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Show Ornamental Skyscraper. New York correspondence Pittsburg Post: In an up-town side street a tall building is approaching completion and will be the first to exhibit a peculiarity of construction which has often been urged here as the best means of mitigating miti-gating the skyscraper's ugliness. Thii new building towers above its neighbors, neigh-bors, and under ordinary einum-stances einum-stances yards of unadorned brick would face the spectator. But the owner and architects have adopted the plan imposed by U.w in Paris and have decorated the sides of the building. This ornamentation, which is simple and tasteful, conforms in style to the principal facades of the building, although al-though not nearly so elaborate. If all the New York's towering buildings had been treated in the same fashion, objection ob-jection to the skyscraper would be less pronounced than It is today. |