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Wasteful, damaging and outmoded: is it time to stop building skyscrapers?

July 29, 2020 by Editorial Team

Tall buildings are still deemed desirable, even glamorous, but experts are drawing attention to the high environmental cost of building them

Categories Design, Green, Real Estate Tags architecture, Art and design, Article, building homes, Carbon Footprint, construction, Critics, Culture, environmentally sustainable., Features, London tower, Observer New Review, residential tower, Rowan Moore, skyscraper, skyscraper construction, skyscraper design, skyscrapers, tall buildings, The New Review, The Observer, tower, towers buiding

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