Word: skyscraperism
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Two years ago, was built in Chicago the Temple-"Methodism's skyscraper church." On the ground floor is the First Methodist Episcopal Church: above are 20 floors of offices of which, according to a statement made by William W. Dixon, Secretary-Treasurer of the Chicago M. E. Church Aid...
Specifications. The architect's draft of this world's first educational skyscraper shows a great soaring edifice, Gothic in form but not in detail, rising tower above flanking tower, up and up along slender perpendicular lines to a blunt, shorn-off pinnacle 680 ft. above the rectangular base...
"This will be the greatest structure ever erected by any community to tell its own living will", says Chancellor Bowman of the new edifice. The determination to rise to dizzy heights instead of staying close to the ground is masked under the cloak of convenience, saving in land investment, better...
The thought of a college in a skyscraper is a distinctly American idea, but that is not enough to recommend it. Learning is not so much a matter of silent elevator doors and good ventilation as it is of reflection and cloistered seclusion. But this is not a question of...
The great day of Portland cement did not set in until cheap structural steel became a commonplace. The reinforced concrete building then came in, as well as concrete roads, concrete canal locks and railroad abutments and many other forms of substitution for solid stonework. Without concrete no less than fabricated...