Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-15
Buildings TO SOAR
HIGHER IN FUTURE
Peak Not Yet Reached, Is
Opinion of New York
Manager.
special Dispatch to The star.


MONTREAL. Quebec, June 15-The
Office building of the future will not
only soar to great heights, but 1t will
likewise plumb the depths, going down
so far that solid rock will block further
progress or so deep that cofferdam walls
will be too bulky and expensive to keep
out the surrounding SubSurface water at
great depths under pressure.
This picture of the future ONCE build
ing, rising in a city of multilevel streets
and sidewalks was painted by Clarence
T. Coley, operating manager OF the
Equitable Building Of New York City.
1.-THE future Office building will be
erected on plots with minimum dimen-
sions of 200 feet by 200 feet and up to
whole city blocks 200 feet by 800 feet"
said Mr. Coley. Even those plots may
, not be deemed adequate for some build
ings and we will find them constructed
upon multiple blocks with the streets
running through arched tunnels as Is
done through the New York Municipal
Building over Chambers street and the
New York Central Building over Park
avenue.
Predicts Double Deck Streets.
I'VE will have double decked high
speed automobile streets: double -decked
sidewalks and street crosS-overs; sub
surface sidewalks and passage ways to
subSurface transportation facilities. All
of these follow naturally in handling
the concentration of people.
Large building lot areas fully devel-
oped by Office buildings have the fol-
lowing advantages: Greater rentabie
area per cubic volume constructed. Less
steel per rentable area produced: Less
face wall constructed per rentable area
produced. Better layout possible OF
disable space for all tenants demands.
Better internal transportation facilities.
Less overhead per unit of rentable
space. More square feet Of rentable
area served for a dollar of maintenance
labor Better and more service avail
able for use of the tenants. Greater
diversity of tenant occupancy. Greater
possibility for future tenant expansion
and greater net on capital invested.
Mr.. Coley predicted that the steel
ture will be welded by electrical arc
instead of riveted as at present.
1.-The steel will be silently framed
together. he said. 1T will be done
with q saving Of labor costs and saw
ing In the weight of steel used. Light
weight building materials will be used.
They will be flreproof, water-reSisting
and highly efficient in heat insulation
Visions Faster Age.
A new vogue of transportation,
through the air, will be taken into con-
sideration. since Mr.. Coley expects the
future ofice buildings to be equipped
with dirigible mooring mastS and O
helicopter airplane landing space on the
top of the building. Radio reception
from several broadcast channels will be
available for speeches, market quota
lions, etc., from base plugs in of1ces.
Radio will also be used for summoning
employees throughout the building, with
each employe carrying small receiver
in his pocket.
People passing into the building will
have their shoes automatically cleaned
of loose dirt by means OF vacuum
beneath grids at the entrances. All
hardware, plumbing and even the time
honored cuspidors will be plated with
either chromium or durogold. which will
require no polishing. Elevator cabs Will
have an entrance and an exit door. A
speed of 1000 feet per minute will be
made by the elevators, which will make
stops five or ten floors apart. thereby
adopting the express stop system used
in rapid transit subway systems. The
cars will be without operators. making
only definitely predetermined stops, be-
| ing dispatched at regular intervals, au-
Dramatically closing the door and to pre-"
vent closing the cab door on q passen-
ger. light rays using selenium cells will
hold open the door as a passenger en-
tiers Passengers will be counted by the
light ray getting on or of cars. and
when the net result equals car capacity
it will automatically bypass the next
regular predetermined stop.