skinnyscraperEtymologyFrom skinny + -scraper.nounAn extremely narrow skyscraper; a pencil tower.“The future was the privatisation of the sky and a transfer from corporate power to individual wealth, the visual manifestation of the 0.1 per cent. It was a catwalk of anorexic skinnyscrapers by the equivalents of haute-couture designers — the built manifestations of Tom Wolfe's "social X-rays".”