Sky-High: A Critique of NYC’s Supertall Towers from Top to Bottom

Part architectural guidebook and part critique, Sky-High: A Critique of NYC’s Supertall Towers from Top to Bottom documents the pencil-thin, supertall towers that are transforming New York City’s skyline and streets. Join us for a virtual program on Tuesday, June 20 at 6pm ET with author Eric P. Nash and architectural photographer Bruce Katz on their handsome new book from Princeton Architectural Press.

Sky-High captures the city’s penchant for building skyward – from the Woolworth and Chrysler buildings of an early 20th-century race to the top to today’s super luxury aeries of Billionaires’ Row and the World Trade complex in Lower Manhattan. Nash and Katz focus on a new crop of “supertall” towers (commonly measured as at least 984’/300m above the sidewalk), including One World Trade Center, Three World Trade Center, 30 Hudson Yards, 35 Hudson Yards, One57, 432 Park Avenue, 53West53, Central Park Tower, and One Vanderbilt.

ERIC P. NASH is the author of several books about architecture and design, including Manhattan Skyscrapers, MiMo: Miami Modern Revealed, and New York’s 50 Best Skyscrapers, and is an architectural tour guide in New York City. He spent twenty-five years as a researcher and writer for the New York Times.

BRUCE KATZ is an architectural photographer whose work has appeared in Architectural Digest, New York Magazine, Landscape Architecture, and the Washington Post. He is on the faculty of the International Center of Photography, and several of his images were recently acquired by the New-York Historical Society.

To register for these FREE programs, click on the links above to RSVP. You will be redirected to Eventbrite where you’ll receive the Zoom link upon registering. The webinars are limited to 100 attendees, but will be livestreamed to our YouTube channel.