The Rise of the Mile-High Building


Updated May 16, 2015 ● 896 views
The Rise of the Mile-High Building

The mile-high skyscraper makes a little more sense to build now than it did when Frank Lloyd Wright designed one nearly 60 years ago. Wright imagined, on the fringes of Chicago, a habitable 528-story sundial called the Illinois. That idea wasn’t buildable then; its successor would still be risky, financially ruinous, slow to construct, and inefficient to operate.

via nymag.com

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