skyscraper

A skyscraper is a building many stories tall. The first skyscraper was the 1885 ten-story Home Insurance Building in Chicago. San Francisco's constricted geography has encouraged vertical building.

More skyscraper buildings

Bellaire Apartments 1101 Green Street

H. C. Baumann

1930
Bank of America World Headquarters 555 California Street

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

1969
Alcoa Building 1 Maritime Plaza

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

1967
Shaklee Building 444 Market Street

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

1982
Flatiron Building 5th Avenue and Broadway

Daniel Burnham, Frederick Dinkelberg

1902
Library Tower 633 West Fifth Street

Pei Cobb Freed and Partners

1987
Fox Plaza 2121 Avenue of the Stars

Scott Johnson, Bill Fain, William L. Pereira

1985
Hartford Insurance Building 636-650 California Street

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

1965
Lever House 390 Park Avenue

Skidmore, Owings and Merrill

1952
Seagram Building 375 Park Avenue

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe|Phillip Johnson

1957

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