Can towering skyscrapers and natural beauty ever really coexist? A new generation of architects doesn’t see why not, and the corporations that populate high-rises across America are beginning to see the benefits of a different kind of urban planning. “Not so long ago, green construction was largely dismissed as prohibitively expensive and as just so much political correctness. But the arrival of the Condé Nast tower in Times Square in 1999, designed by Fox & Fowle and billed as the first green skyscraper in New York, sent the message that corporate America saw something to gain from the green model.”