RECORD SKYSCRAPER.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1502, 26 July 1912, Page 6

RECORD SKYSCRAPER.

All New York's wonderful skyscrapers were eclipsed on June 14, when* Hie new Woolworth BniMing, Broadway, overtook and passed the 700 ft. of its only rival, the Metropolitan Tower , Building. A few months hence the new marvel of Gothic architecture, with office apartments enough to hold the population~of a Bniall townj will soar -750 ft. into the air, and a few months later probably every room of its fifty-five storeys will be let. It is only thirty years ago that twelve-storey buildings Fere thought rnthor lofty, but by comparison with the , prodigies now erected nnd eontemplf.te.l, twelve storeys form iiicro dolls' houses. Afinr.years of work and study the steel skeleton method of construction has been perfected, and that form of building is now regarded in New York as perfectly safe, and in view of the restricted space of tho island on which New York is situated, and the* amazing value of lnnd, which necessitates the highest buildings, no other form is now deemed , possible. Skyscraper aichiteats interviewed to-dny, expressed tho btliof that it will soon lie possible to erect buildings just as high ns (he Eiffel Tower, nnd tlio Woolwor'tli Building will probably bo eclipsed within a ccuple of jeavs.