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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Fred F. French Building | 551 Fifth Avenue |
H. Douglas Ives|Sloan and Robertston |
1927 |
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General Electric Building | 570 Lexington Avenue |
Cross and Cross |
1931 |
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Empire State Building | 350 Fifth Avenue |
Shreve, Lamb and Harmon |
1931 |
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Daily News Building | 220 East 42nd Street |
Raymond Hood|John Mead Howells |
1929 |
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Chrysler Building | 405 Lexington Avenue |
William Van Alen |
1930 |
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Chanin Building | 122 East 42nd Street |
Sloan and Robertson |
1929 |
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Candler Building | 220 West 42nd Street and 221 West 41st Street |
"Willauer, Shape, and Bready" |
1914 |
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Bank of the Metropolis | 31 Union Square West |
Bruce Price |
1902 |
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American Radiator Building | 40 West 40th Street |
Raymond Hood and André Fouilhoux |
1924 |