The Home Insurance Building in Chicago is often considered the world's first skyscraper due to both its design and height; the building was supported using an iron frame skeleton.
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The Home Insurance Building, built in 1885 and located on the corner of Adams and LaSalle Streets in Chicago, Illinois, went down in history as the world's first modern skyscraper.
Opened in Rotterdam, 1898. The architect was Willem Molenbroek. The first modern skyscraper in Europe was built in the year 1898. Its name was The Witte Huis or The White House and the place where it was built is Rotterdam (Netherlands).
William LeBaron Jenney, a Chicago architect, designed the first skyscraper in 1884. Nine stories high, the Home Life Insurance Building was the first structure whose entire weight, including the exterior walls, was supported on an iron frame.
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Situated in Scotland, the Knap of Howar is a Neolithic farmstead and is considered to be the oldest preserved stone house in Europe is considered to be the oldest preserved stone house in Europe. It was occupied between 3700-2800 BC and consists of two adjacent, rectangular buildings facing the sea.
The Home Life Insurance Building has the distinction of being the first skyscraper. It was completed in 1885, and was the first building built whose entire weight was supported with an iron frame.
Chicago is the birthplace of the skyscraper. The Home Insurance Building, completed in 1885, is regarded as the world's first skyscraper. This building used the steel-frame method, innovated in Chicago. It was originally built with 10 stories, an enormous height in the 1800s, to a height of 138 feet (42 m).
Life span of skyscrapers can exceed 100 years, and upto 150 years, provided the structural design and construction quality conforms to the advices stipulated in the National and international Standards for construction.