LANDSCRAPER

landscraper: translation

n.

An imposingly long building, particularly one that houses a commercial enterprise, such as a factory or hotel. Also:land-scraper.

To put up almost a mile of space-age, super-luxury grandstand, including a four-block, 11-storey hotel, within 12 months — the "longestlandscraperin the world" — and then to establish two different racing surfaces, one turf, one the artificial Tapeta, which won universal approval, is an amazing achievement.

—Brough Scott, " Lloyd Webbers win Dubai millions: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/racing/article7078768.ece,"The Sunday Times, March 29, 2010

But the super structure already has been panned by local author and architectural critic James Howard Kunstler, who has called the building a "landscraper" the size of an aircraft carrier, and compared it unfavorably to a "gigantic brick Yule log" and Darth Vader's mask.

—Dennis Yusko, " Skidmore's sounds of music: http://blog.timesunion.com/saratogaseen/skidmores-sounds-of-music/3385/,"The Times-Union, December 28, 2009

Another aspect of the towns we build today is the use of three types of building : the bungalow, the skyscraper and thelandscraper(factory) spread out all over the landscape in loose functions of suburb, downtown and industrial zone.

—City Magazine: http://books.google.com/books?id=mivkAAAAMAAJ&q=%22landscraper, January 1, 1986 (approx)

Landscraperis the horizontal equivalent of askyscraper, a term that has had a fun ride through the English language.In the late 18th century it referred to a kind of tall sail, but was subsequently used (with varying degrees of jocularity) to refer to a tall horse, a tall person, a person riding a tall bicycle, a tall hat, and even a tall tale. The "tall building" sense first appeared in the 1880s.

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Housing and Architecture