“ RADIO CITE”

Hokitika Guardian, 4 July 1931, Page 6

“ RADIO CITE”

SGFENTIFJC OONST.RUCTION

NEW YORK PROJECT A city within a city, constructed on the. latest scientific plans, is to be built in New York. This great project is being undertaken by a body of men who have 260,000,000 dollars to “play’’ with. They expect to produce a profitable and a pleasing addition to New York. The site chosen is on land belonging to John 1). ‘Rockefeller, jnr.., between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, from Forty-eighth to Fifty-first Streets. The finished product will be known as “Radio City.”

It estimated that 125,000 toils of structural steel will be needed to carry out the plans and the excavation to the extent of 600,000 yards will be required. The lower fif ten floors of the central skyscraper will be entirely without. windows, and one story below the surface of the three-block tract will be a humming underground city connected with a. new subway. The architects' pjettures of the .main building show windows on all floors, but, soi far as the lower fifteen stories go, thdse windows will not be built, or if they are they will be stage windows, to releive the bareness — traceries which do not,cut through the walls.

The individual buildings are to be so plack'd as not to cut off one another's light and ajr, and proportion of window space in them will be considerably | larger than in older structures. Windows, of '.which there will be 25,000 in all, will be carried up as close to the ceiling as the steel beams will permit. The National Broadcasting Company will occupy the lower fifteen stories, and for its purposes the air in that section is to be ‘‘conditioned”, as engineers term it. It will be heated in winter, cooled in summer, and all times filled with the right amount of moisture. In summer the air will not simply be cooled. This, when there is much humidity in the air, results in claminess. As the temperature is reduced the moisture is precipitated and collects about the room as it gathers on a pitcher of iced water in warm air. To avoid claminess air i will be driven through a spray of cold j water, which will take out the excess j moisture. It is calculated that from j 1200 to 1500 tons of ice a day will be. required to produce the cold spray. The central building will be sixty-eight stories in height—not so tall as some New York skyscrapers, but with its 3.000,000 square feet of floor space it will exceed any other in capacity.