There’s a phenomenon that I think of as “life imitiates art imitates life imitates art…ad infinitium”. A work of art – a drawing, a painting, a movie – is base don reality and augments, making it look better than it does in real life, and then people change what they’re doing to match the art, and the cycle begins again.
From 1919, Cass Gilbert doodles his deisgn for the New York Life Insurance Building at Madison Square:
From 1921, Hugh Ferris renders a proposde deisgn for an unbuilt skyscraper disscussed for a site two blocks from New York Life.
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