A GIGANTIC SKYSCRAPER.
A gigantic skyscraper, to he completed in New York by January, 1915, will outrival, as regards size, all other office buildings in the world (says ;i New York correspondent). The new Equitable building—which is to occupy the site of the old building, which was burned down last January —will not be as tall as the Wcolwortb. Singer, or Metropolitan towers, but its office floor area of 1,100,000 square feet will be greater than that of any two skyscrapers put top-other. The new Equitable will have 37 storeys in the shape of a huge H, and will be about 500 ft high. The cost of the ground is said to be £2,700,000, and oi the building £2,800,000. There will be 44 passenger and two freight lifts. One of the most remarkable features will be two brick walls, each four acres in area, which will extend from the first floor to the thirty-seventh without a single window or other aperture.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3768, 1 March 1913, Page 3
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161A GIGANTIC SKYSCRAPER. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3768, 1 March 1913, Page 3
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