Template:Did you know nominations/Singer Building
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 19:40, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
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Singer Building
Singer Building
- ... that the Singer Building (pictured), the world's tallest building when completed, later became the world's tallest building to be demolished? Source: NY Times 2013
- ALT1:... that despite being regarded as a New York City icon, the Singer Building (pictured) was destroyed because the city would have had to find a buyer or acquire the building to save it? Source: NY Times 1967
- ALT2:... that Singer Building (pictured) architect Ernest Flagg, a noted critic of existing skyscrapers, justified taking on the project as a way of generating support for skyscraper reform? Source: Fenske, Gail (2005). "The Beaux-Arts Architect and the Skyscraper: Cass Gilbert, the Professional Engineer, and the Rationalization of Construction in Chicago and New York". In Moudry, Roberta (ed.). The American Skyscraper: Cultural Histories. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 22.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Min Sein
- Comment: More hook suggestions welcomed
5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 14:52, 17 August 2020 (UTC).
A fine expansion, well written and sourced and no copyvios (Earwig reports a few quotations, which is a non issue). Hook is interesting and sourced to the New York Times. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 15:39, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
