Word: skyscraperism
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In 35 years, nobody has built anything quite like Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, the world's largest privately owned business-and-entertainment center. With its labyrinth of underground shopping arcades, sunken plaza, theaters, television studios, 25 restaurants, 70 retail stores and 50,000 daytime inhabitants of 16 slab...
Gambit. A perfect crime is like a soup-can skyscraper in a supermarket. Its smug symmetry, the hubris of it all, inspires the naughty little boy in everybody with a devilish desire to give the arrogant thing a nudge and bring it down in a thundering great heap. In Gambit...
All over Spain, the word was sí. FRANCO SÍ proclaimed a sign that covered four stories of a skyscraper in downtown Madrid. VOTE SÍ FOR LA PAZ echoed posters on the walls and lampposts of every Spanish town. Spanish movie stars filmed television spots to prove that...
The 565-ft. skyscraper, constructed of concrete and glass trimmed with bronze-anodized aluminum, will form the central element in the $160 million Maine-Montparnasse redevelopment project being built on the site of the gutted Gare Montparnasse. It will import from New York City the shape, roughly, of the Pan...
Construction of the skyscraper complex, a scant 20 minutes by car from the Champs-Élysées, six minutes by rooftop helicopter from Orly and second only to the Pentagon in floor space (3,024,000 sq. ft.), will begin in 1968, provided the Paris Municipal Sites Commission bestows...