lacking both the sense of uplift and exuberance of prewar skyscrapers and the lightness and elegance of the best postwar buildings. The street-level areas came in for special criticism.

As is par for the course these days, 70 Gracechurch Street — located on the corner of Gracechurch Street and Fenchurch Street ...

will be sited in the “Eastern cluster” of skyscrapers close to the Gherkin. It will also feature a 2,500 sqm publicly accessible podium garden 42 metres above street level with a glass floor ...

This new Mumbai skyscraper in the affluent suburb of Khar ... Instead of an impersonal frontage at street level, the structure is set back from the road and cantilevered on concrete stilts.