SKYSCRAPER WARS!

I really got into the whole architecture thing because of skyscrapers. In fact i still dream about them. There was this exhibit at the HK-SZ archi biennale that really got me excited because, finally! someone was making a statement about the way chinese cities were looking at each other and saying, hey i'm bigger! i've got more! they're longer!or in as many ways as you can continue the phallic references.


White team: Citic Plaza, GZ + Taipei 101, TP
Black team: Oriental Pearl, SH + Guangzhou TV Tower, GZ

Now mind you, i've been doing this since i was in primary school, and i lived through the first skyscraper wars in the far east: that of Singapore and Hong Kong's in the 80s - 90s (yea singapore had her day in the spotlight before).



OUB Plaza actually drew first blood and was the world's tallest skyscraper outside of America for half a decade. Ah, the heroism of that age - the metabolist experiments and SPUR drawing to a close in Singapore, who were, Rem Koolhas calls it, "in over 3000 years, architecture's first non white avant gardes". Architecture and the skyscraper project are now centered in the far east, but the epicenter has moved away from the city that once dared to dream.

Round 1:
Singapore 0 : Hong Kong 1