For much of the 20th century, the U.S., the world's economic powerhouse, dominated the skyscraper scene.
The firefighters made their way up the skyscraper to find and evacuate victims.
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 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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Ditherington Flax Mill, built in 1797, is the world's first iron-framed building and regarded as the forerunner to the skyscraper.
The skyscraper houses 1, 500 Sony employees, including its music and films businesses.
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Rising 95 stories to stand virtually alone in the London skyline, the skyscraper celebrates its "physical completion" with plenty of British pomp this week.
The country had (and has) space to spare, which is why the ribbon of low-rise development is the rule and the skyscraper the exception.
The main mill, built in 1797, is considered the forerunner of the skyscraper, because of its use of a cast iron frame, rather than timber.
Although its collapse potentially made architectural history, all of the thousands of tonnes of steel from the skyscraper were taken away to be melted down.
Detractors warn that the skyscraper will be a spectacular financial failure.
With its iron frame, the flax mill is considered as the direct forerunner to the skyscraper and project officer Fay Bailey said it was of "international significance".
Architects such as Dankmar Adler, Daniel Burnham, John Wellborn Root and Louis Sullivan, making use of such innovations as steel, lifts and electricity, soon developed the skyscraper.
Indeed, his main lament is that America the country that invented the modern assembly line, the skyscraper, the airplane, and the personal computer has lost its belief in the future.
It's unsurprising that the skyscraper holds such a fascination for contemporary artists, says David Van Zanten, a professor of architecture and urbanism at Northwestern University in Chicago's Evanston suburb.
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Don't let the book's length fool you, both plot lines are thrilling and fast-paced, stretching from the snow-swept prairies of Minnesota to the skyscraper heart of New York City.
"What people are concerned about is the fragility of the skyscraper in an insecure environment, because of the enormous scale of the building and potential for calamity, " Evans Joseph said.
"One thing that became pretty evident was how many artists really anthropomorphize the skyscraper, " says Michael Darling, co-curator of the exhibition and chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art.
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No one was killed or injured but dozens were evacuated from the skyscraper and nearby buildings, RIA Novosti said of the fire in the capital of the Russian republic of Chechnya.
And I cannot see how anybody could sit through that sequence with the skyscraper slowly being pulled apart and falling over, and not see the mastery of action-effects directing involved there.
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The Treasury Department last week named one of the owners of the skyscraper at 650 Fifth Avenue as a front company for an Iranian bank that has helped fund Tehran's nuclear program.
The skyscraper previously named the Freedom Tower was first conceived in 2002 as a central element of architect Daniel Libeskind's master plan for rebuilding Ground Zero in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
"It just doesn't fit downtown or feel like it's responsible, " said Charlotte Dixon, a third-generation Midlander who works in the billing department of a doctor's office and started an online petition last month opposing the skyscraper.
Contemporaries grumbled less about the visual impact of Wren's gigantic dome, than do modern protesters who object to the skyscraper on Canary Wharf in the Isle of Dogs, erected under the exceptionally loose planning regime of the Docklands Development Corporation.
And as the Pritzkers and so many others here can attest, if you love architecture there are few better places to live than in my hometown of Chicago. (Applause.) It is the birthplace of the skyscraper -- a city filled with buildings and public spaces designed by architects like Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry, who is here tonight.
Former President George Bush joined Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and other dignitaries at a news conference announcing the reopening of the tallest skyscraper in the United States.
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