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
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Bellaire Apartments | 1101 Green Street |
H. C. Baumann |
1930 |
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Bank of America World Headquarters | 555 California Street |
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill |
1969 |
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Alcoa Building | 1 Maritime Plaza |
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill |
1967 |
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Shaklee Building | 444 Market Street |
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill |
1982 |
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Flatiron Building | 5th Avenue and Broadway |
Daniel Burnham, Frederick Dinkelberg |
1902 |
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Library Tower | 633 West Fifth Street |
Pei Cobb Freed and Partners |
1987 |
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Fox Plaza | 2121 Avenue of the Stars |
Scott Johnson, Bill Fain, William L. Pereira |
1985 |
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Hartford Insurance Building | 636-650 California Street |
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill |
1965 |
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Lever House | 390 Park Avenue |
Skidmore, Owings and Merrill |
1952 |
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Seagram Building | 375 Park Avenue |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe|Phillip Johnson |
1957 |