Word: skyscraperism
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A quarter-century ago, Chicago and the Midwest were startled by the appearance, here and there amid the contemporary melange of Victorian residences, of an occasional long, low rectilinear structure with severe walls of stone or stucco, and wide, overhanging roof casting deep horizontal bands of shadow on the walls...
In Chicago, Joseph Vrany went home after driving rivets in the top of a skyscraper, fell off a chair, died of wounds.
When city land becomes too expensive to build churches upon, a solution is to combine churches and skyscrapers. The Chicago Temple (First Methodist Episcopal Church plus offices, stores) and Manhattan's Broadway Temple (Methodist Episcopal Church plus apartment houses, hotel, stores) are examples. San Franciscans now have a brand...
The adoption of arc-welding by shipbuilders marks another step in the gradual displacement of the noisy and often inefficient rivet. Welding is increasingly used in steel skyscraper construction (in Manhattan a fire department permit is necessary). In the construction of many parts of automobiles, welding is replacing and bettering...
Their modernity was amply demonstrated by the designs and photographs they exhibited last week of the Palmolive and six other Chicago buildings, the Rand Tower in Minneapolis and the Racine (Wis.) County Courthouse. Said the jury of awards: ". . . They are evolving a treatment of the skyscraper that makes the most...