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3 giorni fa · However, new design approaches, specifically suited to the the skyscraper, were developed by architects such as Louis Sullivan and McKim, Mead, and White. As a result, skyscrapers came to be...
5 giorni fa · The Freemasons were competing with their local rivals the Odd Fellows, who intended to build a much higher skyscraper, 556 feet (169 m) tall, that they announced would be the tallest building in the world.
2 giorni fa · The first steel-framed "skyscraper", The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, was ten stories high. It was designed by William Le Baron Jenney in 1883, and was briefly the tallest building in the world. Louis Sullivan built another monumental new structure, the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building, in the heart
3 giorni fa · The Woolworth Building is a 792-foot-tall (241 m) residential building and early skyscraper at 233 Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Cass Gilbert , it was the tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1930, and remains one of the 100 tallest buildings in the United States as of ...
15 mag 2024 · As the first steel-framed skyscraper, the building set the standard for various innovations, including rapid, safe elevators, wind bracing, and modern plumbing. Jenney’s achievement paved the way for a group of architects and engineers known as the Chicago School, who developed the modern skyscraper in the late 19th and early 20th ...
22 mag 2024 · Richard Nickel (1928-1972) was a Polish-American architectural photographer and preservationist. Nickel first encountered the work of Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) as a student, when photographing the architect’s buildings for a project at the IIT Institute of Design.
29 mag 2024 · Louis Sullivan See all mediaIn full: Louis Henry SullivanBorn: September 3, 1856, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.Died: April 14, 1924, Chicago, Illinois (aged 67)Notable Works: Guaranty BuildingWainwright BuildingAuditorium Building and Theatre“Autobiography of An Idea”Movement / Style: Art NouveauChica...
