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Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes

By Brian Potter · Construction Physics · January 2025
Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes
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"Everything put into the building that is unnecessary, every cubic foot that is used for purely ornamental purposes beyond that needed to express its use and to make it harmonize with others of its class, is a waste — is, to put it in plain English, perverting someone’s money — George Hill, commercial real estate expert, 1904"

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