'What happened in the city of New York when the skyscrapers was born is that buildings turned from crustaceans, which are supported by their walls to vertebrates supported by their skeleton. But the skeleton had to be made of steel. It's one of the great transforming moments of how we live on earth as human beings.' David McCullough
In Frankfurt we walked past an enormous skyscrapper whose sides were unfinished in patches, revealing a rough coating of concrete the same texture and colour of a nearby church. For a moment, I thought it was deliberate, but the beautiful symmetry was accidental and temporary. Much like life.
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