Slosh Tanks Arise
The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/02/t-magazine/significant-postwar-architecture.html
Grateful there are no supertalls, NYC's seven of the monstrosities, a few more in the oven, pretty well ends the narcissistic myth of its global design leadership in high-rises, at least in architecture although its banks still finance the tax dodges worldwide.
Frank Lloyd Wright's mockery of high piles with his mile-high tower would have to be doubled or more to ridicule the current steroidal over-reach, and it would be delightful to gander his eye-pockery about CAD-wrought warps and woofings. Which raises the prospect of this list being a spoof of celebratory lists from top 100s to 10s to Number Ones to Pritzkers and Premiums and Gold Medals and World Monuments and Blue Origins and SpaceXes.
There are some choicy winners on the list, indeed a healthy range to capture the support of whatever disposition roils the innards of fans of various coloratas, and that must be complimented against the usually far too narrow selections proffered.
Omitting Philip Johnson from the Seagram's credit is astute for he is among the few who readily admitted to having no talent only wealth and social connections -- and for underwriting a gang of post modernists and anti-socialists eager to kow-tow for highest of risers hoping to dense-pack cities, precursing the supertallism as if "density is no sin."
Tune mass dampers and slosh tanks are the pinnacles' secret sauce for stabilizing the way too talls, and serving as metaphors for what is burbling in designers' swollen noggins. Cheers!