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A skyscraper is a large, continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least 100 meters or 150 meters in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Historically, the term first referred to buildings with between 10 and 20 stories when these types of buildings began to be constructed in the 1880s. Skyscrapers may host offices, hotels, residential spaces, and retail spaces.
For nearly half a century, from 1931 through 1972, the 1,454-foot Empire State Building held the title of the tallest building in the world. Since then, the world has come a…
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Over fifty years after completion, the John Hancock Center, designed by American architecture firm Skidmore Owings & Merrill, has established itself as one of the world’s most recognized skyscrapers and…
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The John Ferraro Building, headquarters for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, is an iconic building in the City of Los Angeles. It was designed by the firm…
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The Seagram Building on Park Avenue between 52nd and 53rd streets was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1958. The building’s particular conception and construction were…
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German photographer Michael Wolf captured in his series “Architecture of Density”, images that acutely acknowledge the landscape’s overwhelming concentration of soaring buildings and skyscrapers in Hong Kong. In art there’s no…
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Zaha Hadid completed in 2015 one of her major projects in China – a trio of curved towers that respond to the city’s flows and which look like giant pebbles.
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The Neruda Tower is a mixed-use office building designed by the Japanese firm SANAA located in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
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