America’s most walkable city home to the world’s first skyscraper… but hot dog ketchup is banned
DECISIONS, decisions, de- cisions. Should I go for the Italian beef sandwich, the deep-dish pizza or the hotdog with seven ...
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The fascinating story of the world’s first skyscraper, in Chicago
It was this structural innovation that enabled the Home Insurance Building to be built in 1884. The world's first skyscraper revolutionised architecture, as in its wake would follow ever taller ...
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Manhattan Skyscrapers
Its gracefully stepped shape, a product of the city's 1916 zoning law (the first of its kind in the nation), allowed the building to rise in a series of setbacks from a five-story base to a ...