A CITY OF TOWERS
(Proposals made by the well-known American Architect, Raymond Hood, for the solution of New York’s problem of overcrowding)
By Howard Robertson, F. R. I. B. A., S. A. D. G.
Ever since the creation of the first skyscraper buildings in New York, Boston and Chicago, the problems which tall structures bring in their train have been the preoccupation of town planners, architects, and the ordinary citizen, not only in the United States but in Europe, where in a few countries, such as Germany, the skyscraper has established itself more tentatively than firmly.
The main problems are of two kinds. The first and lesser arise from the solution of the building
programme of the ultra-tall building, and involve questions of foundation, wind pressure, services of supply, vertical circulation by lift or otherwise, fire prevention, and the still unknown quantity of resistance to time and stresses of all kinds to which materials are subjected through natural load and the street vibration of a large city. The second set of problems is of. far wider interest and importance, for it involves the big question of town-planning and the efforts which are everywhere being made to cope with
THREE OPERATIONS HAVE COMPLETED ONE BLOCK.
(Proposals made by the well-known American Architect, Raymond Hood, for the solution of New York’s problem of overcrowding)
By Howard Robertson, F. R. I. B. A., S. A. D. G.
Ever since the creation of the first skyscraper buildings in New York, Boston and Chicago, the problems which tall structures bring in their train have been the preoccupation of town planners, architects, and the ordinary citizen, not only in the United States but in Europe, where in a few countries, such as Germany, the skyscraper has established itself more tentatively than firmly.
The main problems are of two kinds. The first and lesser arise from the solution of the building
programme of the ultra-tall building, and involve questions of foundation, wind pressure, services of supply, vertical circulation by lift or otherwise, fire prevention, and the still unknown quantity of resistance to time and stresses of all kinds to which materials are subjected through natural load and the street vibration of a large city. The second set of problems is of. far wider interest and importance, for it involves the big question of town-planning and the efforts which are everywhere being made to cope with
THREE OPERATIONS HAVE COMPLETED ONE BLOCK.