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Chrysler building (completed in 1930) and clean lines of Ludwig Mies van
der Rohe’s Modernist Seagram Building (1958) in New York; to London’s
so-called Gherkin (2003), Cheesegrater (2014), and Walkie Talkie (2015);
and Beijing’s CCTV Tower (2008), described by its Dutch architects OMA
as a “three-dimensional cranked loop.”
Today, the lower height limit of a skyscraper is considered to be 150m,
with China boasting six of the top 10 cities worldwide with the highest number
of skyscrapers, and Dubai the highest number of “supertalls”—buildings
above 300m. How we use skyscrapers has also dramatically evolved.
Once built mainly as offices, skyscrapers are now vertical hubs of all
kinds of activity. We traverse these towers with as much ease as the horizontal
streets below them, whether that’s soaring up to a rooftop bar—Ozone on

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