The late 1800s landmark was said to be "the largest and finest office building in the United States" upon its completion.

The iconic spire of the New York City landmark was originally intended for something far more futuristic.

In the mid-1880s, Chicago pulled off something nobody else had tried before by building a tall, metal-framed office tower called the Home Insurance Building. We’d call that a skyscraper today. It didn ...

Chicago is the birthplace of the first the Ferris wheel, the Twinkie, gospel music and one invention that towers above all others -- the skyscraper.

Ever wondered where the world's oldest skyscraper is? Chicago and New York were the first to develop skyscraper cities and served as a precedent (and inspiration) for countless others around the world ...

One of Bertrand Goldberg’s twin Marina City towers being built in Chicago. When completed in 1968, the towers were the tallest reinforced concrete structures in the world. (Courtesy Geoffrey Goldberg) ...

Grand Central Terminal is not the only New York landmark celebrating its one-hundredth birthday this year. The Woolworth Building, Manhattan’s gothic-style “Cathedral of Commerce,” was also built in ...

The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. As a structural marvel that breaks the traditional limits on mankind’s persistent ambition to ...

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