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Show LONDON SHUNS SKYSCRAPER American Architects Get No Encouragement Encour-agement to Extend Building to Great Height. London. Tlie old question of whether or not London is to have skyscrapers sky-scrapers is being revived because of tlie hidi price of property in the business busi-ness section and the lack of space in oflice buildings. Generally speaking, London does not like tall buildings. Percy Tubbs, past president of tlie Society of Architects, declared that if the skyscraper was to come it would be necessary to widen the streets. '-Space in London, however, Is not 1 so scarce as it is in New York, which is an island," he said. i American architects who are le-re erecting a huge apartment store have. repeatedly asked permission to extend the main building high enough to accommodate ac-commodate not only the present business busi-ness of the concern, but to provide for : the future, and have met with no en- I courageiaettt. |