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The architect's model on display last week at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art looked rather like an upended radiator. But check the price tag. According to a number of guesstimates, the headquarters skyscraper of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp., scheduled for completion in 1985, could...
I am not impressed by Architect Helmut Jahn's design for the Houston tower [Nov. 8]. The only thing the proposed skyscraper lacks is King Kong swinging from its phallic spire.
At last, a skyscraper that again scrapes the sky
Now a new $350 million to $400 million Texas-size office tower in the best premodern skyscraper tradition is proposed for Houston. It does not challenge the record height of Chicago's 1,450-ft. Sears Tower. But even as a scale model, it appears taller and prouder. Like...
More decisive for Jahn's development was a commission to design an addition to the Chicago Board of Trade Building, a 1930 premodern skyscraper by one of the pioneering firms of that style, Holabird & Root. "We were forced to study this old building carefully," says Jahn. "Holabird & Root opened...