Word: skyscraperism
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Inside-out House. To deliver that message, Vienna-born Neutra (pronounced Noytra) had come a long way from his first assignment in 1915: a tea house for the fortress of Trebinje, Herzegovina. Neutra came to the U.S. in 1923, sat at the feet of famed Skyscraper Architect Louis Sullivan, the...
Appropriately, the deal was signed in a nightclub. U.N. delegates would get a glittering skyscraper headquarters along the East River. New York would get U.N.'s prestige and cash. And no one was happier about it all than a jet-propelled real-estate tycoon named William Zeckendorf. He had...
A big, paunchy idea man who likes flamboyant ties and flamboyant schemes, Bill Zeckendorf had cornered a section of grimy tenements, abattoirs and garages on Manhattan's East Side. He had planned to demolish them, raise in their place a dream city of Euclidean skyscraper hotels and office buildings...
Situation Normal, etc. In Oslo, U.S. Ambassador Charles Bay, fearing the Norwegian winter, asked Washington for a few small electric heaters, got the heating plant for a skyscraper.
As the favorites champed at the barrier, New York's Mayor Bill O'Dwyer rushed up with another dark horse: an international skyscraper city to be built in the midst of Manhattan.