Skyscraper

Kenneth Jackson contends in Crabgrass Frontier, that the development of the skyscraper with the telephone and elevator emphasized the vigor of the American city in the 19th century, “but the extraordinary prosperity and vitality of most urban cores between 1890 and 1950 cannot be understood without reference to the streetcar systems.” Unlike cable cars or the railroad, streetcars highlighted the business district and connected the people to the heart of the city. The streetcar enabled…

Gravity, the most stubborn of all rules. No matter how high the jump or long the flight, Gravity pulls everything back down to earth. One can deny the evedince of gravity all around him, but none the less, if he leaps off a skyscraper in defiance, gravity will remorselessly take his life. Just as gravity exists, though one can deny it, so does God. God an all encompassing create and ruler of all things, created a ancient book written by many authors over thousands of years, who amazingly,…

amusement park was voluminous like the inside of an mansion. Entering the amusement park I decided which roller coaster to ride. Love is a roller coaster because of the unbalance emotion you go through during the events. Checking my height I was skyscraper. My head was spinning because of all the captivating rides, and one of the rides were Iron laced worked magnificent and most recognised structure in the world. Deciding to chose a ride…

Chemistry As Carl Sagan once said, “Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water. Together, they make a placid and non-poisonous substance, table salt. Why each of these substances has the properties it does is a subject called chemistry.” Chemistry involves many things, from atoms to elements and their functions. It is a wide field of science with an extensive early and modern history. It also…

Alexander Jackson Davis During the mid nineteenth century America, American renowned architect, Alexander Jackson Davis, began a new revival of architecture known as Gothic Revival. Gothic Revival is a style of architecture that used traditional styles of thirteenth century Gothic architecture such as; ornamented facades, high pitched roofs, and pointed arches to revive medieval architecture and applied to a modern time. Alexander Jackson Davis was one of the most successful and influential…

By no accident, “Kyivproekt,” chose avant-garde style to reconstruct the city central street, Khreshchatyk, in 1954. The main building, a skyscraper, hotel “Moskva,” was built on the place of the first Kyiv’s skyscraper by Ginsburg (1912-1944) ruined in 1944. The reconstruction project was led by Anatol Dobrovolsky, who became the city architect four years before. In 1950, he received Stalin’s award of II range for “technology…

The problems or conditions in the late 19th century were getting worse and worse and the problems needed solutions. Some conditions where high buildings could not get higher bridges were weak railroad rails were weak so the Bessemer process was brought to America and started to mass produce steel to make them all stronger. The triangle shirtwaist factory fire was a big tragedy but the labor unions pushed for stricter laws in workplace safety. the immigrants who came to our country who were…

Louis H. Sullivan breathed life into American architecture in the modern era just before the 20th century. Regarded as the spiritual father of the skyscraper he helped define the age though this framework by creating a purely American style form an American philosophy. According to Sullivan one must know the artist to understand his art, and due to this much of this paper is dedicated to his world view. Despite the fact that transcendentalists believe being with nature presents the greatest…

more than a pile of rocks and wood, if you’re not comfortable with it. Real Estate is basically our way of improving our old lifestyle of “survival of the fittest” to a more civilized and modern way of sharing houses, land and even commercial skyscrapers. As we see now, the cliche of seeing people in movies being evicted of their houses because of either unpaid rent, social discrepancy, or maybe more untold reasons, keeps happening. Some may not even know these events exists, but what matters…

As I struggle to sit comfortably in my hard-as-a-rock seat on my thirteen-hour Amtrak ride, I watch the skyscrapers in New York fade into worndown factories in Philadelphia, which turn into monstrous monuments in Washington, D.C. I drift in and out of sleep to the sound of Khalid's soothing voice as I make my way to my family's new home. My life changed drastically during the Summer of 2017. I graduated from high school. I moved from a quaint suburb in Connecticut to Charlotte, North Carolina,…