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 ...

A proposed new skyscraper in downtown San Francisco would be the tallest building in the U.S. outside of New York and Chicago - bumping Philadelphia and Los Angeles down in the rankings. At 1,225 feet ...

One of Bertrand Goldberg’s twin Marina City towers being built in Chicago. When completed in 1968, the towers were the tallest reinforced concrete structures in the world. (Courtesy Geoffrey Goldberg) ...

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