Word: skyscraperism
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Given the restrictions of the relatively small Manhattan site, there was never any real debate about whether to build a skyscraper or not. The only question was what kind of skyscraper. Few of the non-U.S. architects had had much chance to work on buildings of really soaring height...
Home again after a year of Paris, Harrison found the tides beginning to turn. The Renaissance revival was losing momentum; the skyscraper boom of the '205 was under way. Harrison left McKim, Mead & White and went to work for Bertram Goodhue, who had just woh a competition for the...
The designs had taken 18 months to finish. Architect Ray Hood had wanted the R.C.A. Building to look like a slab, but with staggered setbacks; Harrison battled for a single, uninterrupted cliff of stone. Harrison found himself alone and had to give in. That was not the only fight. The...
Rockefeller was convinced. When the Center went up, it was the simplest skyscraper group the world had ever seen. John Doe, peering up at it from the street, decided he liked it, thought maybe it was even handsome.
Mathieson's assets have about tripled (including half ownership of Baltimore's only skyscraper, the Mathieson Building) to $192 million since Nichols took over. Last year it was one of the few big corporations to show a profit gain (7%) despite a 65% jump in taxes. Squibb'...