Supertall Exhibit at the Skyscraper Museum

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Supertall Exhibit Opens at the Skyscraper Museum

Aug 2nd, 2011

The Skyscraper Museum in Battery Park City in New York City has opened a new exhibition called Supertall! It opened July 27 and runs through January 2012.

In conjunction with the exhibit, the museum is presenting a series of programs including panel discussions and gallery tours. Details on these are available through the museum’s website.

http://www.skyscraper.org/

http://skyscraper.org/EXHIBITIONS/SU...ith_Images.pdf

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Graphic from the pdf files...

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http://nymag.com/arts/architecture/r...review-2011-8/

Higher
At the Skyscraper Museum, a reminder of why we keep reaching for the clouds.



1. Empire State Building, New York; 2. Shanghai Tower, Shanghai, China; 3. Kingkey Finance Tower, Shenzhen, China; 4. Wuhan Greenland Center, Wuhan, China; 5. Kingdom Tower, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; 6. Kamal Mixed-Use Development, Doha, Qatar; 7. Busan Lotte World Tower, Busan, South Korea; 8. Lotte Super Tower, Seoul, South Korea; 9. World One, Mumbai, India; 10. Burj Khalifa, Dubai, U.A.E.; 11. Al Hamra Firdous Tower, Kuwait City, Kuwait; 12. The Pentominium, Dubai, U.A.E.; 13. Guangzhou International Finance Center, Guangzhou, China; 14. Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai, China; 15. One World Trade Center, New York


By Justin Davidson
Aug 14, 2011

The plan reads like a parody of hubris: Five years from now, a billion-dollar, glass-clad needle will rise a full kilometer, nearly 3,300 feet, into the sky above the Arabian shore at Jeddah. Kingdom Tower, stitching together the House of Saud and the reign of Heaven, will surpass by more than 50 stories the world-record-holder, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which is in turn 62 stories taller than the current No. 2 (Taipei 101). How quickly the fantastical becomes routine! Thanks to bravura technological leaps, majestic egos, and—even now—waterfalls of money, Frank Lloyd Wright’s vision of a mile-high tower is coming into view...

There are now 47 buildings (complete or under construction) that are taller than the Empire State, plus the newly ­announced Kingdom Tower. “Supertall!,” a burst of excited clarity in the tiny but ambitious Skyscraper Museum, makes the logic clear. Any one skyscraper may spring from vanity and bluster (generous vices that also bequeathed us the pyramids of Giza), but the urge for height is growing more intense, and it is pushing architects and builders to spellbinding levels of invention and, yes, beauty....

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What buildings are numbers 6 and 7?

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Originally Posted by SkyscrapersOfNewYork

What buildings are numbers 6 and 7?

6. Kamal Mixed-Use Development, Doha, Qatar; 7. Busan Lotte World Tower, Busan, South Korea;



Wall Street Journal

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...googlenews_wsj
Heights of Fancy

By JAMES GARDNER
August 16, 2011

Naturally the exhibition pays much attention to the Freedom Tower at Ground Zero. This structure, which was originally designed by Daniel Libeskind as a torqued tower in accordance with the reigning style known as deconstructivism, became far more orderly and symmetrical in the hands of David Childs of Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM). Although it remains controversial, the revision was clearly an improvement: There is something at once grand and reassuring about that newfound symmetry.

The show also includes such recent projects as Chicago's Trump International Hotel & Tower, also designed by SOM, which rises to 1,388 feet, as well as the late Frank Williams's Mercury City Tower in Moscow, which rises to 1,247 feet. But the star of the show and the regnant monarch of tall buildings is Dubai's Burj Khalifa (also by SOM). At 2,717 feet, it is nearly 1,000 feet taller than the Freedom Tower, which is slated to become the tallest building in this hemisphere.