Word: skyscraperism
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So vigorous had Manhattan's skyscraper controversy become that it had a loud echo even in Paris, where citizens wrote indignant public letters protesting against a proposal to ring the old city with monster apartment and office buildings, "skyscratchers" as the French say. London held her peace but listened...
Architect Bossom said ingenuously: "The American people build skyscrapers because they are unsophisticated." Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett, in a written debate held by the New York Times, suggested what monuments skyscrapers would be to humanity if anything should ever happen to the race: "The explorer of a thousand years hence...
So that if newsgatherers had approached him last week for his esthetic views on skyscraper construction, the Gothic master-builder of the U. S. might have stunned them by replying, as he has said before, that "bird cage" or steel-frame construction, the enfant terrible of architecture, will probably grow...
Builder-Architect Graham, under Designing Architect Daniel H. Burnham, built the Chicago World's Fair, when he was 20. He built that early century wonder, the Flatiron Building, and the new $31,000,000 Equitable Building in Manhattan; the Union Station on Capitol Hill at Washington, the Union Trust...
The west side of the Loop facing the oily, murky Chicago River is not the most glamorous site in the world for the home of grand opera. Yet, Chicagoans had reason to be proud last week when it was announced that Samuel Insull had acquired a half block amid bleak...