Skyscrapers are first and foremost a space saving measure in places where you have to cram plenty of office space into a downtown location in order to accommodate all the people who are going to work there.
The notion that a skyscraper is a sign of development and affluence comes from places that have no space.
Sweden doesn’t need skyscrapers for two reasons:
- we actually have space in our cities.
- many operations are shifted to small towns because in this day and age, there is no need to confine everyone physically to a big city location, and then pay crazy rents.
When you live in Sweden, you notice that all your bills come from obscure little towns, not from Stockholm.
The car registration people are in a place that looks like this:
The electricity bill was processed in a place like this:
And that makes it possible for the capital to look like this:
Why put a skyscraper in there?
There are some high buildings here, but if you’ve been to Shanghai or Hong Kong, they look pretty quaint. Here some examples:
Or we get some of these well-meant 1960s monstrosities as shown in the background here that everybody wishes would just go away over night, because they look like some giant left the cardboard boxes out by the curb:
So, there is that, too: People don’t like high, modern buildings here. They take away the sky, and today’s pride of modern technology may well turn out to be tomorrow’s embarrassing face palm feature.
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