Construction Begins On Shanghai Groundscraper-Hotel

Referring to the "groundscraper"–a sprawling, territorial megastructure initiated, in a sense, when Le Corbusier felled his skyscraper project at Chandigarh (what would become the Secretariat offices) and toppled it onto the ground bed below, thereby exchanging excessive heights for surface coverage –Charles Jencks called the typological model a "skyscraper which has met a 'fate worse than death.'"

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