Using steel framing and high-speed elevators, they created their pinnacle achievement: the modern skyscraper.
The difficulty of luring tenants into such a skyscraper is only one argument against it.
For much of the 20th century, the U.S., the world's economic powerhouse, dominated the skyscraper scene.
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What he was proposing was extremely dangerous, even for a man used to those skyscraper stunts.
In the hyper-crowded skyscraper districts of Shanghai, densities can approach 125, 000 people per square mile.
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With more than 400 towering buildings, Shanghai claims to be a global leader in skyscraper construction.
Urbanization could not have occurred as rapidly without mass steel production enabling skyscraper construction.
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The firefighters made their way up the skyscraper to find and evacuate victims.
The proposed new company, Empire State Realty Trust, would combine the 1931 skyscraper with 18 other properties.
Then there's Fox Plaza, memorable for its starring role in the 1988 hit terror-in-a-skyscraper film, Die Hard.
The whole area deserves architectural distinction, at every scale street lamps or skyscraper silhouettes, public or private space.
At the skyscraper rising at ground zero, though, they're being invited to leave messages for the ages.
England's exit against Argentina meant farewell to Kobe, the skyscraper home to this travelling band for four weeks.
The Triumph, he said, is the size of three football fields or a skyscraper laid on its side.
Mr Roberts next saw Him, in 1980, as he stood praying by a giant unfinished skyscraper in Tulsa.
We flew to L.A. and met on a Monday morning at our lawyers' office, in a gleaming downtown skyscraper.
The company owns the most prominent building in Seattle, Columbia Center, a jet-black 1.5-million-square-foot skyscraper that reaches 932 feet.
If a structure were built inside, it would be six or seven stories tall, by no means a skyscraper.
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The skyscraper on Madison Avenue will be bought by the Chetrit Group, a major family-owned New York property group.
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The skyscraper will eventually reach around 800 metres (2, 624 feet) to claim the title as the world's tallest building.
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The dual use office and hotel skyscraper is currently being built in Shenzhen and should be done by 2016.
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The structure contained the first rolled iron beams, developed and manufactured by Peter Cooper in anticipation of the metal-framed skyscraper.
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The Freedom Tower, the site's tallest skyscraper, also aims to be LEED-certified, as do ever more government buildings across America.
Ditherington Flax Mill, built in 1797, is the world's first iron-framed building and regarded as the forerunner to the skyscraper.
Variety of actions in these locations is also impressive - rappelling off a skyscraper in Shanghai is a real highlight.
Images from a camera video broadcast on television showed a large fireball briefly going up around the company's iconic skyscraper.
The completion of the Walkie Talkie and the Cheesegrater will bring to an end the current cycle of skyscraper development.
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