Word: skyscrapersful
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The superhighways of the U.S. are a monument to motion (see color pages). Once, European tourists returned from a visit to the U.S. talking of Manhattan's skyscrapers. Today they talk of the U.S. road. A ride across the arching bridges, down the six-lane expressways, under the water...
"Try to understand the city," said Walter Littlefield Creese, professor of Architectural History at the University of Illinois, in respect to the functions of its components: the skyscrapers, the streets, and the suburbs.
Creese, supplementing his lecture with slides, compared the modern urban forms--the streets, suburbs, and skyscrapers--to the original conceptions and standards of these forms. The street, for example, was originally to display rationalism, systemization, and a separation of parts; but, Creese explained, this conception has deteriorated to a mass...
For example, Chicago's Lake Shore Apartments--twin skyscrapers built on one-story concrete stilts appearing "rather effemoral" to Creese--are designed to blend harmoniously with the Lake Michigan background. On the other hand, the seemingly realistic Chicago Tribune building, constructed to house a novel illuminated tower, now appears archaic...
Just as the early towers of Italy symbolized something to the designer, so our present-day skyscrapers must usually incorporate more than mere novelty to be lasting, according to Creese.