Word: skyscraperism
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For Big Business, Manhattan in recent years has not been an isle of joy. Many corporations have fled New York City; few have had the faith or the funds to build there. Thus the opening of the new $150 million Citicorp Center in midtown Manhattan was an event in itself...
Resting on four immense ten-story stilts, the new glass-and-aluminum skyscraper is the world's eighth tallest, soaring 915 ft. It is topped by a thrusting 130-ft. wedge angled at 45° to catch sun and moon and every passing eye. Inside, the 59-story building...
The Center is divided into three parts. There is the skyscraper, with 1.3 million sq. ft. of office space. The Market, three floors of a glass-roofed, tree-dotted building within a building, houses shops and restaurants. And, paying its dues to God as well as Mammon, Citicorp Center includes...
Besides the skyscraper's towering stilts and bright aluminum sheathing, its most unusual feature is the angled wedge on top. It was originally designed to house luxury apartments-a plan that was dropped because the zoning laws were not advantageous. Then the bank hoped to use its southern-faced...
The Islanders. Each weekday morning when Attorney Charles Moriarty, 50, a former state senator, boards the 7:10 ferry for a 35-minute commute to a glass-and-steel skyscraper in Seattle, he leaves behind what his wife Marion calls "a paradise"-Restoration Point on Puget Sound's Bainbridge...