Iron+&+Steel

He leaves this sentence as an open comment to let us think about whether old cast iron buildings disappear because of the new skyscrapers or the new esthetics did. Personally I think both did. New skyscrapers certainly outshined old iron buildings for being bigger and monumental. Cast iron buildings felt short. But that’s not the only reason, at least for me, esthetics were as well a very important factor. The beauty is what catches people’s attention. New constructions had a very different esthetics that caught the customers and user eye and cast iron constructions stopped being impressive to the point they “died out”.
 * “The old cast iron buildings died out. I'm not really sure whether the new skyscrapers killed them, or the new esthetics.”**