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What the Council on Vertical Urbanism Actually Decides
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat spent 56 years cataloguing height records — then renamed itself the Council on Vertical Urbanism. Daniel looked up Jerusalem's Marom Tower on its Skyscraper Center database and found a much stranger story underneath: an organisation founded in 1969 by an engineer worried about livability, not records, now handing out trophies that developers put on brochures. Can a body that both chronicles tall buildings and rewards them stay neutral? And does its new "responsible density" language hold up against the tower rising next to Yitzhak Navon station?…
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