Word: skyscraperism
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The shabbiest street in midtown Manhattan is the Avenue of the Americas, still known to Manhattanites by its old name, Sixth Avenue. Its hole-in-the-wall souvenir shops, cut-rate stores, bars, and delicatessens sprawl in an incongruous line between the luxury of Fifth Avenue and the tinsel of...
The site on the east side of Sixth Avenue between 51st and 52nd Streets, just north of Radio City Music Hall, has been leased from the Equitable Life Assurance Society, which is financing the project and intends to build its own new home office directly across Sixth Avenue. One famed...
Chicago was reborn during two drama-packed decades of engineering breakthroughs (hydraulic elevators, fireproof hollow tile, new foundation planning, and the first steel skeleton construction-the Home Insurance Building) that set the stage for the major U.S. contribution to architecture: the skyscraper. And in this new Chicago it was to...
Sullivan's major contribution was to establish the skyscraper as an architectural form in its own right. One of his best is Buffalo's Guaranty (now Prudential) Building (left), finished in 1895 at the peak of Sullivan's powers, just before his partnership with Adler broke up...
"Words, Just Words." For three days, usually with Hammarskjold just listening, the three foreign ministers talked in the skyscraper suite. The Westerners felt that they were getting Fawzi to concede little. "Words, just words," blurted discouraged Christian Pineau on leaving one session. Said another diplomat: "Fawzi is conducting a striptease...