Skyscrapers weren’t always the shimmering glass-and-steel giants we know today. In the late 19th century, the idea of ...

Although we dressed up our early skyscrapers in Old World styles (the Met Life Tower as an Italian campanile, the Woolworth Building as a French Gothic cathedral), most foreigners agreed that ...

Built during the proliferation of American skyscrapers in the early 20th century, they represent attempts to harness engineering breakthroughs to find a mode of building that represented America's ...