Terra-cotta Workshop Attracts Top Architecture Firms.

About the towers of Manhattan in a February 1913 article in this magazine, critic Montgomery Schuyler extolled the virtues of building with terra-cotta, focusing particularly on the plastic nature of the inexpensive material to create the elaborate decoration on the Woolworth Building, completed that same year. Most teams used the opportunity to produce intricate cladding panels, though SHoP developed interlocking units for structural terra-cotta to create an arch, and KT's team, led by partner Billie Faircloth, collaborated with composer Joshua Stamper to produce music using fluted terra-cotta pipes. [Extracted from the article]