new york gothic

I'm not sure if Cass Gilbert designed this skyscraper in New York, but he did design this one:

I hope the U.S. never has another high rise boom. I think that buildings between 400 and 800 feet tall do a good enough job of displaying corporate ego and making a developer rich. Once you get past 1000 feet you're investing more money in infrastructure than usable floor space. (This is yet one more claim, in a long history of claims, unsupported by evidence, that towers of ilium is wont to make. Check in again in a few days for more unsupported claims--we're having a special this week)