The first skyscraper is generally considered to be the home insurance building in chicago though it was only 10 stories high.
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A skyscraper is a continuously habitable high rise building that has over 40 floors and is taller than 150 m 492 ft.
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The name first came into use during the 1880s shortly after the first skyscrapers were built in the united states.
In the 1880s it began to be applied to buildings first in 1883 to describe large.
Skyscrapers may host offices hotels residential spaces and retail spaces.
Later taller and taller buildings were made possible through a series of architectural and engineering innovations including the.
Due to the stock market crash of 1929 and onset of the great depression construction was halted at floor 29 in 1933.
Houses commonly have only one or two floors.
Historically the term first referred to buildings with 10 to 20 floors in the 1880s.
A single storey house is often referred to particularly in the united kingdom as a bungalow the tallest skyscraper in the world burj khalifa has 163 floors.
There is some speculation as to whether metropolitan life really intended to finish the 100 story building.
The first skyscrapers tall commercial buildings with iron or steel frameworks came about in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Buildings are often classified as low rise mid rise and high rise according to how many levels they contain but these categories are not well defined.
The development of skyscrapers came as a result of the coincidence of several technological and social developments.
The meaning shifted with advancing construction technology during the 20th century.
Skyscraper very tall multistoried building.