Skyscrapers
SKYSCRAPERS (Le Corbusier, comparative skyscraper sketches)
New York
1916 setback zoning
1920s Hugh Ferriss (zoning envelope studies)
Empire State Building, Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, 1931
Rockefeller Center, Associated Architects, 1931-39
Lever House, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1952 (view)
Seagram Building, Mies (with Philip Johnson), 1957
Pan Am Building, Architects Collaborative, (Gropius) 1958-63
Citicorp Center, Hugh Stubbins Assoc., 1973-78 (base and plaza)
Park Avenue Plaza, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1981 (view)
AT&T Building, Johnson & Burgee, 1978-83
Trump Tower, Swank, Hayden & Connell, 1979-83
IBM Building, Edward Larrabee Barnes, 1977-83
Minneapolis -- IDS Center, Johnson & Burgee, 1972
Chicago
Dearborn Street plazas – (plan)
Federal Center, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1964-73
First National Bank
Civic Center, Jacques Brownson, 1964-5 (plaza)
John Hancock Building, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1969- (view)
Boston
John Hancock Building, I.M. Pei Associates, 1968-75
International Place, Johnson & Burgee, 1984-
Rowes, Fosters Wharves, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, 1984-
London -- Docklands, mid-1970s- (view)
Paris -- La Defense, 1970s- (plan, view)