Word: skyscraperism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The Wild West. In Detroit, while washing windows in a skyscraper, Moreel Bellfleur came upon a raccoon on a sixth-floor ledge.
The slab-sided U.N. Secretariat building in Manhattan has caused more controversy than any other skyscraper in Manhattan's jagged skyline. Distinguished architects like Richard Neutra have hailed it as a great architectural achievement. Other people have referred to it scornfully as "a sandwich on edge." Last week Author...
"Paraded as pure engineering and applied geometry, this new skyscraper proves really to be a triumph of irrelevant romanticism. If anything deserves to be called picture-book architecture, this is it, for all the fundamental qualities of architecture seem to have been sacrificed to the external picture, or rather, to...
When Sarnoff came back in 1930, he was elected president of RCA and faced the Depression. It was forcing many a radiomaker to the wall, but Sarnoff kept on driving ahead. In 1932, the Department of Justice forced G.E. and Westinghouse to give up their 51.3% control of RCA (by...
Last week Chicago was promised its first skyscraper in nearly 20 years. As part of its decentralization program, the $9 billion Prudential Insurance Co. of America, third largest U.S. company,* announced that it will establish an independent home office in Chicago, house it in a 35-story building over the...