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Two years later Eero proudly walked off with first prize in a Swedish newspaper matchstick-design contest, collected 30 Swedish kronor ($8). The same week, his father received a telegram from Chicago announcing that he was runner-up in the international Chicago Tribune Tower contest, with a design that Skyscraper...
From the time he took in the New York skyline in 1952, Tambi thought of erecting an intercontinental "skyscraper of poetry." Poetry London-New York slowly took shape in the fusty, rambling apartment in Manhattan's far East 80s that Tambi shares with his pretty, Bombay-born wife, Sana...
Sightseeing Elevator. San Diego's 15-story, hilltop El Cortez Hotel, overlooking San Diego Bay, has been fitted with a $100,000 Plexiglas-walled cab that travels up the outside of the building. Built by Glass Elevator Corp. of San Diego, the transparent 16-passenger elevator rides on a...
The tallest skyscraper in France today is in the cathedral town of Amiens, a 25-story tower made of reinforced concrete, named for Architect Auguste Ferret. Far from pointing to the building with pride, the people of Amiens have scornfully dubbed it La Chandelle (The Candle). To the French government...
By virtually every measure, 1955 showed the flowering of American capitalism. With barely 6½% of the world's population the U.S. turned out well over 60% of its goods. Across the land the signs of limitless bounty were evident. Prosperity's bright star twinkled over Chicago, where...