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"Rand" in upper New York state stands for "Banking" as much as does "Giannini" in California. Just dedicated is the Rand Building, tallest of Buffalo skyscrapers, a memorial from Banker Rand to his father, George Franklin Rand Sr.,? remembered as an able banker and a mainspring of Buffalo finance...
Of U. S. architecture, Vienna's Josef Hofmann declares: "Skyscrapers are un- luckily marred by unharmonious architecture; on the other hand, a granary of the Washburn-Crosby Co., built in Minneapolis in 1920, is an absolute model" [of the "modern intention" of "letting a construction speak for itself"].
Sirs: I note that Mr. J. H. Landers of Temple, Tex., has called your hand about the height of skyscrapers; reminded you that the omission of the Amicable Building at Waco, Tex., was a grave one. Mr. Landers might have related an amusing quip well known in the Southwest. It...
Critics have said that the most artistically significant things in U. S. architecture are not skyscrapers or state capitols but grain-elevators, barns, oil-cracking stills. They say that because the grain-elevator is not plastered with irrelevant art and decoration, because the barn was not preconceived in Paris or...
Potent real estate operators appear generally to have commenced their careers as bewildered immigrants and to have proceeded through bewildering skyscrapers. Famed in Manhattan are: