I’m a sucker for tiny books and I just finished making my own about New York City’s first skycraper and the world’s first curtain wall building. Ever since I learned about it in New York: A Documentary Film, I’ve been wanting to do a project on it. At 11 stories tall, the Tower Building was so ludicrous to people that they nicknamed it the Idiotic Building and waited for it to fall. The Idiotic Building: Who Is The Idiot Now? is 53 pages, less than 3 inches tall, and also includes a section on the tallest buildings in the world through history. See more images here and a link to the full book online!
May 27th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
very cool; i just finished reading “Devil in the White City” about the Chicago World Fair of 1893 and the architects responsible for the Columbian Exposition…a few of which were also involved in designing the Home Insurance Skyscraper completed in 1885, at the time Chi-town’s tallest (9 floors).