Word: skyscraperism
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He concluded that the era of banks and skyscrapers is at an end, as indeed it has been since Franklin Roosevelt took office. In the decade covered by the exhibition there have been almost no major skyscraper projects except Rockefeller Center. Ferriss once called the skyscraper the "hieroglyph of capitalism...
One night last week Broadway and half Manhattan blacked out -from Greenwich Village to Harlem. The greatest concentration of light in all the world blinked out. Suddenly dark were the marquees and façades of Roseland, Lindy's, the Paramount, the Astor; dark were the skyhigh signs. Out...
But though theoretical Europeans acclaim his work as one of the most important influences on the "international" style of modern architecture, exuberant Architect Wright has always steered clear of the mechanical extremes which made much "modern" European building look cold and inhuman. Curiously, though he was trained in the Chicago...
* Finest study to date of the Chicago school is included in the monumental book, Space, Time & Architecture by Swiss-born Architectural Critic Sigfried Giedion, which has just reached its third printing (Harvard University Press; $5). Giedion finds the roots of the Jenney and Sullivan skyscraper, not in the showpieces of...
Spring fever was high in Federal Light & Traction Co.'s annual meeting, held last week on the 45th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper. Sunlight tumbled through the windows. Eight spring-struck shareholders (of Federal's 1,900) lolled in their chairs, babbled of brook trout and pheasant. One...