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Skyscraper (The Landmark Library)

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Last updated on Jun 13, 2026 05:11 PM

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Category Brains & Noble > Non-fiction

Condition new

SKU BN-48952

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Chicago’s beautiful Reliance Building, fourteen storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root. In its construction metal frame, large areas of plate glass, fire-proof brick and terracotta cladding it pioneers all the key elements of twentieth-century high-rise architecture, and many of the tenets of Modernism. Cruickshank reflects on the extraordinary architectural, artistic and engineering world of the 1890s and its great figures such as Louis Sullivan, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Otto Wagner. He looks forward to the Reliance building’s immediate progeny, such as the 1902 Flatiron Building in New York and to the hubristic high-rise architecture of the twenty-first century.

This is also the story of Gilded Age Chicago, which was burned to the ground in 1871. The city corrupt, violent and fabulously wealthy was ready to try anything, even revolutionary forms of architecture.