QUARTER MILE HIGH

Waikato Independent, Volume XXIX, Issue 3157, 7 November 1929, Page 2

QUARTER MILE HIGH

PROPOSED SKYSCRAPER. MASS OF GRANITE, BRICK AND MARBLE. An office building of 150 storeys—a piie of steel, granite, brick and marble —a quarter of a mile high and two blocks square—is to be erected near the old City Hall in New York; The proposed building is the latest if not the final step in the race for building height supremacy revived last year after a quiet of 15 years. Towering 1000 ft above the level of Broadway, the roof of more than an acre will be used as a landing' field for aeroplanes. 'The structure will be three times as high as the Wool worth, and twice as high as the 80-storcy structure ex-Gov-ernor Alfred E. Smith's Empire State Construction Company plans to erect on the site of the old Waldorf Astoria in Fifth Avenue. Half-a-dozen of the great skyscrapers of the city can easily be stowed away within the super-skyscrap-er. It is estimated that it will house a population of 50,000. It will involve a readjustment of the transit system of the city. .The cost of the building is estimated at between £15,000,000 and £20,000,000. It will be the highest man-made tower in the world, dwarfing the impressive 1000 ft Eiffel Tower in Paris, which is the loftiest structure that human energy has thus far produced. Mr Charles F. Noyes, who is to erect the structure, found it difficult to pay rent for a small office in “The Swamps'' quarter of a century ego. Now ho controls a real estate concern that has branches in every large city in the United .States.