IN PRAISE OF SKYSCRAPERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9304, 21 March 1907, Page 2

IN PRAISE OF SKYSCRAPERS.

Sir Aston Webb, former president of the British Institute of Architects, who has been on & visit to Amerka } spoke in praise of the development of architecture' in New York, Boston, and several other cities^ paying especial tribute to New York's "skysempecs." believe," he Temafrked, "if an eaathquake were to visit New York it would, pass through it better than would any large city of the world. With these skyscrapers, Wihich. stand the feet well, the danger would be Teduced to a minimum.

Sir Aston Webb considered the best American architeobuire quite equal to the English, particularly in. private housies 1 .