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Planning and construction of 33-story McGraw-Hill publishing house in New York; functional planning produces structure adapted to highly exacting services at exceptionally low cost; mass arrangement; zoning helped planning; vibration prevented by mounting pre sses on pads of plank and cork, by placing deep knee brackets at all beam-to-column connections and using 8-in. cinder concrete floor; wall construction of alternate courses of blue terra cotta and steel cash and glass; masonry piers eliminated and windows made continuous between columns; elevator arrangement. (See also - discussion in no. 20, Nov. 12, p. 783)
Planning and construction of 33-story McGraw-Hill publishing house in New York; functional planning produces structure adapted to highly exacting services at exceptionally low cost; mass arrangement; zoning helped planning; vibration prevented by mounting pre sses on pads of plank and cork, by placing deep knee brackets at all beam-to-column connections and using 8-in. cinder concrete floor; wall construction of alternate courses of blue terra cotta and steel cash and glass; masonry piers eliminated and windows made continuous between columns; elevator arrangement. (See also - discussion in no. 20, Nov. 12, p. 783)
Building for economy and efficiency
Eng. News-Rec
Fouilhoux, J.A. (author)
Engineering News-Record ; 107
1931
6 pages
11 figs.
Article (Journal)
English
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