The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.
The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.
The St. James is a great example of history meeting high-rise luxury. This winning property incorporated four existing eighteenth century buildings into a residential skyscraper that has changed its city's skyline.
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting point and its rich environment.
A lot of building super tall has to do with the local governments wanting to put their flag in the ground and say, 'We have arrived as an economy.' China, Malaysia and Taiwan are really trying to establish themselves on the skyscraper playing field. They want to make a statement that they have arrived.
I think to be shot in a mountain valley somewhere or other is altogether less glorious than crashing an airliner into a skyscraper.
New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.
Solidarity is not a matter of sentiment but a fact, cold and impassive as the granite foundations of a skyscraper. If the basic elements, identity of interest, clarity of vision, honesty of intent, and oneness of purpose, or any of these is lacking, all sentimental pleas for solidarity, and all other efforts to achieve it will be barren of results.
Instead of the big business, skyscraper feel of Bellevue, Kirkland is a place for those who opt for a more relaxed, residential atmosphere.
By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars
and has a soul.
By day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and
has a soul.
A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
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