“We Are the Better West”:German Architecture Critic on Dubai’s New Tower of Babel
The other night I encountered a stupendous, if somewhat Chicken-Little-esque, review by Hanno Rauterberg in Die Zeit about the Burj Khalifa, the world’s new tallest building. Of interest here is the kind of recognition of the foot-dragging of Western democracies in producing such feats, and the sense of the global future tacking to the East. And the fact that the review stems from a German critic who sees echoes of the Weimar period utopianism in […]
