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The Spivey Building is a 12-story skyscraper located at 417 Missouri Avenue in East St. Louis, Illinois. Built in 1927 by newspaper owner Allen Spivey, the building is the only skyscraper ever constructed in East St. Louis. Architect Albert B. Frankel designed the building in the Commercial style.
The Skyscraper Museum is an architecture museum located in Battery Park City, Manhattan, New York City and founded in 1996. [1] As the name suggests, the museum focuses on high-rise buildings as "products of technology, objects of design, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence."
Carol Willis is the founder, director, and curator of the Skyscraper Museum. [1] She is also adjunct associate professor of Urban Studies at Columbia University. [2] Herbert Muschamp described Willis in The New York Times as the “woman who created the Skyscraper Museum in 1996 from nothing but her imagination, her passion for New York architecture, and her belief in the importance of history ...
Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) [1] was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" [2] and "father of modernism". [3] He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.
Before becoming a Skyscraper, Spivey had wrestled as "Golden Boy" Danny Spivey in the WWF from 1985–88 in a gimmick where with his blonde hair, height and build, yellow trunks and yellow boots saw him labelled by fans as a clone of then WWF World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan. He returned to the WWF in 1995 under the name Waylon Mercy, this ...
Family members of Scott Spivey and two Horry County Council members met with police investigators Sept. 26 to receive information on what might have led to the death of Spivey, 33, of Tabor City.
432 Park Avenue (middle), a pencil tower in New York City. A pencil tower (also known as a skinny skyscraper, [1] pencil-thin tower, super-slender tower, or super-slim tower) is a high-rise building or skyscraper with a very high slenderness ratio, meaning it is very tall while being very thin.
Skyscraper Museum interior. Sustainability is a key aspect of Duffy's design approach. His Koch Center for Science, Mathematics & Technology at Deerfield Academy will receive a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.