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A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many storeys, usually designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper. One common feature is having a steel framework from which curtain walls are suspended, rather than load-bearing walls of conventional construction.
In context, a relatively small building may be considered a skyscraper if it protrudes well above its built environment and changes the overall skyline. The maximum height of structures has progressed historically with building methods and technologies. Also lacking an official definition, the term 'Supertall' has arisen for the current generation of exceptionally tall buildings.
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Arranha-céu ou arranha-céus é a denominação popular de edifícios dotados de uma altura singular frente aos seus demais. Estes prédios normalmente possuem caráter multifuncional, sendo capazes de abrigar estabelecimentos residenciais, comerciais, de serviços, entre outros. A sua presença no espaço urbano, quando destacada de tecidos urbanos dotados de menor gabarito (altura média das edificações), constitui-se em geral como uma referência ou marco para a cidade, embora ele também possa gerar problemas vários ligados à mobilidade urbana, consumo de energia e segurança.
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超高層建築物（ちょうこうそうけんちくぶつ）は、高層建築物の中でも特に高い建築物である。超高層ビル（ちょうこうそうビル）ともいう（以下、「超高層ビル」を用いる）。どの程度の高さ以上の建築物を超高層ビルと呼ぶかについては、統一された明確な基準はない（#定義参照）。
Southern Cypress towers over a lowcountry swamp on Bear Island, South Carolina.Zak Collins Photography // Facebook
I took the following from outside Penn Station in New York in November 2005. I wasn't much interested in photography back then but I had my camera on me and I was suddenly struck by the patterns being made by the air conditioning boxes on the front of the buildings. When I took the picture a woman said to me "I'm glad someone else is seeing this."
Since it was, for me a memorable photo, I've always been slightly annoyed at the fact that when I set up an auto-generated "least interesting" set, this one ended up there (and has stayed there). It may be technically deficient (it was taken on a 3mp p&s) but I like it. This is a slightly tarted-up and sepiaed version.
I worked in downtown Houston from 1983 to 1986. During the early 1980's, several skyscrapers were completed downtown. It was interesting watching as the buildings were being completed.
The tall building in the photo when completed in 1981 was the Texas Commerce Tower. It has 75 stories and is 1,002 feet tall. It is the tallest building in Houston, in Texas,and the tallest five-sided building in the world. It is now the JPMorgan Chase Tower.
In the picture, you can see a floor of floor to ceiling windows. That is the 60th floor skylobby where you change elevators to go to the upper floors. When I worked downtown, the skylobby was open to the public. Whenever we had out of town guests, we would take them to the skylobby for a fantastic view of downtown and the city.
The photo was taken in April 2010.
To me this looks a little like a scraper of the sky. These are the clouds just as a thunderstorm passed only a few minutes earlier and just as the sun was setting, casting hues and colors across the sky. At that moment it looked so awesome that I had to scrape a bit of it up for myself. Lucky for you I saved a little.