TALLEST SKYSCRAPER.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20743, 14 June 1929, Page 16

TALLEST SKYSCRAPER.

Within a year there -will he standing among the peaks of Wail street the tallest and largest skyscraper in the world. This structure, to ho known as the Bank of Manhattan Building, is to he A feet high —3(5 feet higher than the Chrysler Building. now being erected in 42nd street, and 44 feet higher than the Woolworth Building (says the New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph). It will occupy all the block bounded by Wall street, William street, Pine street, and Nassau street, except the sites of the Sub-Trea-sury, the Assay Office, and the Bank of America buildings. It is to be of a modernised French Gothic design, and the 63 stories arhich make up the main body of the building will be surmounted by a number of additional stories and an observation tower. At the pinnacle of the tower will be a silvered cut-glass finial to reflect the sun in prismatic colours. The upper portion of the building will be floodlighted at night to serve as a beacon for aeroplanes and ships at sea. The architects of the building are Messrs H. Craig, Severance, and Yauso Matsui, with Messrs Shreve and Lamb as consulting engineers. The builders are Stnrrett Brothers Incorporated. Although the work of demolishing the old structure on the site has not yet begun, the building is to be ready for occupation on May 1, 1930, The construction of the foundations of the new building and demolition of the old buildings will go on simultaneously.