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When city land becomes too expensive to build churches upon, a solution is to combine churches and skyscrapers. The Chicago Temple (First Methodist Episcopal Church plus offices, stores) and Manhattan's Broadway Temple (Methodist Episcopal Church plus apartment houses, hotel, stores) are examples. San Franciscans now have a brand...
The Apple Cart. In the later years of his life George Bernard Shaw, his spirit and eloquence unimpaired, has relinquished Socialism and the kindred shibboleths of his younger days to make obeisance before his King and, by implication, every wise, considerate monarch who ever occupied a throne. The hero of...
¶ "Cities will spread out more and more, working men can have more ground around their homes. Cities had better stop piling up their skyscrapers anyway. Everyone knows the interior of the earth is plastic. It's possible to get too much weight upon the surface. It's...
A recital, with color prints, of how Color entered Industry (in cash registers, kodaks, planes, pens, skyscrapers), including optical proof that the Great White Way is no longer white.
William Adams Delano, famed U. S. architect (Delano & Aldrich), speaking before the Architecture Club of London, advised English architects against erecting skyscrapers. Said he: "Americans are gradually being crushed by these monsters. . . . Unless you are ready to swallow our civilization whole, it would seem a mistake to copy any part...