 A critical and popular success, the Flatiron was likened to the Parthenon of Ancient Greece and became a New York icon.The construction of the Singer Tower was announced by the company in 1906, who intended to produce the tallest skyscraper in the world.The company already had several low-rise buildings in New York that the tower would be incorporated into and planned to rent out the bottom half of the tower to tenants to subsidize their use of the upper half.