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Why did America start building skyscrapers?

Reducing housing costs, to level inequality, and allowing more people to live in city centers are three of the founding reasons that skyscrapers were built.



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The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, opened in 1885, is, however, most often labeled the first skyscraper because of its innovative use of structural steel in a metal frame design.

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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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New York City, specifically the borough of Manhattan, notably has the tallest skyline in the country. Eleven American buildings have held the title of tallest building in the world. New York City and Chicago have always been the centers of American skyscraper building.

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What is the only major U.S. city without skyscrapers? Washington D.C.

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China. With a whopping 3090 skyscrapers that are over 150 metres tall, China occupies the first position in this list.

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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).

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Concrete Skyscrapers: 100-300 years (due to the strength of reinforced steel and concrete, the edifice may last up to 2-3 centuries before crumbling down back to earth due to natural elements, chemical processes and natural or artificial conflagrations.

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