Why are landmarks so important to cities? They create a sense of identity and symbolize to citizens and visitors a city’s history and values. Skyscrapers frequently celebrate a city’s successful times or new advances in technology. Today’s urban city planning creates future beacons for cities which convey the new messages of sustainability, green choices and living responsibly. From aerodynamically designed glass towers to updating old landmarks with green solutions to designing state-of-the-art transportation halls and tunnels, city development can display all the advances in technology and thinking in landmarks.
The number of skyscrapers built in China in recent years is mind-boggling. Equally amazing is the wide variety of designs that architects are using to distinguish each structure. One way to understand all of these new buildings is to describe them with one, distinguishing word. Here’s a start.
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