Clone,
Sweet Clone
No. 7 of 12
by Carl Yadkin, Architecture Editor
For a while in the early 20th century, the Woolworth Building in Manhattan was the tallest
building in the world. In the 1970s, when approached by a bank for a new headquarters,
Philip Johnson did his homage to the Woolworth Building (with a bizarre but wholly
unambiguous nod also to Amsterdam's guild houses: note the small peaked building at the
left of the tower--that's the banking lobby).
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