounding them. Read: Seven super-skinny skyscrapers changing New York City's skyline "But if you just look at the aesthetics of the towers, you can really see that there's more diversity now than there was before," Al continued. "Should New York change that system?" he asked "That's a good question because it also has some benefits that it gives transparency to property owners and what they can build." In New York, Al is confident that regulations like Local Law 97, which penalizes buildings with high carbon emissions, and the re-cladding of older skyscrapers is contributing to changing building culture in the city.Ĭommenting on the recent superskinny skyscrapers in Manhattan, Al said that the right of use allows much of New York's skyline to be constructed without community input, making it different from many of the cities on the list. "There's more diversity now than there was before" "We're seeing a lot more diversity and I think that's probably a good thing for the skyline."
"It's not all just sleek glass towers anymore, right?" he continued. "Because we can keep our cities more compact, we can reduce the amount of land that we consume, we can spend more resources on relatively smaller units of land," he said. The diversity of designs currently being created can also positively contribute to cities, he said. Al believes that the intersection of changing zoning laws and ever-expanding populations make supertalls more likely and that they can potentially deal with growing populations.
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