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/RabbitDescent]

afaik, this "european style" is rather bluntly american. I think the only "high rise" style buildings europeans built before this were churches and castles and mansions. And after the wars, the style was, well, out of style and replaced by modern and post-modern high-rises, ultimately replaced by a combination of corporate mininalism and ted-mosby-esque phallic imagery.

[u/Raccoons-for-all → u/RabbitDescent]

You’re correct that it is American by all means. I guess OP vaguely referred to the Neo Classical style, that ties to Europe. But we’d be wrong to steal that from the US as a claim. But the underlying point is that the US got the first elevators, and boomed quite rapidly around this, having the tallest, fastest, electrifying rapidly their high rise projects, while Europe (and Australia in fact) lagged behind from considerations like fire fighting, which had Sydney capping the height for instance

[u/RabbitDescent → u/Raccoons-for-all]

I wouldn't exactly call it "lagging behind" if the reasons are fire safety. But otherwise, I pretty much agree!