sky-scraper

The true sky-scraper is beautiful — and this is the reluctant admission of a man who dislikes humanity-festering cities.

The House Beautiful 2010

- The Mall of America is probably bigger, but this was more condensed into a sky-scraper situation so the shops just seemed to go up and up and up!

Archive 2009-09-01 Will 2009

The true sky-scraper is beautiful, and it is beautiful in so far as it is true.

The House Beautiful 2010

- The Mall of America is probably bigger, but this was more condensed into a sky-scraper situation so the shops just seemed to go up and up and up!

Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia Will 2009

Garthwaite and the young officer fell into an animated conversation over the difference between so-called modern warfare and the present street-fighting and sky-scraper fighting that was taking place all over the city.

Chapter 23: The People of the Abyss 2010

A thing must be true, or it is not beautiful, any more than a painted wanton is beautiful, any more than a sky-scraper is beautiful that is intrinsically and structurally light and that has a false massiveness of pillars plastered on outside.

The House Beautiful 2010

And in the meantime he studied the procession of life as it streamed up and down eighteen sky-scraper floors in his elevator car.

Amateur Night 2010

The sky-scraper was like any other, a slender tower of steel and glass, totally without embellishment or dash.

La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

If you believe that fire alone can make explose a sky-scraper and make it succumb to its foundation demolition style and in total contradiction with the first law of thermodynamics, you have a problem.

Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 2009

If you believe that fire alone can make explose a sky-scraper and make it succumb to its foundation demolition style and in total contradiction with the first law of thermodynamics, you have a problem.

Obama Wins the Nobel Peace Prize? 2009