American’s Pride in Skyscrapers

The United States is known for its many excellent achievements. These included sending Neil Armstrong to the Moon in 1969 and making an economical engine to win the World War II. But when you land in America, you can not see these results because they are invisible. You can not stand anywhere in America, you can not say 'This is the country going to the moon'. Chesterton said, "Architecture is the giant's alphabet, the biggest symbol designed to fit human eyes."

There are about 200 skyscrapers in the latest world. Skyscrapers emerge from the city and are associated with the high degree of pride of the country in which they were built. The history of skyscraper dates back to around 600 BC, and in Babylonian civilization, we built a tower of Babel with simple materials such as clay, brick, stone. The age of this masonry has long been occupied until the introduction of steel engineering quietly entered the nineteenth century. This opens the way to lay a relatively tall building rather than using masonry that can not build tall buildings.

High-rise building, very high, skyscraper. This name was first used in the 1880's, shortly after the first skyscraper in the United States was built. The development of skyscrapers is due to the coincidence of some technical and social development. The term skyscraper was originally applied to buildings with 10 to 20 floors, but by the end of the 20th century, high-rise buildings with different heights, usually 40 to 50 story buildings to represent buildings It was used. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the development of urban commerce in the United States increased the demand for urban commercial space, and in 1857 the first safe passenger elevator (located in the Haughwout department store in New York) was set up.

The first skyscraper - a skyscraper or skyscraper high-rise building - appeared from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. The Chicago family insurance building was completed in 1885 and is often considered the first modern skyscraper, but the height is only ten floors. Later, higher buildings became possible through a series of architectural and engineering innovations, including inventions of the steel's first large-scale production. Today, the highest skyscraper in the world is close to 2,000 feet, even more than 2,000 feet