differentiated skyscrapers from earlier tall secular buildings, such as those in the Old Town of Edinburgh. Development of these skyscrapers was concentrated...
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This list of early skyscrapers details a range of tall, commercial buildings built between 1880 and the 1930s, predominantly in the United States cities...
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high-rise buildings. Skyscrapers may host offices, hotels, residential spaces, and retail spaces. One common feature of skyscrapers is having a steel frame...
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Early Chicago Skyscrapers is a nomination comprising nine buildings in Chicago's Loop district for inclusion on UNESCO's World Heritage Site list. Submitted...
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The Skyscrapers (or just Skyscrapers) were a professional wrestling tag team in World Championship Wrestling in 1989 and 1990 in three distinct forms with...
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Hall or 1908 with the Singer Building), skyscrapers have consistently been the tallest buildings. Before skyscrapers, tower blocks reached at various times...
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York City, built in the 1920s 1932 skyscrapers O'Keeffe made about 25 drawings and paintings of New York City skyscrapers and cityscapes between 1925 and...
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Modern architecture (redirect from Skyscraper style)
Building by Cass Gilbert (1912) At the end of the 19th century, the first skyscrapers began to appear in the United States. They were a response to the shortage...
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New York skyscrapers may refer to: Skyscrapers identified in List of tallest buildings in New York City New York skyscraper paintings of Georgia O'Keeffe...
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List of tallest buildings in Toronto (redirect from Toronto skyscrapers)
2023, Toronto has constructed 81 skyscrapers and has a further 36 under construction. Toronto also has 92 skyscrapers that are either approved or in the...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Skyscrapers in New York City. Diagram of New York City skyscrapers on SkyscraperPage 100 years of New York skyline on...
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Albania List of tallest structures in Serbia List of tallest buildings in the Balkans List of tallest buildings in Europe SkyscraperCity — Albanian Forum...
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Rand McNally Building (category Skyscraper office buildings in Chicago)
of the City National Bank & Trust Company. Early skyscrapers Korom, Joseph J. (2008). The American skyscraper, 1850-1940 : a celebration of height. Boston:...
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Wall Street (section Early years)
became centered on Wall Street. During the 20th century, several early skyscrapers were built on Wall Street, including 40 Wall Street, once the world's...
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film was shot in the early morning hours in New York City. It captured skyscrapers which, by the late 1920s had become a global trademark of the city and...
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Wainwright Building (category Skyscraper office buildings in St. Louis)
is considered to be one of the first aesthetically fully expressed early skyscrapers. It was designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan and built between...
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has the plumb line hung from the top of an inverted T shape. The early skyscrapers used heavy plumb bobs, hung on wire in their elevator shafts.[further...
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economic downturns. Business cycles and skyscraper construction correlate in such a way that investment in skyscrapers peaks when cyclical growth is exhausted...
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Federal Coffee Palace (section Early skyscraper)
Palladian architecture styled arch flanked by vault archway openings. Skyscrapers by contemporary definition are 10 storeys tall and exceed 50 metres....
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List of tallest buildings in Chicago (redirect from Skyscrapers in Chicago)
has media related to Skyscrapers in Chicago. Architecture of Chicago List of Chicago Landmarks List of cities with most skyscrapers List of tallest buildings...
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Tacoma Building (Chicago) (category Skyscraper office buildings in Chicago)
cause of its obsolescence to be the building's inefficient layout. Early skyscrapers [1] Copper Country Architects Leland M. Roth, in: Joan Marter (Ed...
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Seven Sisters (Moscow) (redirect from Stalin skyscrapers)
romanized: Stalinskije vysotki, lit. 'Stalin's high-rises') are a group of seven skyscrapers in Moscow designed in the Stalinist style. They were built from 1947...
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List of tallest buildings in the Southern Hemisphere (category Skyscrapers)
American high-rises, but most new skyscrapers in the region have been built since 1990. As part of a global boom in skyscraper construction, countries such...
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for small manufacturers, mercantile buildings, office buildings and early skyscrapers. The district was designated a Chicago Landmark on July 9, 2003. "Jewelers...
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List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong (redirect from Hong kong skyscrapers)
tall skyscrapers to rise in Kowloon, such as The Masterpiece, Victoria Dockside and The Cullinan, all of which exceed 200 m (656 ft). Skyscrapers also...
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Wilder Building (category Skyscraper office buildings in Rochester, New York)
considered Rochester's first modern skyscraper, and is considered to be among the oldest of the early skyscrapers. It was designed by noted Rochester...
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architecture and modern skyscrapers can make it hard to get approval from local authorities to construct new skyscrapers. Building skyscrapers in an old and famous...
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more skyscrapers than any other Australian city, the tallest being Australia 108, situated in Southbank. Melbourne's newest planned skyscraper, Southbank...
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Metropolitan Building (Minneapolis) (category Skyscraper office buildings in Minneapolis)
city and across the state. The building is considered the city's first skyscraper, with 12 stories and standing 218 feet (66 m) tall. Small observation...
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mercantile buildings along with many early 20th-century skyscrapers, including the 1915 Custom House Tower. The area is an early example of urban planning, in...
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