Freddy needed a job, having been detached from a rather dangerous career in real estate and skyscraper financing by Gerry, and it was up to Arthur Willis to provide him with one.

Foster + Partners submitted a plan for a 385 metre tall skyscraper, the London Millenium Tower, but its height was seen as excessive for London's skyline.

Nashville's first skyscraper, the Life & Casualty Tower, was completed in 1957 and started the construction of high rises in downtown Nashville.

After the great depression, skyscraper construction was abandoned.

Home Insurance Building in Chicago, United States was considered a skyscraper when it was built in 1884, but it had only ten storeys.

The term " skyscraper " was first applied to buildings of steel framed construction of at least 10 storeys in the late 19th century, a result of public amazement at the tall buildings being built in major cities like Chicago, New York City, Detroit, and St. Louis.

The first steel frame skyscraper was the Home Insurance Building ( originally 10 storeys with a height of ) in Chicago, Illinois in 1885.

The structural definition of the word skyscraper was refined later by architectural historians, based on engineering developments of the 1880s that had enabled construction of tall multi-storey buildings.

That year the Movement was constructing 70-storey twin skyscraper in Seoul at an estimated cost of $ 2 billion USD.

* Windsor Tower, a skyscraper in Madrid, Spain, which was destroyed in a fire in 2005

It was the largest skyscraper in Oakland, as well as " the largest office tower west of Chicago " up to that time.

Louis Henry Sullivan ( September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924 ) was an American architect, and has been called the " father of skyscrapers " and " father of modernism " He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.

* 1987 – 190 South LaSalle Street, Chicago, Ill .; Burgee's first skyscraper in Chicago, where he was born

Gilbert was a skyscraper pioneer ; when designing the Woolworth Building he moved into unproven ground — though he certainly was aware of the ground-breaking work done by Chicago architects on skyscrapers and once discussed merging firms with the legendary Daniel Burnham — and his technique of cladding a steel frame became the model for decades.

Certain specific incidents in the fictional Keating's career are pointed to by Heynick as having been drawn from Hood's real-life career, such as their both suddenly gaining national fame by winning the highly-publicized skyscraper contest for a media corporation in the early 1920s with a design in the historicist style, and their both heading the committee for a " modernistic " World's Fair in the 1930s from which the hero architect ( Howard Roark in the novel, Frank Lloyd Wright in real-life ) was excluded.

At the time, it was seen as provocation on a grand scale: crowning a Manhattan skyscraper with a shape echoing a historical wardrobe top defied every precept of the modernist aesthetic: historical pattern had been effectively outlawed among architects for years.

Their primary expertise is in high-end commercial buildings, as it was SOM that led the way to the widespread use of the modern international-style or " glass box " skyscraper.

The Transamerica Pyramid was the tallest skyscraper west of the Mississippi from 1972 to 1974 surpassing the then Bank of America Center.

Constructed from 1969 to 1972, it was the tallest skyscraper in France until 2011, when it was surpassed by the Tour First.

In 1974, 555 California Street was again used extensively for filming of a box-office hit, this time The Towering Inferno, in which the outside plaza substituted for the film's fictional skyscraper, the infamous Glass Tower.

One Canada Square ( often incorrectly called Canary Wharf, after its location ) is a skyscraper in Canary Wharf, London.

First Canadian Place is a skyscraper in the financial district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, at the northwest corner of King and Bay streets, and is the location of the Toronto headquarters of the Bank of Montreal.

Scarbrough and Hicks department store, founded on the southwest corner of 6th and Congress in 1893, decided to remain in this same location in 1909 when it undertook the construction of Austin's first modern skyscraper ; the Scarborough Building is an eight-story brick building in the Commercial style.

Dalmarnock is the location for the athletes ' village when Glasgow hosts the 2014 Commonwealth Games and proposed skyscraper East One.

Altdorfer's figures are invariably the complement of his romantic landscapes ; for them he borrowed Albrecht Dürer's inventive iconography, but the panoramic setting is personal and has nothing to do with the fantasy landscapes of the Netherlands A Susanna in the Bath and the Stoning of the Elders ( 1526 ) set outside an Italianate skyscraper of a palace shows his interest in architecture.

He returned to China for the first time in 1974 to design a hotel at Fragrant Hills, and designed a skyscraper in Hong Kong for the Bank of China fifteen years later.

Boldly abandoning ornament altogether, Mies made a dramatic modernist debut with his stunning competition proposal for the faceted all-glass Friedrichstraße skyscraper in 1921, followed by a taller curved version in 1922 named the Glass Skyscraper .< ref > Compare Arthur Lubow's " The Contextualizer ," New York Times.

For example, in his design for the new CCTV headquarters in Beijing ( 2009 ), Koolhaas did not opt for the stereotypical skyscraper, often used to symbolise and landmark such government enterprises, but instead designed a series of volumes which not only tie together the numerous departments onto the nebulous site, but also introduced routes ( again, the concept of cross-programming ) for the general public through the site, allowing them some degree of access to the production procedure.

A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many storeys, usually designed for office and commercial use.

Fazlur Rahman Khan is regarded as the " Einstein of Structural Engineering " for his revolutionary work which remain fundamental to modern skyscraper construction.

Some point to New York's seven-floor Equitable Life Assurance Building, built in 1870, as an early skyscraper for its innovative use of a kind of skeletal frame, but such designation depends largely on what factors are chosen.

The Children's Museum of Memphis exhibits interactive and educational activities for children to take part in, including a skyscraper maze, an airplane cockpit ( donated by FedEx ), a fire engine, an art studio, grocery store, and, most recently, a mechanic's garage sponsored by AutoZone, Inc.

This restriction seems to have been dispensed for plans in the developing suburban area in the west of Utrecht ( Leidsche Rijn ) and a skyscraper of 262 metres in height has been proposed, challenging this long-standing tradition.

It is today best known for its skyscraper, the Tour Montparnasse, and its major railway terminus, the Gare Montparnasse.

The street is known for its business and retailing skyscraper complex Langham Place, numerous restaurants and its famous red-light district.

* UK skyscraper list 2001, for Tolworth Tower data

Peter Youree, who commissioned the first skyscraper in Shreveport, Louisiana, a 10-storey headquarters building for the Commercial National Bank, of which he was president, was born in Lafayette County in 1843 and grew up there.

At the same time, the company had plans for a new skyscraper downtown.

A landmark engineering achievement as a skyscraper, it was designed by Ernest R. Graham and completed in 1915.

Construction of Central Park cost $ 186. 5 million, and upon completion the building overtook the R & I Tower ( now the BankWest Tower ) as the tallest skyscraper in Perth.

The W. R. Grace Building is a skyscraper in Manhattan.