This is nearly an impossible thing to describe from an urban designer's standpoint without pictures like this. I completely agree. Lowrise structures can assist in framing, composing, and celebrating nearby architecture. They assist with viewsheds that would otherwise be dull and uninteresting if it were a dense forest of skyscrapers, difficult to comprehend from extreme oblique angles.
However for lack of height, the lowrise structure must compensate in its architecture. Here that is the case. It also helps if it's a mixture of several buildings, creating a "fine grain streetwall."
This is where the debate heats up in NYC where they recently upzoned buildings heights in Midtown Manhattan. It has huge implications for mass teardowns of the vintage office buildings for boxy glass towers. Could potentially be tragic from an architectural standpoint and lend itself to oppressive scale.
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