Skyscraper
the day the skyscraper looms in the smoke and sun and has a soul.
Prairie and valley, streets, people pour into it and they
Mix among twenty floors ...
It is men and women, boys and girls, and poured the entire day
That would be the construction of the soul dreams and thoughts and memories ...
- Carl Sandburg's Chicago Poems (p. 325)
Sheer serendipity brought me into formal facilities planning and management activities I directed for many years. However, in many ways, it merged with an instinctive love of architectural form in all its beauty. So, for me, Joseph's Chorus is an American skyscraper will become much more -. "Coffee table" book to pick up and read again and again
In reality, however, it is the complete text of the history of America's creation and use of skyscrapers with in-depth information and over 300 images highlighting buildings across the United States. It includes over 60 pages of bibliography, index, footnotes, and tabular views celebrated skyscrapers! Author notes, "Between its covers are the stories of 287 American skyscrapers which were, or still are, which is located in seventy-one city and town ... "(p. 21) Thinking outside of detail and interior shots, as well as architects' personal images, create a significant historical contribution to the library and students and professionals in the field of architecture and engineering, as well as all those who, like myself, were impressed with the majesty and beauty of the structure .
architect Josip Chorus earned a master of architecture at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he also served as a mentor. He is an accomplished artist whose works are represented in many private collections and a freelance writer, architectural critic and photographer. He is a member of the Society of Architectural Historians, the National Trust for Historic preservation, Art Institute of Chicago, and Milwaukee Art Museum. Joseph Koroma, who also authored Look Up Milwaukee (1979) and contends that Milwaukee Architecture building (1995.
"Very tall buildings, and is now known as" skyscrapers "were invented here in America .... The people built tall for many reasons: to do the utility satisfying, personally fulfilling, and perhaps most of all to is a celebratory act, for everyone. to build tall is defiant, it is risky, and it is frightening, but an integral part of this anxiety is the winning height of ourselves, to pierce the sky with a manmade object while still tethered to the ground was simply irresistible ... "(pps. 14-15) Chorus this impressive introduction to his text with a brief historical perspective of the brave people who have started to build high and chronicles "in this country's unique contribution to architecture ..." (p. 16 ).
Presentation of the Chicago fire and the Tower as his first picture, he notes that "the ultimate expression of skyscraper technology and the embodiment of the vertical manifest destiny. It stands 110 floors, 1454 feet high, and the highest skyscraper in North America." The author includes interesting factual information such as when he notes, "when the sun sets, pedestrians at the Sears Tower bases are dipped in the shade. However, due to the curvature of the earth, the shade covering the floors of the tower from the bottom moving upward at a rate of one floor per second. So they are on top of the building offers roughly two minutes of the sun ... "(p. 21)
When I was researching building at West Virginia University campus, working to better manage the use of these facilities and then plan what is needed to meet future needs, it is always the older buildings that I found it more interesting. Research Woodburn Hall until the clock tower, or walking through Chitwood and Martin Hall, prior to their being burned and renovated, I thrilled at the basic beauty, we wanted to keep, while at the same time, create updated classrooms, offices and teaching laboratories are needed for our journalism schools and many departments within our College of Arts and Sciences.
So, as I read through the celebration of the height, it is not surprising that I eagerly studied the buildings with the older styles that were in the "courageous beginnings" starting in 1850. (p. 22). Zachary Taylor was president "in the planning and erection of the famous Jayne building in Philadelphia. Knowing that" Old Rough and Ready "was in charge of helping the birthplace of American skyscrapers in a historical context." (p. 23)
the next building is included in the celebration are just some of these in particular enjoy this former Facilities professional / reviewer! I'm sure others will choose those more modern.
° Palmer House Hotel in Chicago, built in 1872, the "first merchant prince of Chicago, Potter Palmer, at a cost of $ 200,000 (pps. 49-50).
· Madison Square Garden Tower, 16 floors, 304 meters, in New York. (P. 158)
· Women's Temple, Chicago, 1892, the home of women's Christian Temperance Union. (p. 166)
· Columbus Memorial Building, on top of the giant bronze status of Christopher Columbus, built 1893rd "In a completely reckless act, this beautiful tower was demolished 1959th" (p. 179)
· Trinity Church, New York City. Its tower is one place the tallest structure on Manhattan Island. (p. 190)
• The Carson Pirie Scott Store's main entrance is marked by the most powerful example of twisting the leaves of this mixture was executed in iron then painted Forest Green. This building, completed in 1904, was immediately driven in the annals of architectural besmrtnosti.Chicago loop is now home to a large department store, grows dozens of stories, 168 metara.Izgradnja featured some of the most powerful decorating anywhere. (pps. 231-232)
· City Investing Building, New York City, 1908, 487 meters and consists of half a million square feet, making it the world's largest office buildings. "If ever there was a tower that evokes the romance, historicism, capitalism and the optimism of the early twentieth century, the city is building investment. There is a tower that has drawn on inspiration from French Baroque sources, and thus, reduce the delightful profile on New York skyline. (p. 271)
· Bromo-Seltzer Tower, Baltimore, 1911, 15 floors, 280 meters, with a facsimile of the original Bromo-Seltzer bottle on top of your tower! (pps. 294-295)
· Peter Cooper first manufactured structural beam for the construction of Cooper Union in New York, thus setting the stage for building the skeleton, and finally the skyscraper. (p. 25). Also in New York, mid-19 century marked the age of cast iron architecture, and is still concentrated in the "Cast Iron District, as a living museum, near Greenwich Village. (p. 28)
° and, of course, the history of skyscrapers must also include the invention of elevators. Manhattan's Haughwout Building was the first office building to employ a personal elevator. "It was able to raise half tons at the rate of forty feed per minute and it was the first of its kind was" when he was installed in 1857. Any facilities professional will not be surprised to hear that Elisha Graves Otis who eventually founded the Otis Elevator Company installed it. (pps. 28-29)
In addition to detailed information facilities, and I enjoyed the smaller details Chorus added interest, such as "probably the first time linked to men and women worked side by side for eight or more hours in the same room or two .. . skyscrapers, probably from its very beginning, they were places where "the benefits of working in 'or rumors of such behavior ..." (p. 137) and a variety of interior photographs of those men and women dressed as they were at that time. indeed, the American Skyscraper 1850-1940: Celebration of Height is a book that is recommended for all those interested in American history
!its building a huge influence and power ...
His philosophy, which, in the "form follows function"
Sullivan has earned its place as one of the largest
Architectural power in America ...
- Memorial Mark Louis Henri Sullivan (p. 195)
The American Skyscraper 1850-1940:
Celebration of Height
Joseph J. Cor, Jr.
Branden Books 2008
Page 540
ISBN 13: 978-0-8283-2188-4
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