Word: skyscraperism
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The Square is a veritable repository of various architectural styles ranging from the Richardson-Romanesque City Hall to the Italian Renaissance structure at 719 Mass Ave; it still serves as the ceremonial focal point of the town. The Central Square Office Building, in the heart of the Square, was Cambridge...
Musical comedies ignore that fact at their peril. John O'Hara's book has the spine of a skyscraper, with big-city sleaziness reflected in every panel of the glass-curtain wall. This is a Brechtian book in which a small-time heel, Joey (Christopher Chadman), with his...
Somehow, that is one message that got through. As Americans visit their own major cities in this Bicentennial season, they are being surprised, delighted, heartened and even awed by what they see. There is hardly a downtown that is not offering a glittering new face, a startling new profile. In...
Symbolic of the times is the change in the skyscraper itself. During the 1960s, the standard tower looked like a shoebox set on end. Now this sleek but rarely stimulating slab is out of style. Replacing it is a completely new series of high-rise shapes and configurations: ribbed, faceted...
Pinwheeling Setbacks. Every big city is getting its share of the new towers. Chicago, the birthplace of the skyscraper, has set the pace. It has tapering buildings, round ones and free forms; dozens have been completed in the '70s. Over them all broods the 110-story Sears Tower, with...