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They don't build structures like they used to anymore. I feel like the Asian Countries are trying to advance advance ADVANCE, competing with the US. They're also less likely to use up (sprawl up) as much space as the US, so high rises are their specialty in general.
Anyway, I have no idea where I'm going with this- But my answer is NO!
I say very unlikely. Every other place in the world that wants to prove its sucessfulness wants to build the tallest. We no longer have the will or feel the need to do that. There are some cities in the east that are very sprawled, low lying cities but have some supertalls to try to show some power. There are also some cities/countries in this world that are geographically small/confined, but are tax havens for certain types of businesses. There will always be a high demand to build alot on these tight spaces.
Oh yea... also even in the U.S.... among anti-sprawl urbanites the trend isn't a desire to build up extremely high. I think more people spend time thinking about lifestyles at the street level and are more concerned with the first 5 stories regardless of the height of a building.
how about we realize that america doesn't need to be in a pissing contest with these other countries that only copy what we do anyway. like another poster said, these other nations must feel that they have something to prove. america has nothing to prove. so let's just be graceful about it and continue building sensible skyscrapers
Tallest building contests are for developing nations, like China and United Arab Emirates. Rich, established countries don't need the ego boost, and aren't going to waste the money.
The thing is that supertalls generally make no financial sense. They are generally only built when there's a non-economic motivation.
The United States has been there and done that. The fascination with such was a late-19th Century/early-20th century phenomenon.
Who cares now? Obviously the developing nations do because they have something to prove.
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It's interesting to me that this thread came up as my home city, San Jose, is home to no sky scrapers. Yes, this is partly because SJ's downtown is in a flight path. However, it's partly because SJ doesn't seem to need sky scrapers.
Most of the newer commercial buildings outside of downtown SJ are no more than several stories high.
Most of the newer apartment buildings outside of downtown SJ are about 5-10 stories high, with the tallest in downtown being about 15 stories high.
IMO, these 5-15 story apartment buildings signify the future not only of SJ but of most moderate-sized cities that have already sprawled and are now going to grow upward. I'm thinking of other cities in CA, TX and perhaps WA.
If you look at some of the older, more dense cities of the Mediterranean and Europe, you see buildings that are no taller that about 5 stories high. Why? Because that's all they need.
Point to hong kong on that one. But thats so true though. That and extremely cheap labor. In new york a tower won't get built just because it blocks some rich nimby's view of central park
And in San FranNimby, it's the royalty on the hills who decides what gets built, how tall, and it had better not impede their views of the Bay, or they'll enlist some terrorist to chop off 1 or 2000 feet of it!
Nimbyapolis (Minneapolis) is another place off-limits.
Houston! Now there we go! Just the amount of ego to do it!
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