Scale, done well, isn’t just bigger than what came before. It’s something different altogether. Take the Chrysler Building in New York City, for instance. It’s an example of an early skyscraper, an Art Deco classic design.  At 77 stories, it may seem like just a taller version of a 3-story building, but it’s not. Completed in 1930, it took advantage of a technical revolution that was key to the skyscraper era: innovations in the infrastructure on which tall buildings could be built.Traditional methods would not work at a much taller scale. In order to support the greater height, the walls would be so thick that there would be almost no interior space.  To read this article in full, please click her
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