It revolutionised the world of architecture and ushered in an era of ever taller buildings: Chicago's Home Insurance Building is considered to have been the world's first skyscraper. This is its story ...
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 ...
Today the LPC approved Downtown Brooklyn’s Skyscraper Historic District, a collection of 21 architecturally distinctive office buildings constructed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We’ve ...
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