NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1927, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

.MAMMOTH SKYSCRAPEI!. OFFICES FOB 30.000. NEW YORK. Hoc. 22. New York is promised by t!io spring of 1929 a “mammoth super-skyscraper - ’ 110 storeys high and 1.208 ft above the street level which will provide office accommodation for 30,009 people. This is more than three times as high as the top of St. Paul’s Cathedral. I .ondon, and nearly seven times the h- ight of the Nelson column in Trafalgarsquare. According to the plans filed yesterday the super-skyscraper will he erected between Bth and 9th avenues on 42nd street, nob far from Timessqijare. It will he 3(5 storeys higher than the Wolworth building in New York. It is to he known as the Larkin Tower, and is to cost £3,000,000. plus £900.000. the purchase price of the site having an acreage of 50.000 square fegt. The 'builders expert a yearly rental of £OOO,OOO.

The super-skvseraper is to rise twelve storeys from the street level without a set-back. From the thirteenth to the roof of the eighteenth storey there will be a series of three set-backs, whence will start the seven-phase tow-

er. Sixtv high-speed lifts will servo its tenant’s. Two of {ltem will be expresses ascending directly to the eightvsecond floor, whence passengers will he rtuiveyerl to four shuttle lifts to the 110th storey. Sixty lifts will be arranged in ten “banks” centred in the budding from north and south, ensuring, it is claimed. the greatest economy in space with the greatest efficiency in service. The three top floors of the tower will he given over entirely to sightseeing purposes. . Excavations for the foundations will be in rock 48ft below the street level. The building is to rest on heavy grillage embedded in an 18ft slab nf reinTorced concrete anchored to the solid rock.