#RADIO SILENCE JAMES BLAKE LYRICS FREE#

The Empire State Building was damned as a commercial disaster when it opened in 1931, seen as an act of extreme hubris that would surely never be repeated. The history of the skyscraper is a history of people predicting its end. If past crises are anything to go by, probably not.

Has the age of piling people into great glass shafts, of cities competing for ever higher spires, finally come to an end? Planning applications for tall buildings in London plummeted by a third last year, while New London ArchitectureвЂ™s 2021 tall buildings survey found that work started on just 24 buildings of 20 storeys or more вЂ“ down by almost half from 44 in 2019. But will anyone ever want to work in a hermetically sealed high-rise building again, breathing the same air as thousands of potentially infectious other people?ДЄs millions around the world have settled in to working from home, itвЂ™s hard to imagine the office tower ever being a viable proposition again. It is hoped that these perks might convince people to leave the house, get on packed trains and jostle for the lifts, all in the name of teamwork and productivity. In a desperate attempt to lure employees back to their offices, companies are laying on all manner of novelty treats, from monogrammed water bottles to personalised notebooks.

#RADIO SILENCE JAMES BLAKE LYRICS FREE#

C an you hear the death rattle of the skyscraper? ItвЂ™s the sound of the free candyfloss cart being wheeled past the rows of empty desks, and the lonely drip of the beer-keg tap by the water cooler.

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