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The "fetish" of mega tall buildings
Dubai has just started construction on what will be the tallest man made structure when it is completed in 2020, a notch above the 828 metres of the Burj Khalifa nearby, up to now the tallest skyscraper. Anna Winston, from the art and architecture journal, Dezeen, tells the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s Roger Hearing why constructing these mega tall buildings amounts to a form of fetishism.
(Image: A general view of the Burj Khalifa. Credit: Getty Images)
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