SILVER HOUSES
NEW YORK NOVELTY. GLASS AND ALUMINIUM. Women in Chicago will be the firSt to keep house in all-metal flats. On the North Lake front this year a building of seventeen storeys will arise, which, on completion. will blaze like polished silver. The W^lls will be of glass and an aluininluni alloy, noncorrosive and non-rustlng. These walls will be three and a half inches thiclc, only one-fourth the thickness of ordinary briek houses, yet they will have heat insulating qualities equal to those of a brick wall 36 inches thick. The use of metal buildings is nof • new (says the correspondent of the Daily Mail at New York.) In the sunlight one famous skyscraper in New York shines like molten silver. What will be the tallest building in -the world, the new Empire. which is now rising on Fifth Avenue, will have a steel alloy for its walls also. But Chicago claims to be the first with an all-metal group of flats
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 285, 27 July 1932, Page 6
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163SILVER HOUSES Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 285, 27 July 1932, Page 6
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