The Supertall Episode

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🗓️ 26 June 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week Felix Salmon, Emily Peck and Elizabeth Spiers are joined by author and architect, Stefan Al to talk all about skyscrapers and his new book, Supertall.

They talk about the human desire to build tall buildings (and the backlash to them), why parts of New York don’t work, but Hong Kong does, and why people keep paying premiums for apartments that sway.

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Podcast production by Cheyna Roth.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the super tall episode of Slate Money, your guide to the business
0:18.4	and finance news of the week.
0:21.2	This week we're going and we're going off news.
0:23.4	We have a very, very special episode all about skyscrapers.
0:28.6	I'm Felix Salmon of Axios.
0:30.3	I'm here with Emily Peck of Axios.
0:32.5	Hello, hello.
0:33.7	I'm here with Elizabeth Spires.
0:36.2	Hello there.
0:37.6	But mostly we are joined by an extremely special guest, Stephen Owl.
0:42.5	Welcome.
0:43.4	Thank you very much.
0:44.2	It's a pleasure to be here.
0:45.5	Introduce yourself.
0:46.4	Who are you?
0:47.1	And what is the name of your book?
0:49.0	I think I gave it away already.
0:50.8	I'm an architect and also an author of super tall, how the world's largest buildings
0:56.2	are shaping our cities and our lives.
0:58.5	First we shape our buildings and then they shape us.
1:01.2	Who said that?
1:02.2	Was that Churchill?
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