Word: skyscraperism
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One Mexican who was unmoved by such warnings was swarthy, cigar-chomping Arturo Quiroz. As custodian of the 16-story National Lottery building, Mexico City's only floating skyscraper, he had only to transfer water from one to another of the four great ballast tanks beneath his building, then...
Last week from Pittsburgh, where Mike runs his scattered ventures from the Benedum-Trees skyscraper, came word of a still newer Benedum venture. His recently formed Melben Oil Co., which had spent $1,000,000 exploring for oil along Texas' coast, leased 120,480 acres of tideland area from...
Quack or genius, Roerich led a busy life that brushed against Eternal Krishna the Regenerator-and the ferrets of the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue; against dreamy Henry Wallace in Washington-and the 363 local gods of the Punjab's Kulu Valley. On Manhattan's Riverside Drive his...
For four months, ten of the world's most honored architects had stood together in a Rockefeller Center drafting room, playing with blocks, scribbling sketches, and disagreeing in a half dozen languages. Their own small quarrels were only the beginning. Last week their published plans for a skyscraper United...
Snowy-maned Frank Lloyd Wright, the crotchety old dean of U.S. architects, is no conservative, but he too had an objection: the plan suffered from "skyscraperism . . . a sinister emblem for world power. . . . Grass the ground," ordered Wright, "where the proposed U.N. skyscraper would stand...