@WilCon: Everything must be built for function ONLY! Designing things in different colors serves no purpose and only serves to waste ink and paint! The Fun Sherrif has SPOKEN!

I'm glad you don't run things, think outside the box... sometimes we do things because we can.

DustyButt

@WilCon: I doubt you'll get to see their proforma but it sounds like it's loaded with incentive subsidies to defray hard costs so the returns of the project are likely high given the lack of class a office space in Nyhavn.

SeattleTed

@shorty63136: Yes definitely, but we stopped being innovative after that. But who knows, maybe the energy crisis will change this. Most of the energy that is lost/wasted, if because of poorly constructed buildings.

ILikeMacsWhatAboutIT

My question is this. For the exorbitant cost of this what does it offer in return? Does it improve business, generate power to help offset the carbon footprint of the building, or is it just an aesthetic? Seems impractical, expensive and a complete waste. Not too mention an extremely dangerous walkway.

WilCon

@ILikeMacsWhatAboutIT: You should see the History Channel's documentary on the City of New York and how the make up of the land (sub-terranian, mostly) makes NYC what it is today - both above and below ground. Lots of modern (for the time) architecture was pioneered in NYC.

Very interesting, really.

shorty63136

@Serolf Divad: Ha! Perhaps, given our inevitably Matrix-like future: Collosus Re-loades?

Stem_Sell

"I can't help but to feel like the US isn't exactly pioneering the new era of remarkable architecture."

Were we EVER a pioneer in architecture? I always thought that the same lack of innovation that killed our auto industry also existed in our architecture.

ILikeMacsWhatAboutIT

One step closer to the collosus of Rhodes.

Serolf Divad

The chances of getting someone like myself who is afraid of heights to walk that bridge without the use of a gun are pretty slim. I will catch a cab and face city traffic before I get on that walkway.

Curves

@WilCon: Well, we are currently discussing their building for one, so it definitely fills a marketing purpose. It will probably also draw some tourism to the area. All the attention will probably draw some pretty large tenants, making the space easier to lease for possibly higher rent. Your argument forgets that aesthetics is one of the functions of a building.

Gann

@shorty63136: No mention of Chicago?

Gann

@ILikeMacsWhatAboutIT: Frank Lloyd Wright?

korybing

Okay that is kind of cool, i had no idead they were building that kind of awesomeness in my capital.

And then a little correction to the author: It is Langelinie and not Langenlinine.

treelz

Why not a few walkways? What is so important on the 60-something floor that a walkway has to be there?

KassiaHaoe

@Gann: This particular documentary went all the way back to the initial settlement of the land - before it became NYC.

Chicago has some amaaaaazing architecture, no doubt. This documentary just didn't touch on it. If you could cross the messy geological/construction logistics and architecture, that's kinda what the documentary hit on.

Chicago's badass though. :)

shorty63136

I really don't hope that they're gonnna build that it looks god damn ugly... 65m thats like 22 stories... and i don't think that there are buildings taller than 10-15 stories... it's gonna stick out...
And why would I walk 65m up stairs to cross a bridge?

jak0b

who wants to cannonball off the walkway into the pool on the yacht?

mrtallbones

@Curves: How about traveling the bridge while tied to a wheelchair?

LoringGalung

I still want to walk over the grand cayon in that new park thing walkway.

Lupison

@Curves: You, sir, must be a stranger to city traffic.

Lodlaiden

They should totally make the floors see-through

ArmyCats

@ILikeMacsWhatAboutIT: I think my main point is that for being "the only superpower in the world," in the architectural field, we're not #1. We have the some of the most brilliant minds in the field, but because of old ways of thinking we never became a "superpower" when it came to architecture, Spain, Dubai, these places are more highly advanced than we ever were.

ILikeMacsWhatAboutIT

@jak0b: Why should you have to walk DOWN 65m of stairs just to get to the other building =P

TheLostVikings

@ArmyCats: Damn i was thinking the same thing; theres this building I was at somewhere that is just like that but its not a bridge just another part of the building has floors above it and everything its just that the middle its open wide to the ground and the first floor of the open part is glass, steel and concrete. It scares the s**t out of people who are there for the first time. but now they've covered the floor with carpet all over the place.

utube2007

@LoringGalung: OK yes, that would work too. Thanks for the suggestion.

@Lodlaiden: Yes, Ma'am, I am. If I see more than 5 or 6 cars on my current commute, I rage against urban sprawl.

Curves

what's wrong with all those danes lately in architecture? I think I remember seeing another completely disjointed Kopenhagen building somehwere (was it here?). Time to move to Kopenhagen I'd say, those folks really know how to make a difference. On the other hand: scratch that, as far as I know, Danmark is bloody expensive...

yogibimbi

@Curves: why you would need to hold a gun to walk over a bridge you are otherwise too afraid of crossing, is completely beyond me...

yogibimbi

@ILikeMacsWhatAboutIT: Maybe because we realized how pointless extravagant architecture is...

buckeye17

@NYJATT911:

ummmmm you do know that the SKYSCRAPER is an AMERICAN contribution to architecture?

pevans34

@shorty63136:

Except that most of the buildings like Grand Central, the Lib. oops even Central Park were British Designs.
Hang on, even the American national anthem was written by a Brit.

NYJATT911

Personally, I think it looks quite horribly ugly.

I don't find the recent spate of chopped-up or shattered glass box designs any more appealing than the now-dull-looking plain glass boxes of the International style.

Isildur

As a downtown Chicago resident, I'm proud of our tallest continuous concrete pour, haha. Just wait until we have the Chicago Spire (aka Corkscrew of God), then our skyline can look as screwed up as any Arab Emirate.

k3davis

@yogibimbi: The gun is there to motivate *him*.

English = first language.

Daveinva

"Were we EVER a pioneer in architecture?"

Right. Awake much?

Daveinva

geez.. Is that really the best the designers could come up with. *facepalms* we (Danes) like to reprecent styish scadinavian design.. but that design aint pretty..

D_Zarster

@Daveinva: "Engrich"

Curves

When you say US architecture is not innovative, do you mean when looking at the buildings that get built, or by the ones that get proposed? Innovative buildings are proposed in the US all the time, but economy and the fast that we don't have slave workers get in the way.

Also, many of the "crazy" and innovative architure in Dubai and other parts of the world is designed and engineered by American architects and engineers. It is just that the oil rich nations have alot of extra coin to actually spend money on building with very un-economical architecture. Do you know how much extra it costs to build the same square footage in a tower at a 30 degree angle versus one that goes straight up?

PeterNincompoop