*This piece isn't about a building, but about the sensibility of Gothic High Tech. In buildings, in photos, in movies... in Los Angeles, Dubai, Las Vegas and of course the poster-child, Detroit.
*I bet you're not seeing a lot of empty skyscrapers in Shanghai right now, even though they overbuilt in Pudong like crazy. There's a big Gothic High Tech in China all right, but it's all crumbling stuff built by Communists... haunted buildings where the busy consumers sidle by and shudder.
"To a remarkable degree, the metaphors and symbols of the built environment have been dominated in recent months by images of unneeded, sealed-off, ruined, forlorn or forsaken buildings and cityscapes. The Burj Dubai is just the latest – and biggest – in this string of monuments to architectural vacancy."
