What do you feel when you look at the Melbourne CBD skyline? Is it a sense of pride? A recognisable place marker from a distance?

What about when you are in the city directly looking up at great skyscrapers? It’s probably a different feeling… a feeling of awe? An overbearing feeling?

When an idea, an object, or a building exceed an exceptional scale, it becomes monumental.

If we begin to feel that we can’t gauge its scale or place it can create confusion and feel overbearing - it makes us feel small and disconnected. It’s our responsibility as designers to have empathy and consider the effect environments will have on people.

On this month’s theme of MONUMENTAL, Jack Ryan from John Wardle Architects discusses how big buildings can still make us feel good.

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