Important Skyscrapers
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- Home Insurance Building
- First Skyscraper. 1883. 138ft Chicago
- Monadnock Building
- 197ft. 1891. Chicago. Built with thicker walls on bottom, thinner walls at top, to support weight of building
- Ingalls Building
- Cincinnati. 210ft. 1903. Made entirely of concrete
- Bauhaus, Dessau
- Germany. Operated from 1919-1933. Considered Modernist Architecture
- Empire State Building
- New York. 1931. 1454ft from base to tip
- Seagrams Building
- New York. 1960s. Steel frame. Windows cover entire building (curtain wall of glass)
- John Hancock Center (Chicago)
- 1127ft. 1968. Trussed Tube structure ("X-ed")
- Hancock Tower (Boston)
- Outside structure made of windows. Strong inner core. Designed to force wind loads to move past, on one side only. Windows all fell off one year because of wind.
- World Trade Center
- NYC. 1368ft. 1966-1971. Simple Tube structure
- Sears Tower (Willis Tower)
- Chicago. 1451ft. 1974. Bundled Tube structure
- Burj Khalifa (Dubai)
- 2717ft. 2004-2010. Tallest building in the world
- Cambridge Public Library
- Cambridge, MA. 2009. Example of Double Skin Walls