No building style better represented America’s industriousness ... proved to be sufficiently rigid. These early skyscrapers also benefited from heavy stone, brick, and terra cotta facades ...

The twin towers of the World Trade Center, among the best known buildings in the world, represent only one step in the century-long evolution of skyscrapers in New York City. Here are some ...

Although we dressed up our early skyscrapers in Old World styles ... No building style better represented America’s industriousness, monomaniacal greed, disregard of tradition, and eagerness ...

Stefan Bryła was shot by the German firing squad in a street execution as early as September 1939 ... whose skyline today features more than 30 buildings higher than 100 metres, with more under ...