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 ...
Main Street, downtown Lexington, circa summer 1938. Rails run down the street, but around this time streetcar service was discontinued in Lexington. Like most American cities, as roads were improved ...
As the first building to be built from an iron frame, the Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings in England is a forerunner of all iron- and steel-framed towers. Now, its custodians want people to know that. In ...
Not quite 100 years old, the Zuelke Building opened in late 1931 by Irving Zuelke on the corner of East College Avenue and South Oneida Street, and was labeled the city's first "skyscraper." Zuelke ...
People for decades could only peer into downtown Atlanta’s Gulch and wonder if anything but pigeons could ever rise from its depths. But on Thursday, a crowd of Atlanta leaders didn’t look down. They ...
The future of Wilson Plaza, where the city’s first skyscraper opened in the Uptown business district on March 27, 1927, is unclear since it closed on Oct. 25. The 12-story Wilson Building, eight-story ...
A skyscraper is a statement of ambition. No surprise, then, that Saudi Arabia wants to build the world’s tallest. Construction on the Jeddah Tower stopped in 2018 but will restart soon; when completed ...
Canada's skyline has reached a historic era, with a development in Toronto surpassing the 300-meter (984-foot) mark, making it the country's first "supertall" building. "Supertall" is a term used ...
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