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Authors Igor Marjanovic and Katerina Ruedi Ray here present the first history of Chicago's iconic Marina City building.
"The tall residential architecture market has dramatically changed in the past 10 years. We are now discovering more and more super-tall residential projects, some as tall as 70 or 80 stories, but more importantly, the overall scale of these projects is now reaching levels seldo…
Manhattan's natural history -- Mannahatta to Manhattan: settlement to grid plan -- Land use before the Civil War -- The tenements and the skyline -- The economics of skyscraper height -- Measuring the skyline -- The bedrock myth -- The birth of Midtown -- Edifice complex? The ca…
For more than a century, Chicago's skyline has included some of the world's most distinctive and inspiring buildings. This history of the Windy City's skyscrapers begins in the key period of reconstruction after the Great Fire of 1871 and concludes in 1934 with the onset of the …