Talk:Skyscraper

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 * A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
 * Ludwig Mies van der Rohe


 * A skyscraper is a boast in glass and steel.
 * Mason Cooley


 * The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
 * Roland Barthes


 * Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.
 * Rem Koolhaas


 * As the twentieth century fades, North America is ceding skyscraper supremacy to Asia.
 * Emily Mitchell in Time, (1994)


 * The tall building ought to participate in the city as both a facade, connecting the walls of the street, and as an object against the sky."
 * William Pedersen in Process Architecture, 1986


 * Architecture is the alphabet on giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified statue, of much more than heroic size.
 * Gilbert Keith Chesterton