{"id":467,"date":"2012-08-04T06:03:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T06:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=467"},"modified":"2012-08-04T06:07:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-04T06:07:01","slug":"skyscrapers-uplift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2012\/08\/skyscrapers-uplift\/","title":{"rendered":"Today’s Skyscrapers Uplift Humanity – Post by G. Stolyarov II"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\"The<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
G. Stolyarov II
\n<\/big><\/big><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
August 4, 2012<\/span>
\n<\/big><\/div>\n
Recommend this page<\/a>.<\/strong><\/div>\n
******************************<\/div>\n

I was asked the following recently, with regard to whether our era continues to produce architectural accomplishments of a refined, uplifting, and glorious character: \u201cBut do we have anything that really compares to Chartres Cathedral?\u201d<\/p>\n

While the Chartres Cathedral<\/a> is undoubtedly a creation of great beauty and impeccable skill, I think that the Burj Khalifa<\/a> and The Shard<\/a> are, in fact, more impressive \u2013 and far more functional and directly relevant to the improvement of human life. As Howard Roark put it in Ayn Rand\u2019s The Fountainhead <\/em>with respect to the emergence of great skyscrapers, <\/em>\u201cMankind will never destroy itself… Nor should it think of itself as destroyed. Not so long as it does things such as this.” It always exhilarates me to read of new height records broken by skyscrapers in our time \u2013 and to see the new structures depart in increasingly creative ways from the \u201cglass box\u201d paradigm. As long as this<\/em> kind of innovation keeps taking place, there is hope for our civilization.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
The Shard, London Bridge: Photo by Bjmullan, Originally found here<\/a>.
Shared pursuant to Creative Commons License.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

G. Stolyarov II August 4, 2012 Recommend this page. ****************************** I was asked the following recently, with regard to whether our era continues to produce architectural accomplishments of a refined, uplifting, and glorious character: \u201cBut do we have anything that really compares to Chartres Cathedral?\u201d While the Chartres Cathedral is undoubtedly a creation of great beauty and impeccable skill, I think that the Burj Khalifa and The Shard are, in fact, more impressive \u2013 and far more functional and directly…<\/p>\n

Read More Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,356],"tags":[1150,42,1154,1153,1152,1151,115,1155,40,1159,1157,116,95,1149,1158,1156],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-technology-2","tag-architecture","tag-ayn-rand","tag-burj-dubai","tag-burj-khalifa","tag-chartres-cathedral","tag-construction","tag-creation","tag-dubai","tag-g-stolyarov-ii","tag-glass-box","tag-howard-roark","tag-innovation","tag-progress","tag-skyscrapers","tag-the-fountainhead","tag-the-shard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}