Word: skyscrapersful
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Overseas travelers in the U.S. have gradually agreed on a list of "must-see" places that can be covered in a two-or-three-week stay. The standard Grand Tour in the New World always includes New York (main attractions: skyscrapers and Harlem), Washington (Government buildings and, recently, Watergate), the...
Just down Main Street across the Longfellow Bridge loom the skyscrapers of Boston's Government Center. To the south, the Prudential and Hancock buildings stand starkly against the sky. To the north and west, the Sonesta Hotel and MIT complete the compass of tall modern architecture.
The Sears Tower has already come under attack from critics who argue that it will add to the congestion of Chicago's Loop. It has also been criticized on aesthetic grounds, and is certainly a far cry from the conventional, slick, sheer-walled slab. But S.O.M. was really following...
Died. Henry Chandlee Turner Jr., 70, executive committee chairman and past president (1947-65) of the Turner Construction Co., which under his aggressive leadership became one of the nation's biggest builders of skyscrapers (the United Nations Secretariat, Chase Manhattan Bank Building); after suffering a stroke; in Greenwich, Conn...
Farms will be mixed with factories and homes to provide what Neil Pinney, MXC's chief architect-planner, calls "a rural-urban balance" throughout the city. Nowhere in MXC will there be skyscrapers ("Psychologically alienating," says Pinney, who used to work with Los Angeles City Planner William Pereira). In...