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Created / Updated 20.08.2019 / 21.09.2019
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1.State what reasons there were in the past for making tall buildings?

Closer to God, be immortal, mark the land

2.What was the tallest building for over 4,000 years?

Pyramid of Gizeh
3.What was the end of that?

Eiffel Tower

4.What is the purpose of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai?

Be the tallest building

5.Where does the story of the skyscraper start?

Manhattan

6.How did the circus manager P.T. Barnum attract crowds?

Safety elevator (hoisted platform)
7.Who was his partner at the New York world fair of 1853?

Elisha Otis

8.What was it they did together?

Safety catch

9.How did this change the modern city?

It became possible to make tall buildings

10.How should we see tower blocks?

Symbols with meaning
11.Why were the twin towers chosen for the terrorist attack?

The tallest, symbol of economic wealth of US

12.What effect did 9/11 have on how we see skyscrapers?

The biggest became vulnerable

13.Where was the first home of the skyscraper?

San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy

14.How many towers were there originally?

Over 70
15.What is it sometimes called?

Medieval Manhattan

16.Who built the towers and why?

Aristocratic, wealthy families, to show their wealth, for protection

17.What strategy did the families come up with to beat the council’s planning laws?

Build two towers

18.What do towers symbolize?

Prosperity, power, money
19.Which other city can lay claim to being the birth place of the skyscraper?

Chicago

20.What does a landmark do?

marks the and, makes artificial mountains and foothills

21.What was the skyscraper an expression of?

American dertermination

22.What technical innovation allowed the construction of taller buildings?

Internal steel frame/cage
23.What did William Ellery Hale do with the Reliance Building?

He converted a traditional building into a steel skyscraper

24.What does the flatiron building in New York (also built by Burnham) illustrate?

Maximum use of triangular land

25.A skyscraper is a device to do what, according to Carol Willis?

Device to make the land pay

26.What places influenced New York skyscraper architecture according to Rem Koolhas?

Amusement parks and fun fairs

Short History of Tall Buildings – Part 2

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1.In which style was Woolworth’s skyscraper built, and what was it a cathedral of?

Gothic

2.How did he pay for his building? And how much?

13.5 million in cash

3.The gargoyles inside the building show what three images?

Architect, Woolworth and structural engineer

4.How long did it take to build?

2 years

5.What material were all the green areas at the top covered in?

Gold leaf

6.What problem was caused by the skyscrapers and how did the city respond?

Darkness in the streets, zoning laws

7.Who was the man who helped imagine the volumes of each plot of land?

Hugh Ferris

8.How is the Wrigley building described?

Monument to chewing gum

9.And how is the Chicago Tribune Tower described?

Temple of truth, most beautiful office building in the world

10.Which influence does the critic find?

Gothic (cathedral)

11.How many projects were handed in for the Tribune Tower competition?

263

12.What is architecture about, in these projects?

Great ideas which would mark skyscraper styles of the future

13.How was Le Corbusier’s vision welcomed in the USA?

They didn’t like it

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