Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1930, Page 88

~THE: SUNDA¥Y. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C;. FEBRUARY- 16, 1930. ing the MOUNTAINS to The city lmdiné field of the future. Its hollow legs are mammoth office buildings, its surface forms a lofty roo[ CAN civilisation is rapidily mov- near its present city hall—a bullding the regional plan committee says should be at least 1,000 feet in height, and should with two banks of 100 elevators each ‘the floors above. Its side walls would come dcim Sush to the curbs of the surrounding streets—for, of ‘course, it would cover a whole city block-—andthe" 'gidewalks would“go in arcades set-inside “the walls of “the 'building. Little stone would be used in™the'building's construction. a combination of steel and glass would be used, giving every room in the building about twice as much direct sun- light as the average office gets today. Perhaps it will never be completed as planned. But the drawings that have been made show what architects consider to be perfectly practical now or in the very near future. From an office building housing 30,- 000 people it is only a step to that supersky- scraper of the architect’s dreams—a skyscraper own A Faniastic Vision of a City of the Future When One-Hundred-and-Fifty-Story Skyscrapers Will Combine Residences, Schools, Churches, Theaters, Stores and Offices All Under the Same Roof. us say, around 1970 A.D.—would get up in the morning, take a before-breakfast stroll on one of the upper terraces 1,000 feet above the street, and then step into an elevator and be whisked down to his office 800 feet below, When it came time for lunch he would get into another elevator and shoot up 15 stories ““The Lincoln Building, now Fising on Neid' York's famious Forty-second street. * L] above four city blocks. .would partially replace the auiomobile as a. of locomotion. ‘RCHITECTS have discovered recently that “ 4% there is almost no limit to the heights present conditions 75 the economic limit for scheme is perfectly feasible, and that the safety’ devices which would prevent the two city mountains of the future very likely will in- clude, e, selected fou blocks as the units for . He, ¢ r c “'Hits’ buflding. “On eaclg ‘block riscs a huge sky-