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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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• Building Big

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/skyscraper/index.html
  This site explains the construction process of tall buildings and covers facts of a collection of skyscrapers across the world.

• Emporis

  http://www.emporis.com/application/
  An international team maintains this database of tall buildings, navigated by map and list. Also lists construction companies and architects, and supplies news.

• Great Buildings: Skyscrapers

  http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/types/skyscraper.html
  Images, information, and 3D models of a selection of skyscrapers around the world from Great Buildings Online.

• How a Skyscraper is Made

  http://www.madehow.com/Volume-6/Skyscraper.html
  Background, history, raw materials, design, and the construction process of skyscrapers, from Thomson Gale's How Products Are Made.

• How Skyscrapers Work

  http://science.howstuffworks.com/skyscraper.htm
  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.

• Skylines and Scrapers

  http://tudl0867.home.xs4all.nl/skystats.html
  Egbert Gramsbergen presents worldwide highrise statistics, using graphs and various ranking methods.

• Skyscraper Architecture: Tallest Buildings in the World

  http://www.e-architect.co.uk/world_skyscrapers.htm
  Information and pictures of the tallest buildings in the world.

• Skyscraper Page

  http://skyscraperpage.com/
  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.

• Stock.xchng: Skyscrapers

  http://www.sxc.hu/category/1081
  Royalty free stock photography community - images in the skyscrapers category.

• The High-Rise Pages

  http://www.xs4all.nl/~hnetten
  Articles, images and wallpapers of the tallest buildings in the world.

• The Skyscraper Museum

  http://www.skyscraper.org/
  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.

• The Tallest Buildings in the World

  http://www.tallestbuildingintheworld.com/
  A list of the tallest buildings in the world, with a graphic showing the tallest.

• UrbanDB

  http://www.urbandb.com/
  A comprehensive database of Greater Toronto Area construction and skyscraper development activities.

• Wicked Tall Buildings

  http://www.wickedtallbuildings.com/
  Drawings of skyscrapers from across the world. With a personal touch.

• Wikipedia: Skyscraper

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper
  A comprehensive article from the collaborative online encyclopedia on the skyscraper's historical development.

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