Word: skyscrapersful
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Folk whom an age of exaggeration has not robbed of their capacity to marvel at superlatives, or to criticize them, last week visited an extraordinary exhibition in a Manhattan building modestly called "Corona Mundi" (crown of the world) on Riverside Drive. It was an exhibition of skyscrapers*- models, photographs and...
It was just the moment for such an exhibition. Of recent weeks the Manhattan press had been full of controversy over the desirability, from the standpoints of health, traffic, economics and art, of steepling and peopling further that rock-bottomed little island upon which whole new cities have been superimposed...
Architect Bossom said ingenuously: "The American people build skyscrapers because they are unsophisticated." Architect Harvey Wiley Corbett, in a written debate held by the New York Times, suggested what monuments skyscrapers would be to humanity if anything should ever happen to the race: "The explorer of a thousand years hence...
Traffic clogging was the major grievance of the anti-skyscraperites. It might be all very true that working "far aloft, away from distracting noise, breathing the pure ozone of the firmament" was desirable, but after all most working people liked to go home at night and it was not only...
Lake Michigan never had tides but Chicago had the ebb and flow of fire to fortune, prosperity to panic, good blood to bad, old homes to ugly apartments, "joints" to skyscrapers. And human careers either breasted these tides or were swept by them to good or ill. There is nothing...