America 01: Skyscrapers

It's one thing to see the skyscrapers from a distance, quite another to be nestled in between them. Just the sheer tonnage, all that concrete and steel, that raw power. It's breathtaking. You feel like an ant, or an explorer picking their way through the relics of some ancient and unimaginably powerful civilisation. Who made these enormous affronts to gravity? These mighty digits pointed up at the cold universe that birthed us if to say "your move, punk".