Word: skyscraperism
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After denouncing everybody else's skyscrapers, Frank Lloyd Wright in the latter days of his life wished to turn cities into grand parks surrounding a few mile-high office buildings that would lodge the city's entire work force. Each rapier-like 528-story building would have atomic...
BIGGEST LEASE for office space ever taken in Manhattan was signed by Pan American Airways, which took 613,000 sq. ft. on 15 floors of the 59-story skyscraper to be built over Grand Central Terminal. Result: office building, once named Grand Central City, will be called Pan Am Building...
Architect Louis Sullivan was the father of the modern skyscraper, but the tallest structure he ever got to build was the 17-story Garrick Building on Randolph Street in Chicago's Loop. It was a theater topped by offices, and in its best days it was a masterpiece of...
The original idea was only for a nine-story building. But Pei convinced M.I.T. that a high-rise building-M.I.T. frowns at the word skyscraper-would not only help solve M.I.T.'s space problems but would also provide a focus for the other low roofs. The new structure...
Hang the Cost. Brasilia is a skyscraper city sprung metropolis-size from a broad plateau where, just 43 months ago, Kubitschek recalls, "there was only solitude and a jaguar screaming in the night." It was thrown up at a hang-the-cost speed that wrenched the whole country's...