The Making of an Icon” is a fascinating and pretty entertaining new coffee table book devoted to this terra cotta mainstay.

Accordingly, the late architectural historian Carl Condit used the term “proto-skyscraper”to describe the Home Insurance Building, saying it paved the way for steel-framed skyscrapers that ...

Despite their drawbacks, skyscrapers embody the excitement of urban life, a quality that artist John Marin captured in his prints and watercolors of the Woolworth Building in 1913.

Regular readers of this column know I advocate preserving historic buildings whenever possible. One of the things that makes Massachusetts unique is its buildings, which reflect its rich history.

The 1,046-foot-tall Chrysler Building, completed in May of 1930, was the pinnacle of both the then-unnamed Art Deco period and the skyscraper boom that rapidly transformed New York City’s skyline.