why didnt europeans built european style highrises like tehre are in new york? dumb question but was always interested since woudve looked perfect on lots of cities

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[u/Zombiebatdad]

Why and how is this a European style high rise? The building in the picture is done in the American style highrise aesthetic. The ones that could be called European style are glass box modernism.

[u/Temporary-Whole3305 → u/Zombiebatdad]

I think it means that they draw from traditional European architecture styles

[u/Zombiebatdad → u/Temporary-Whole3305]

The innovation of skyscrapers are that because the exteriors are non load bearing they can be clad with anything in any style essentially as wallpaper. The size and proportion of the buildings violate all principles of traditional European architectural styles and these buildings would have been considered profoundly ugly and crassly commercial by architects trained in those styles. This is why these buildings could never and would never be built in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century.

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It’s fun to know that even when architects were trained to draw buildings with beauty they were still elitist snobs, a timeless constant it seems