Tag Archives: New York City

[History] Glass Skyscraper for New York

I took the day on Monday, and PrairieMod had a nice catch — this page from the June 1930 edition of Modern Mechanics showing a proposed Frank Lloyd Wright skyscraper for New York City. The building was to be built of concrete and glass with no structural steel.

One of the unusual features of this building […]

12 Great Modern Buildings

On Saturday, October 6, the British paper the Guardian began a 2-week, 12-building survey of modern architecture, “Great Modern Buildings”. The dead tree edition of the paper will have poster-sized pull-outs for each (oh, to live in England) and the website will feature an interactive guide to five of the buildings (for us luckless colonials […]