New York City has over 6000 tall buildings and most of the skyscrapers built over the last 75 years were made of glass…
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Glass skyscrapers have become a dominant feature in urban landscapes, symbolizing power and modernity. They offer numerous benefits, such as energy efficiency and natural light, and have contributed to the sustainability of cities. However, they also pose challenges, such as bird collisions and energy consumption. Architects and designers continue to innovate in creating new and improved glass skyscrapers to address these challenges and enhance the urban experience.
Conclusion
Glass skyscrapers have significantly influenced the urban landscape, providing both benefits and challenges. Continued innovation in design and technology is essential to address these challenges and ensure the sustainability and functionality of these iconic structures.
FAQs
- Q: What are the benefits of glass skyscrapers?
- A: Glass skyscrapers offer energy efficiency, natural light, and a modern aesthetic.
- Q: What challenges do glass skyscrapers pose?
- A: Glass skyscrapers can contribute to bird collisions and energy consumption.
- Q: How are architects and designers addressing these challenges?
- A: Architects and designers are innovating in creating new and improved glass skyscrapers to mitigate these challenges.
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Modern architecture when it first came out with its stark simplicity and "rule-breaking" used to stand out as unusual and eye-catching. Now its just simply ugly cheap-looking and everywhere.
Architects are the biggest morons in the world, as in profession that attracts morons. I can believe we still let them exist after all the crap they have done in the world. Everywhere you look there is a monument to their stupidity.
Wood skyscrappers is silly and laughable. Especially under "green" reasoning.
Yeah, let's cut millions of trees to bulid buildings for the sake of "green" agenda.
One more empty investment building, where nobody would live or work.
Why not ivory, fur or leather skyscrappers ?
They really didnโt think about the placement of some of them. The shard is the one that kills me. Placed right over a terminal London train station. A giant sun reflector which does blind train drivers heading into the station.
Itโs not like itโs only at certain angles. Itโs a straight run towards the shard.
I do like the light show they do at the top of it in the night every now and then.
Skyscrapers need to get back to windows not these towering slabs of glass back in the day New York and Chicago had buildings that looked like scuptures.
New York, a city built by great men, being destroyed by stupid and weak men.
what if it was properly utilized
The first tower of glass curtain was the Ministry of Culture of Brazil , now Edifรญcio Gustavo Capanema, at Rio de Janeiro in 1943 by Oscar Niemeyer. Actually the architect that designed the UNO too.
The classic Art Deco skyscrapers of NYC and Chicago are still much better!
This new gen has lost their minds on regulation. Why dont ya just build underground if you are so afraid the sky is falling.. Until ya start getting into how that affects the earth or your fragile psyche..
This reminds me of a prototype made back in the 1990s or early 2000s it was called the sunflower I believe, it was a gigantic device on the top of a building that looked like a sunflower that captured sunlight and conducted through optic fiber to every room in the building to use during the day instead of electricity. It couldn't be implemented because it was too expensive due to the optic fiber.
if you wanna use glass, this is the way, and with the internet and mobile tech industry optic fiber has going down in price a lot.
this is why architects cannot be allowed to make decisions about anything, they are just not smart enough, all they care is about "the rays of light that come through the windows" they don't care about functionality and utility for people, only about their "light" sculptures.
PS: why the f English is so weird that has the same word to describe sun rays and low weight?
I LOVE GLASS SKYSCRAPERS PERIOD… NO REMORSE!
I think we need to move towards using concrete more. Brutalism and bauhaus is so underrated!
The most sustainable way to build is to use buildings that already exist. Stop building new buildings.
All of these glass buildings are so boring and ugly. And lazy design. And theyโre bad for climate change and birds fly into them and die. I hate them.
One thing that was mentioned in the video was the increase in wood in buildings, but I see a problem with this. If we use more wood then that means we have to cut down more trees. How is that being more green? ๐ค It would be interesting if they could make the glass with a transitional coating, like you can get on glasses.
HEY CHEDDAR … why not just start calling yourself the anti progress or modern life channel?
Man i hate glass skyscrapers few are fine but to many looks depressing i like the concrete or stone style buildings it has elegance witch glass canโt ever have
1:56 petition to ban Americans from pronouncing British place names.
The "Walkie Scorchie" pun really doesn't work in an American accent
I couldn't live without aircon in the summer here in Australia
I see like three shooting up over Boston every day and hate them already
Skyscrapers are only beautiful so long as you haven't looked at classical architecture from around the world.
Has anyone ever mentioned maybe placing solar strips on the glass? Is there an affordable and practical model?
They now make transparent solar panel units. This is going to be the new retrofit. These skyscrapers will be creating energy, and guzzling only some of it.
Wooden skyscrapers ๐คฆ what could go wrong ….
Towers exist firstly because valuable lots were small in the early days. And then came the regulators. Today they exist because of a combination of social engineering (legal restrictions) and ossified expectations. ("Normality" of a kind has become established, and now people have a habit to follow.)
It would make more sense to connect up all the existing towers, and make the resulting "megastructure" more "horizontal".
For new developments (given the availability of suitable tracts of land for this – but this is no more land than is needed to sprawl out a new suburb's worth of paving over the Earth) it would make more sense to build one very long, quite tall building down the middle of a wide future green belt. (Perhaps because of the scale of that, it would be necessary to have a fairly basic core plan that different developers could add their own character to – so in effect, many interconnected "skyscrapers".)
Do this right, and you could have near inner city population densities (so proximity to amenities made possible), with pretty much suburban amounts of green space (especially since you'd have to pave so much less over.)
Even the demand for more "attractive" buildings could be met. ("Beautiful" is not something that exists; it's something we somehow to form a temporary social contract to attribute to certain properties of things. That's why what's "beautiful" keeps changing all the time – because we can actually just invent it as required. And whatever we end up herding toward "succeeds".)
What you could do is simply deliberately "stick on" features – like "tower extensions" that look comfortingly familiarly skyscrapery – or piazzas on ancient models that emerge from the sides of the building in some place. The principle here could be: Function Follows Form maybe? The principal objective with the stuff you stick on is to create little bits of environment with a good chance of being voted beautiful by people (so mainly relying on what's already familiar – facades thereof). If you went crazy you could stick a Coloseum onto one of the far ends of The Building, even.
To envision this, think of keeping just a "middle line of the best" Manhattan skyscrapers. Now connect them up with skyscraper sections in the gaps in between. And bring everyone up to nearly the highest level. Carry off everything else with skyhooks to become the central features of a thousand smaller cities. And break up the paving. Put the greatest parking garages ever seen across the river on each end of the island. So now you'd have some kind of skyline (not quite like having a mountain range around, but also not ugly), and the lucky buggers still in occupation of tower space would have rural levels of green space to enjoy. (And to make up for all the people losing their homes this way, just keep extending this line of high structure to the other banks and beyond).
Once you've got your long line through all the Green established, you could even think up ways of making it pretty.
Build extensions whose main job is just to look pretty.
(I use this idea just because Manhattan has a skyline you can just look at. No need to imagine too much. It would be a lousy idea to actually relocate most of Manhattan, because a lot of people living there want it just the way it is, for starters.)
Cheddar has taken 2021 by storm
Happy there arenโt any skyscrapers in my city, either brick or concreteโฆ
Glass can be energy efficient if its uv protected and double/triple pane.
You could replace roughly every second glass element with a solar panel. That would not only look very cool, it would also produce energy and thus of course prevent the buildings from heating up so extremely
In fact, the entire global CO2 content consists very little of cars and air traffic. Mainly it consists of agriculture and also e.g. Concrete. Concrete is a huge CO2 eater, just during production, because it has to be produced at over 2000 ยฐ and because there is also a permanent CO2 deadline, you just have to look at Biosphere 2, they got the oxygen deficiency back then because they have installed too much concrete in their biosphere.
New wooden skyscraper. Isn't there a little problem with something called fire?
The main thing is a building full of glass, even if it looks nice, but air-conditioning inside, which of course is absolutely catastrophic for the environment
I liked the hand gestures in front of the little model. I've never seen that in 20 years of designing buildings.
There's an attractive looking wooden skyscraper in Norway and a plan for a 350ft one in Japan. I personally like glass buildings because they can easily blend in to their surroundings if the panes are tinted in the right way as they just reflect what's around them. I live in a historic city and a lot of new builds are covered in glass cladding, they're really unpopular with locals but they get my vote.
8:12 Sounds like you just need thin films on the glass instead of a ban.
You can modify the thermal and optical properties of glass 7 ways to Sunday with films and chemical treatments. Just look at transition lenses. They go from clear to black based on sunlight