HANGING GARDENS
The modern equivalent of the banging gardens of Babylon will be found covering the roofs and terraces of Kadio City when the ten structures of that 250,000,000 dollars scheme are completed, officials of tho Metropolitan Square Corporation announced. It was estimated that not only would more than 17,500,000 dollars' worth of land be loft open for beautificatiou, but between 250,000 and 500,000 dollars would be spent for landscape gardening.
Tho garden plans call for seven acres of landscaping with a 40-foot waterfall, fountains, pools, trees, flower beds, and statuary. Consideration also is being given to covering the outside of the buildings with ivy. An acre is to be occupied by a sunken plaza with a 20----foot fountain in the centre. -Forty feet above tho roof of the 1(5----story wing of l.ho centre building is to be a waterfall with a 50----foot spillway and cascades ending in a pool about SO by 25 feet on tho roof. Trees and shrubbery will form the background.
On the roof of the centre skyscraper it is planned to. have an observation platform 835 feet above the street, with aivopen esplanade about .30 by 50 feet. An open terrace 20 feet below will be 70 by 100 feet adjoining an enclosed observation gallery. Part of the sixty-sixth floor will be used as a roof cafe or club, glassed in to permit au unobstructed view.
Bids for the three chief buildings have been received and contracts will be let soon, it was said. The largest of the three calls Cor a 66-story office building with a 16-story wing, which will take up most of the centre block, bounded by Fifth and Sixth avenues and. Forty-ninth and Fiftieth streets,
The second unit is the International Music Hall planned for the west half of the block between Fiftieth and Fifty-first streets. The third unit is the sound motion picture theatre for the block between Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth streets. The theatres are scheduled'to be .finished by Ist October, 1932, and the office building by the'following spring.
At an inquiry the captain of this
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 124, 21 November 1931, Page 22
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