Jul 01 2011
Posted by Sujan under Uncategorized
Skyscrapers
CREDIT: Gottscho, Samuel H., photographer. "The Empire State Building. From south," 1934.
Courtesy of "Chicago and Its Makers" (Chicago: Felix Mendelsohn, 1929).
Skyscrapers offered visual proof of progress in twentieth-centuries cities, skyscrapers. Corporate offices, along with banks, law offices, and advertising agencies that served them, now towered over downtown streets. Chicago’s 36-story Tribune Tower, and New York’s 102-story Empire State Building represented the reorientation of downtown space in the transition from industrial to corporate city. Chicago tribune tower construction started in 1923 and completed in 1925 is 462 feet tall. When the Empire State Building opened on May 1, 1931, it was the tallest building in the world – standing at 1,250 feet tall. This building not only became an icon of New York City, it became a symbol of twentieth century man’s attempts to achieve the impossible.
Source: New York Documentary directed by Ric Burns