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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Manhattan Skyscrapers
  name:
    name part: Nash, Eric P.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2005
    edition: Revised and Expanded Edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 197 p. 300 illus., 125 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: CAROL WILLIS kyscraper history changed civic and commercial structures of two to ten In the ?rst half of the history of the New on September 11, 2001 . This book, stories. The Destruction of Lower Manhattan York skyscraper, steel frames were clad in stone, ?rst published in 1999 , needs a new (1969 ), an album by photographer Danny brick, or terra cotta and offered the illusion of Sedition, if only to place the entry on Lyons, captured the last remnants of down- monumental mass. In the second half, from the the World Trade Center in the past tense and to town’s working waterfront at the moment of 1940 s through today, the aesthetic has been acknowledge that the title is tinged with tragedy. massive urban renewal, including the construc- principally transparent planes and volumes, a Academics debate perspectives through which tion of the new World Trade Center. In this curtain wall that reveals the structural system we view the past, and in the late twentieth cen- storyline, skyscrapers were the ultimate villains and the space within. Advances in technology, tury the postmodern mindset argued the impos- in a march of modernity that squashed human including high-strength steel, bolted and welded sibility of a single truth or unshifting narrative. scale and erased history.
  table of contents: American Tract Society Building -- Bayard-Condict Building -- Park Row Building -- Flatiron Building -- West Street Building (now 90 West Street) -- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower -- Bankers Trust Company Building (originally 14 Wall Street) -- Woolworth Building -- Municipal Building -- Candler Building -- Equitable Building -- Bush Tower -- Shelton Towers Hotel (now Marriott East Side Hotel) -- American Radiator Building -- Ritz Tower -- Paramount Building -- Barclay-Vesey Building -- Fred F. French Building -- Beekman Tower (originally Panhellenic Tower) -- Tudor City -- Hearst Magazine Building (originally International Magazine Building) -- Chanin Building -- One Fifth Avenue -- Helmsley Building (originally New York Central Building) -- Fuller Building -- Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower (now Republic National Bank) -- Downtown Athletic Club -- Daily News Building -- 40 Wall Street (originally the Bank of Manhattan Company Building) -- Chrysler Building -- San Remo Apartments (originally San Remo Hotel) -- Riverside Church -- 120 Wall Street -- 500 Fifth Avenue -- Empire State Building -- Waldorf-Astoria Hotel -- McGraw-Hill Building -- General Electric Building (originally RCA Victor Building) -- City Bank Farmers Trust Company Building -- Cities Service Building (now 70 Pine Street) -- One Wall Street (originally Irving Trust Company Building) -- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, North Building -- Rockefeller Center -- 100 Park Avenue -- United Nations Secretariat -- Lever House -- Seagram Building -- Time & Life Building -- Union Carbide Building (now Chase Manhattan Bank) -- Chase Manhattan Plaza -- Pan Am Building (now Met Life Building) -- CBS Building -- Silver Towers (originally University Plaza) -- Marine Midland Bank Building (now 140 Broadway) -- General Motors Building -- One Astor Plaza -- XYZ Buildings Exxon Building McGraw-Hill Building Celanese Building -- W. R. Grace Building -- 1 and 2 World Trade Center -- One Liberty Plaza (or…
  note: by Eric P. Nash.
  subject:
    topic: Architecture
  subject:
    topic: Buildings
  subject:
    topic: Architecture / Design
  subject:
    topic: Building Types and Functions
  subject:
    topic: Cities, Countries, Regions
  classification: NA4170-8480
  classification: N8217.B85
  classification: 725-728
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9781568986524
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1-56898-652-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151125232122.0
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