1946 - Architecture, Real Estate

Architecture, Real Estate

Inter-Continental Hotel Corp. is founded by Pan American Airways, which enters the hotel business at the request of the U.S. State Department.

War-torn Europe and Japan rebuild their cities out of the rubble left by the worst destruction thus far in the history of warfare. Some European cities such as Warsaw will be reconstructed in part from photographs to resemble their prewar appearance, Tokyo will be rebuilt very much as it was after the 1923 earthquake.

Window-unit air conditioners made by Carrier Corp. and a flock of competitors proliferate as more Americans discover that they can live in places like Las Vegas, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C. that were once almost uninhabitable in summer; New Yorkers can remain in their apartments through July and August without going to summer resorts.