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