NYC mayor takes aim at glass towers as energy hogs
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio presides over a city that’s known for its skyscrapers but he is no fan of the glass towers that have transformed the Manhattan skyline in recent decades.
De Blasio, a Democrat who is hinting at a presidential run, vowed this week to introduce a bill to ban glass and steel skyscrapers, saying those buildings are much less energy efficient than their brick and concrete counterparts and contribute more to global warming.
But representatives of the city’s real estate industry and construction experts say the mayor shouldn’t be so quick to cast stones. They say the glass and steel skyscrapers going up now embody the latest in sustainable development and don’t necessarily create a massive carbon footprint. “It’s too simple to say, ‘Oh well, glass skyscrapers are energy inefficient,”’ said Thomas Leslie, a professor of architecture at Iowa State University who gave a recent talk at New York’s Skyscraper Museum. “A smart glass building is more energy efficient than a not-smart building that’s done in another material.”
Exact details of what de Blasio is proposing are not yet clear but his use of the word “ban” in interviews led to speculation that the materials that have come to define the New York City skyline over the past 50 years could be off limits, or that owners of existing buildings would face potentially billions of dollars in renovations.
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