A multi-storey building constructed on a steel skeleton, provided with high-speed electric elevators and combining extraordinary height with ordinary room-spaces such as would be used in low buildings.
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- The Skyscraper Museum Private, not-for-profit, educational corporation devoted to the study of highrise buildings. Exhibits and information on the architecture, materials, and physics of highrise construction.
- Great Buildings: Skyscrapers Images, information, and 3D models of a selection of skyscrapers around the world from Great Buildings Online.
- Skyscraper Page Dylan presents an illustrated database of the world's tallest buildings. The illustrations drawn to one scale make it easy to compare heights internationally or within a city. Includes dates and architects.
- The Tallest Buildings in the World A list of the tallest buildings in the world, with a graphic showing the tallest.
- How a Skyscraper is Made Background, history, raw materials, design, and the construction process of skyscrapers, from Thomson Gale's How Products Are Made.
- Wikipedia: Skyscraper A comprehensive article from the collaborative online encyclopedia on the skyscraper's historical development.
- Stock.xchng: Skyscrapers Royalty free stock photography community - images in the skyscrapers category.
- The High-Rise Pages Articles, images and wallpapers of the tallest buildings in the world.
- Wicked Tall Buildings Drawings of skyscrapers from across the world. With a personal touch.
- Building Big This site explains the construction process of tall buildings and covers facts of a collection of skyscrapers across the world.
- UrbanDB A comprehensive database of Greater Toronto Area construction and skyscraper development activities.
- Skyscraper Architecture: Tallest Buildings in the World Information and pictures of the tallest buildings in the world.
- How Skyscrapers Work This illustrated narrative by Tom Harris from HowStuffWorks explains that the main technological advancement that made skyscrapers possible was the development of mass iron and steel production.
- Emporis An international team maintains this database of tall buildings, navigated by map and list. Also lists construction companies and architects, and supplies news.
- Skylines and Scrapers Egbert Gramsbergen presents worldwide highrise statistics, using graphs and various ranking methods.