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new Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles begs for
better surroundings.
March
25,2004 - Los Angeles
Ric
Burns’s New York documentary focused some of its time
on the architecture of the city. More specifically, the
period in the early 1900s when the tallest building in the
world changed owners multiple times, from the Egyptians
(The Great Pyramid of Giza), to a number of New Yorkers,
as steel became a major component pushing the city upward.
In one section of the documentary, the narrators likened
the buildings to advertisements of the company who built
them. Of course this applies when almost everyone in the
city can see the building, such as the Chrysler Building,
or in its time, The Woolworth Building. The documentary
goes on to describe how people would take lunch and watch
the tall buildings, waiting for them to just fall over.
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