THE CHANGING SKYSCAPE

While driving to The Bronx to see the Van Gogh exhibit at the Botanical Gardens on September 18, 2025, my husband, Arnee, and I discussed some new buildings we spotted that blend beautifully into the skyscape. They’re rather mesmerizing. Who thinks of these ideas? What makes someone an inventor?

In Atlantic City, we’ve seen a building that turns the sky into drifting clouds penetrating the building. That structure houses a casino. Those buildings are much easier on the eyes than the newer “boxes” built in cities everywhere in the past few years. The “boxes,” as I called them even before reading on the internet that they are known as boxes, are ruining the country’s skyscape. Again, I ask, who thinks of these ideas? What made the inventor/architect of the “boxes” have a demand for more “boxes?”

I cannot help but wonder what artists such as Van Gogh would think of the current trend in skyscapes. As we meandered around the Bronx Botanical Gardens, the beautiful sunflowers that Van Gogh painted aligned a designer’s landscape with how a pleasing skyscape should complete a picture. Wouldn’t you agree?

That last picture of a painting by Van Gogh allows you to drift dreamily from the land to the sky and back, uninterrupted by the changing modern skyscape. In my opinion, you get what you pay for, and the sleek, easy-to-build, less expensive “boxes” are simply ruining our country’s skyscape.