Word: skyscraperism
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NEW CHICAGO SKYSCRAPER, a 40-story hotel topped only by 1955's Prudential building, will rise along Chicago River by 1959. First hotel to be built in room-short Chicago since 1929 will have 1,216 rooms. Backing it is Promoter Jerrold Wexler, 32, who raised $3,500,000...
The Pru project, to be built on-a 31-acre site in Boston's Back Bay area near Copley Square, will transform a gritty industrial area into a modern metal-and-glass city-within-a-city. Much of it will be built over the train yards of the Boston...
To those who have only a nodding acquaintance with it, the University of Pittsburgh is probably best known for 1) the 42-story Gothic skyscraper called the Cathedral of Learning, 2) Dr. Jonas Salk, and 3) its football team, the Panthers. But in future, Pitt may well be most famous...
In 1842 Author Charles Dickens visited Pittsburgh, held his ears and called the town "hell with the lid lifted." Over a century later. Author John Gunther passed through, held his nose and described it (in Inside U.S.A.) as "one of the most shockingly ugly and filthy cities in the world...
Manhattan's building boom will add another skyscraper on fast-reviving Avenue of the Americas (TIME, Dec. 10). Rockefeller Center, Inc. and TIME Inc. last week announced plans for a new 47-story, $70 million TIME and LIFE Building to occupy the entire west side of the avenue between...