Sunday, April 6, 2008

Sky Scrapers




We live in a competitive world. Every day you must hear strange news or story that makes you say" wow". The super skyscrapers are one of this news. Although there is no official definition to classify a building as a skyscraper, but it has been agreed that the skyscraper is a very tall and habitable building. However, these super huge buildings place a debate point among many of educated persons. The constructors of super skyscrapers claim that the purpose of constructing such these buildings is to solve the population explosion of the city. From my point of view, I believe that creating such these huge buildings isn't good. Economical, constructional, and logical arguments can be used to support my position.


Starting with the economical argument, it is know that the budget for creating any super skyscraper is very high. Therefore, the super skyscraper owners consume a lot of money which can’t be easily restored. Moreover, it is difficult for the super skyscrapers to meet all needs of the rental markets and the workers. In other word, the floor size should be appropriate to the required prices in the markets. In addition, the workers don’t have any desire to work at any places that are located far away from the nearest windows.


The constructional argument takes its place also in this debate. It is known that creating these huge buildings takes a long period of time. Moreover, the defects of such these buildings can’t be recognized until they have been built. Besides that, the loads of these buildings make them under the risk of collapse. In addition, the winds and earthquakes can easily place the super skyscrapers occupation persons under a high risk of dangers.


From a logical point of view, even though the owners say that the purpose of creating these buildings is to meet the population needs. It is known that the price of such these buildings is too high to let the middle class people to live in rather than the poor people. Therefore, the only rich people, who already have many places to live, are be able to face the high rental apartments of the super skyscrapers.


In the end, I personally believe that it is not necessarily to consume much more money to build the super skyscrapers. Besides the economical, constructional, and logical previous arguments I believe that the main reason to build them is the human desire to show, challenge, and involve the competition.

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