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  2. Chrysler Building - Wikipedia

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    The new design was much more conservative, with an Italianate dome that a critic compared to Governor Al Smith's bowler hat, and a brick arrangement on the upper floors that simulated windows in the corners, a detail that remains in the current Chrysler Building. This design almost exactly reflected the shape, setbacks, and the layout of the ...

  3. Skyscraper design and construction - Wikipedia

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    Good structural design is important in most building designs, but particularly for skyscrapers since even a small chance of catastrophic failure is unacceptable given the high prices of construction and potential risk to human life on a massive scale, as seen in the Surfside condominium collapse of 2021. This presents a paradox to civil ...

  4. List of tallest buildings in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Tallest building west of the Mississippi River from 1989 to 2017. Tallest building constructed in the world in the 1980s. It was previously the tallest building in the world with a helipad on the roof. [59] [60] It is now third on that list behind China World Trade Center Tower III, and Guangzhou International Finance Center. Franklin Center ...

  5. PSFS Building - Wikipedia

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    Philadelphia Saving Fund Society Building data from the Philadelphia Architects and Buildings (PAB) project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia; William Lescaze Papers at Syracuse University - architectural designs and plans, construction photos, interior and exterior design and photographs; PSFS Building on Empty Canon

  6. Lake Point Tower - Wikipedia

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    Lake Point Tower from St. Regis Chicago between Navy Pier and Lake Shore Drive, 2022. The architects for Lake Point Tower were John Heinrich and George Schipporeit, working under the firm name of Schipporeit and Heinrich; the two were students of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the best known architects of the Bauhaus movement and International Style school, who taught at the Illinois ...

  7. Central Park Tower - Wikipedia

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    Central Park Tower is a residential supertall skyscraper at 225 West 57th Street, along Billionaires' Row, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, New York, U.S. Designed by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, the building rises 1,550 feet (472.4 m) with 98 above-ground stories and three basement stories, although the top story is numbered 136.

  8. 53W53 - Wikipedia

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    The building's sales gallery, on Fifth Avenue, included a digital board with information about the units and images of other Nouvel buildings. [108] A model unit, to exhibit the materials in the interior of each apartment, was also constructed in the sales gallery. [108] [109] Foundation work began in September 2015 after the excavations were ...

  9. Tribune Tower - Wikipedia

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    The Tribune Tower is a 463-foot-tall (141 m), 36-floor neo-Gothic skyscraper located at 435 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States.The early 1920s international design competition for the tower became a historic event in 20th-century architecture. [1]