The foundations are already being laid for other super towers around the globe.
Private developers are behind some of the Chinese super-towers, but quasi-governmental or state-run entities are the builder-operators of many of the tallest structures, and Shanghai Tower is no exception.
(As all those super-towers go up in Shanghai and Beijing, though, this may change again. Rem Koolhaas is now being delirious in Beijing).
In the 1920s Le Corbusier wanted to raze the traditional city and erect in its place "vertical garden cities" composed of high-density super-towers surrounded by parks and highways.
This allowed the F.A.A.'s main traffic center in Virginia to function as a kind of super control tower to coordinate operations hour-by-hour with the airlines and help regional radar centers integrate traffic throughout the nation's air space.
Mr. Baker said that with the current state of technology, another super-tall tower could be erected in a relatively short time, perhaps just a couple of years.
In answer to concern voiced by personnel about the future of the Super-Tall Tower project, the Company assures them that everything is fine.
(Fortune had told me that, prestige aside, the super-tall tower jobs are basically loss leaders for the elevator companies: "Very few high-rise jobs are money makers. You give 'em away for the maintenance contract").
By Garrison Keillor The New Yorker, August 28 , 1971P. 25 In answer to concern voiced by personnel about the future of the Super-Tall Tower project, the Company assures them that everything is fine.
It is supported by a robust budget that pays for promotional ads for itself, operates out of a super-expensive tower in Rosslyn, Virginia, and is bankrolled by a multimillionaire banking and media mogul.
