Shadows from NYC supertowers are a bummer

In fairness to reflective buildings generally; both the ones currently known for their death-ray properties were the…problem children… of Rafael Viñoly, who apparently is too award-winning to bother with questions like ‘might building a 57 story parabolic reflector in not-particularly-cloudy Nevada pose a glare risk?’ and ‘The last time I used that shape, they nicknamed the result ‘the death ray’. Should I consider a different plan?’

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