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Show SAYS SKYSCRAPERS SHOULD BE SMALL Expert Presents New Building Ideas for Berlin Partly in Imitation of , American Cities. HGRLIN, Jan. 27. Berlin should have smaJl skyscrapers. In th opinion of Professor Pro-fessor Ousta-v Schlmjvff of the technical University of ALx-la-Chapelle, who, In an address before the society of Berlin architects on plans for a central railway station and the cutting of new streets leading to It, pointed out that the tlm had come for putting up higher buildings! in Berlin, especially in the more centrai districts. The population, he saJd, has for years been drifting away from those . districts and they -are more and mor given up to business. With this transformation trans-formation has come an Increased demand for office room and higher buildings. Schimpff referred to the success of the skyscraper In the United States ao a ground for resorting to It here. Ho la not. however, in favor of converting entire en-tire streets into canyons of tall houses, He would, instead, put the skyscraper only on the corner lots, or occasionally between lots. In order to secure a greater abundance of air and light. And he would not give permits for buildings of more than 130 to 160 feet high. |