Stratospheric Living

Like living in a (sometimes bad) dream. (Extell)

Higher Than Thou: The Headaches That Come With Living on Top of the World

High life isn’t just a cheap beer. It’s also the way that some people—those who like to be in the upper echelons of society both literally and figuratively—live.

Local options for the vertically inclined include New York by Gehry at 8 Spruce Street, the still-rising One57 and the yet-to-rise 432 Park Avenue. Inevitably, there’s already something else in the works, or soon to be in the works, that will loom over all of those other buildings and block the sunlight for us mere mortals who spend most of our time at street level. Read More