The citizens of Florence are justly proud of their city’s handsome sky line with its craggy palaces ... waved banners denouncing the modern “skyscrapers.” They stopped to boo at particularly ...

Our next Art Deco Centenary profile looks at American architect Raymond Hood, whose knack for skyscrapers led to him being branded the "brilliant bad boy of architecture". Hood's buildings include ...

we spotlight the Chrysler Building in New York – one of America's first art deco skyscrapers and the world's first supertall skyscraper. Completed in 1930, the skyscraper was designed by ...