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The Skyscraper
Also Known As High-Rise Building
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The very tall building as a type: born in 1880s Chicago and New York from the meeting of the steel frame, the safety elevator and expensive land, given artistic form by Louis Sullivan, competitive glamour by the Art Deco towers, corporate uniformity by the International Style, and global reach by the supertalls of Asia and the Gulf, Burj Khalifa above all.
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The Burj Khalifa is the current holder of the tallest-building record the concept of the skyscraper has chased since the 1880s.
Without the safety elevator, height had no rental value.
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