Pop Tops
August, 1985
because a skyline is a terrible thing to wasteBuildings used to be designed from the ground up, which made not only excellent engineering sense but aesthetic sense as well--after all, architects wanted their buildings to be appreciated by pedestrians passing by on the sidewalks. Sure, there were edifices. Sure, there were flourishes of cornice and column. But the real art was at street level. These days, architects seem to think about the tops of their buildings more than anything else. Philip J...
