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INSTALLATION WALKTHROUGH





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TEN & TALLER
Introduction & Overview
Credits
Installation Walkthrough

Visualizing the Data
Grid
Map
Timeline
Historical Observations

Models of Structural Systems
Masonry: Tribune Building
Mixed Bearing Wall: Havemeyer Building
Steel Skeleton: American Surety Building

Buildings by Use (video synopsis)
Apartments
Hotels
Lofts
Offices, "Skyscraper,"
   and Slenderness

Tall versus All
Tall vs All
Tallest; What to Measure?
Tallest Buildings in 1900

History by Examples
New York City in the 1880s
Tribune Building
Western Union Building
Evening Post Building
Elevators
Central Park Apartments
The Chelsea
Tower Building
The World Building
American Surety Building
Gillender Building
Park Row Building
Netherland and Savoye
Waldorf Astoria
Mills House 1 & 2
Lofts
Asch Buidling

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