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	cars - Chrysler Building
		Completed in 1930, the Chrysler Building is a distinctive symbol of New York City, standing 1046 feet (319 m) high on the east side of Manhattan at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue.
		At the time the building was erected, the builders of New York were in the throes of a stiff competition to build the world's tallest skyscraper.
		When the building first opened it contained a public viewing gallery near the top, which a few years later was changed into a restaurant, but neither of these enterprises was able to be financially self sustaining during the Great Depression and the former observation floor became a private club.
	www.carluvers.com /cars/Chrysler_Building (521 words)

	The New Yorker: Fact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The first type was used in the cast-iron buildings of the eighteen-eighties and nineties, in which the "gravity load"—the weight of the building—was carried mostly by the exterior walls.
		The trick to designing tall buildings in windy places (like New York City and Chicago) is to endow them with enough elasticity to move with the wind but enough stiffness so that the people working on the upper floors don't know the building is moving.
		New York City firemen are very familiar with the crash of the B-25 into the seventy-eighth and seventy-ninth floors of the Empire State Building, in 1945, which killed fourteen people; the department makes that event part of the standard training that every chief and commander receives.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content?011119fa_FACT (6606 words)

	List of skyscrapers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Adapted from [1], and ranks buildings by the highest architectural detail, and does not include the height of structural components that may look like a spire, but are not classified as such.
		Also, the list does not include free-standing buildings that are not classified as high rises, such as the CN Tower, TV masts, bridges, or oil platforms.
		Updated to 2004 and destroyed buildings not included, notably the World Trade Center which would be in the top 10.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_skyscrapers (282 words)

	Elsewhere: Tall Buildings Exhibition in 2004 at the Queens, New York facility of the Museum of Modern Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although some have maintained that the terrorist attacks have lessened the popularity, and safety, of tall buildings because of their high and prominent visibility, others have noted that many cities around the world have recently forged ahead with very major skyscrapers, many of which are very interesting and notable.
		The building's central cavity, or 'window' opening, frames an adjacent 1,250,000-square-foot cultural center, which is also part of the project, as is the surrounding media park....The looping configuration...serves as a model for the mechanical systems.
		The Korean proposed project consists of six buildings of various heights, "two of which are arranged and inclined to form A-frames with their opposite towers," Tina di Carlo wrote in the catalogue entry.
	www.thecityreview.com /tall1.html (3094 words)

	NEW YORK SKYSCRAPERS - INTRODUCTION
		Another reason for the office buildings in NYC taking a skyscraper form was, along with the price of land plots in itself, the fact that individual plots, derived from the colonial times, were small and sometimes difficult to assemble for the construction of a wide-based building ( similar problems are still around).
		The term "skyscraper" came from sailor slang, meaning the tallest mast of a ship, and thus the new tall buildings that rose close to the mast forests of Downtown Manhattan in the late 19th century were dubbed accordingly.
		The buildings were clad in Indiana limestone and had uniform vertical striping, a theme derived from Hood's Daily News Building.
	www.greatgridlock.net /NYC/nycintro.html (1547 words)

	Table of contents for The Empire State Building
		Introduction: New York City and the Age of the Skyscraper By the early 1920s, American cities, and especially New York City, had become the domain of a new kind of building known as the skyscraper.
		New construction methods and the invention of passenger elevators allowed builders to create buildings of increasing height and numbers of stories, even if critics complained that New York and Manhattan were becoming cities without sunlight, as the taller buildings blocked the sun's light from reaching the streets.
		The Chrysler Building took the title temporarily, until the construction of the Empire State Building, which eclipsed the Chrysler Building and became, for forty years, the tallest building in the world and the tallest in New York.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip0421/2004019012.html (1051 words)

	Rebuilding NYC - News
		New York University course that was to have focused on the intersection of politics, finance, design and culture in the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan has been canceled because of concerns about the potential political fallout from the course.
		New York City's fire commissioner said it could take years before all the equipment needed for reliable communications inside the city's tallest buildings is put in place.
		A new Brooklyn office tower to be built by Forest City Ratner Companies and occupied by the Bank of New York will be the first commercial construction project to be financed by Liberty Bonds, which were approved by Congress in response to the Sept. 11 attacks, city and state officials said yesterday.
	www.gothamgazette.com /rebuilding_nyc/news/sep02.shtml (15643 words)

	ArchitectureWeek New Books Listing
		The new building of the European Central Bank is attracting considerable international attention and is expected to become a new landmark for Frankfurt, Germany.
		The story of New York's Pennsylvania Station, from its construction (1902-1910) to its demolition in the 1960s, and the anticipation of a new station in 2003.
		New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp calls Rafael Viñoly "the most elegant architect now practicing in the United States." This collection of his work from all over the world is documented in more than 500 color images and drawings.
	www.architectureweek.com /new_books.html (11809 words)

	Fifty tallest buildings in the USA
		The United States is home to many of the world's tallest skyscrapers.
		Here is a list of the U.S.'s 50 tallest based on their official height.
		Before the September 11 terrorist attacks, the twin towers of the World Trade Center occupied the number 2 position (or 2 and 3 if one chooses to count them separately).
	news-server.org /f/fi/fifty_tallest_buildings_in_the_usa.html (151 words)

	THE FIFTY-NINE-STORY CRISIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Then he explained how the peculiar geometry of the building, far from constituting a mistake, put the columns in the strongest position to resist what sailors call quartering winds--those which come from a diagonal and, by flowing across two sides of a building at once, increase the forces on both.
		He believed that the building was safe for occupancy in all but the most violent weather, thanks to the tuned mass damper, and he insisted that the damper's reliability in a storm could be assured by installing emergency generators.
		As a result, press coverage in New York City the next day was as uninformative as the handout: a short piece in the Wall Street Journal, which raised no questions about the nature of the new data, and one in the News, which dutifully quoted DeFord's remark about belts and suspenders.
	www.predesign.org /citicorp1.htm (6704 words)

	Welcome to The New-York Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Contains an exhibitions archives (1996-present) and visual archives; also, an illustrated chart of the world's tallest buildings: http://www.skyscraper.org/tallest/tallest.htm.
		They include recruiting posters for New York City regiments of volunteers; stereographic views documenting the mustering of soldiers and of popular support for the Union in New York City; photography showing the war's impact, both in the north and south; and drawings and writings by ordinary soldiers on both sides.
		Among the municipal archives' many holdings are : records of the coroner and office of chief medical examiner, 1823-1939, docket books from Manhattan's department of buildings, 1866 to 1959, ledgers records for the city cemetery on Hart's Island (aka "Potter's Field"), New York City court records 1684-1966, mayors' papers 1849.
	www.nyhistory.org /library/reslinks.html (1430 words)

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		The building was one of the first tenements in New York City.
		New York is also home to the world's most famous skyscraper -- the Empire State Building.
		Another song about New York was written in the Nineteen-Forties for a movie called "On the Town." The movie is about three sailors who are visiting New York for just one day.
	www.manythings.org /voa/01/010810am_t.htm (864 words)

	NEW YORK SCRAPERS - PRESS
		And rather than being one of those directly connected with new building developments in the city or other issues that would warrant a treatment of their own in the Additional Info sections, these will be more of news-in-brief type clippings or of even lighthearted nature.
		Interesting in the US buildings list was the fact that, along with such "objective" views as the surveyees' own house ranking overall second, the fifth and seventh places went to the critically lambasted Sears Tower and World Trade Center, respectively.
		The renovation of the 2 Broadway, MTA's new headquarters (when it finally is completed), has been severely hampered -- in addition to the normal NYC problems like quality of work and legal battles -- by the involvement of its development executive and his mob buddies.
	www.greatgridlock.net /NYC/nycpress.html (20036 words)

	GE Building - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The top floor of the building is an event room and restaurant named the Rainbow Room which was just recently reopened to the public.
		The observation deck atop the skyscraper is being prepared to reopen to the public by Fall 2005, after it had been closed since 1986 to accomodate for the renovation of the Rainbow Room.
		The deck will offer sightseerers a bird's eye view of the city, competing with the 86th floor observatory of the Empire State Building.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/GE_Building (485 words)

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