Directory: Arts: Architecture: Building Types: Skyscrapers (75)
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Emporis - An international team maintains this database of tall buildings, navigated by map and list. Also lists construction companies and architects, and supplies news.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.
High Rise Picture Gallery - A photo gallery by Matthew Armling of highrises, skyscrapers and towers in New York, Hongkong and Frankfurt.
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.
Skyscraper Picture Collection - Collection of photographs by Patrick Beckers of cities across the world and their tallest and most distinctive skyscrapers.
The Tallest Buildings in the World - A list of the tallest buildings in the world, with a graphic showing the tallest.
All About Skyscrapers - Explores a wide range of aspects of the skyscraper.
Skylines and Scrapers - Egbert Gramsbergen presents worldwide highrise statistics, using graphs and various ranking methods.
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.
Tall Building Teaching and Research Group - A group of international experts in tall buildings web site which features articles, images and field studies from across the world.
MoMA: Tall Buildings - New York's Museum of Modern Art's permanent tall buildings exhibition presents a focused study of twenty-five tall buildings around the world. [Requires Flash 6 or higher and Acrobat Reader].
SkyScrapers.org - High Resolution Illustrations of Skyscrapers all over 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.
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