TAKING THE TALL BUILDINGS COUNCIL TO HISTORIC HEIGHTS

摘要

In 1991, during a global recession, a 20-year-old English architecture-school graduate named Antony Wood rejected a job offer in his native Manchester, England. Instead, he bought a one-way ticket to Hong Kong and took his first flight-jobless and nearly penniless-9,600 miles into the unknown. "All my friends thought I was absolutely crazy," says Wood, executive director of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) since 2006. "I thought I was absolutely rational"