Movie Poster Get On It, 1923 ©DR

Photochrom postcard published by the Detroit Photographic Company, 1902-1905 © Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Bellini, Construction site  ©Franklin Azzi

Wastepaper basket, Josepf Hoffmann, 1980s ©DR

Start of construction of the Aldred Building, 1929  ©Archives of the City of Montreal

Demolition of the New York World Building, George Browne Post, 1955 ©DR ©DR

Study of the northeast facade of the Velasca Tower, BBPR, 1956 ©Centre Pompidou

Pirelli Tower, Gio Ponti, Milano, 1960  ©Paolo Monti

Extract from the film Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927  ©DR

Film programme produced for the London premiere at the Marble Arch Pavilion on March 21, 1927  ©Peter Harrington Rare Books

From My Window at An American Place, Gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz, 1931 ©Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image of the Vercors Towers, Mont-Blanc and Belledone, Grenoble, 1967 ©DR

The City of Ambition, heliogravure, Alfred Stieglitz, 1910  © Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt

Reconstruction of the Perret Tower, photograph, Claudel André, 1947-53 ©DR

Architecture magazine, vol. 43, no. 9, 1930  ©City of Architecture & Heritage

Exhibition “Tutto Ponti, Gio Ponti Archi-Designer”, MAD, 2018 ©Luc Boegly

Metropolis, French poster for the film Metropolis, Boris Konstantinovitch Bilinsky, 1927 ©DR

Old and New New York, Gelatin silver print, Alfred Stieglitz, 1910  ©DR

Singer Building, Edwin Levick, 1916  ©DR

The Home Insurance Building, Chicago, 1884-1885  © Bnf

The New York World Building, George Browne Post, 1900s  ©DR

Pirelli Tower, Gio Ponti, Milano, 1960 ©DR

Extract from the film Metropolis, Fritz Lang, 1927  ©DR

Model of the Velasca Tower, BBPR, 1950-58  ©Centre Pompidou

Tour du Midi, 1966 ©DR