Word: skyscraperism
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Agriculturally prolific, Nebraska today ranks third in corn production, second in winter wheat. It is developing a lusty sugar beet industry, is a leader in the nurture of cattle and hogs. Famed it is too for its unique and sightly "skyscraper" Capitol building at Lincoln, designed by the late, great...
Other Hastings work included Arlington Memorial Amphitheatre to the Unknown Soldier, the Senate and House of Representatives office Buildings in Washington, the Manhattan Bridge, the Manhattan Victory Arch, the interior of the Metropolitan Opera House. He did not approve the theory of Manhattan skyscrapers, but he redesigned the Ritz Tower...
On Manhattan's socially outworn Riverside Drive, a skyscraper-Museum, dedicated to one man, was formally opened last week. The man was Professor Nicholas Constantinovich Roerich (TIME, July 1), famed Russian painter-writer-explorer-philosopher. The brick skyscraper, designed by Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett, uniquely graduated in tone from...
2) The higher a full-block building, up to 63 stories on $200-land and 75 stories on $400-land, the greater the percentage of return on investment in such a structure. The limit of profits is 10.25%. Beyond such heights, the investment returns diminish until, on $200-land, a...
*The world's first skyscraper, i.e., building with a structural steel skeleton, was Chicago's 13-story Tacoma Building, constructed in 1892.