Skyscraper Rivals

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Millions of visitors flock to New York each and every year to witness the excitement of Wall Street, famous for its shoulder-to-shoulder Deco towers jostling for prominence above the canyon like streets. Skyscraper Rivals is the first book to examine the architecture of Wall Street between the wars through an important array of latest and archival images and an informed discussion of the financial, geographical, and historical forces that shaped this district. The book makes a speciality of the AIG Building—once referred to as the Cities Service Building—and three other major towers within the financial district, in their race to be the tallest, probably the most brand new, and probably the most lavish. We meet the tycoons who paid for these structures, the architects who designed them, the workers who labored in them, and the artists and photographers who portrayed them. The economics of skyscraper construction and the true-estate market of Wall Street are explained; also included are illuminating details and anecdotes surrounding each and every building’s history. An essay by Carol Willis, director of New York’s Skyscraper Museum and writer of Form Follows Finance, provides an introduction.

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