Re: Re: who are the National Conservation and Heritage Group

tommyt: Couldn’t agree more, but there are two separate arguments here.
(1) High-rise qua high-rise: neither good nor bad, depending on location, context and design. There can be high-rise clusters if they can be ‘justified’ (by whom?). Isolated high-rise more problematic (see (2)).
(2) High structures as points of reference or ‘punctuation marks’. Contemporary architects and planners have lost any notion of ‘towers, spires and pinnacles’ which would draw attention to a building or an area. Just to be controversial (not like me): the last great stylistic movement was art-deco which was truly ‘modern’ in a way that few modern styles are. Modernism is just one
-ism among many, not the end of architecture, Where are the designers of the civic towers, elegant spires (no, not The Spire) and playful pinnacles? ‘Gey few, and they’re a’ deid’ as we say in Scotland.