Tall Building in Historic Centers

TALL BUILDINGS Each of the precedents shown exhibits a particular interaction with history. We have grouped precedentsinto three categories in order to better examine these relationships. The Scraping Neighborhood category encompasses tall buildings that address their larger surrounding context in some way, including proximity to history as well as fenestration and structural expression. Scraping Neighbor includes tall buildings that exhibit a direct relationship with their context and may physically interact with an existing building. Tall buildings categorized as Scraping Infrastructure interact with transportation systems or other historic urban infrastructural conditions. These precedents exemplify built examples of diverse reactions to historical conditions while still addressing the realities of modernity.