2024 is the centenary year of Frank Lloyd Wright’s much lamented Imperial Hotel in Tokyo - commemorative exhibitions have taken place in Tok...

Property development is an occupation that attracts more than its fair share of swindlers and confidence tricksters.  A favoured strategy is...

This is a conventional promotional postcard - an invitation to admire the inordinate scale of the Larkin Factories activity and the vast ext...

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When Stevan Dohanos painted a monumental vision of a Wayne Gas Pump for a feature in Fortune magazine in 1937, he knew exactly what he w...

At the time (1909 -1913) of these postcards this was the world’s tallest building . It has a complicated history of building, rebuilding...