Skyline and Cityscapes
Recently, whilst reading the Sunday supplements I came across a holiday advertisement for Ontario with the by-line ‘The Towering Beauty of Ontario’ the accompanying photograph shows a benign public park with a trellis of trees supporting the skyline. The image, I presume, is meant to portray an iconoclastic representation of the modern city. But what attracted me to the photograph is how the skyline, although augmented with trees its vista clearly opens up to show Ontario’s communication tower. The ‘Communication Tower’ became a ubiquitous symbol of technological virility in the 1960s and 70s. Cities from Moscow to London erected these modern day obelisks. East Berlin, in particular, gave the west ‘the finger’ when it erected its 365m tower in 1969 (its observation platform swivels to this day).