George W. S. Trow

Wonder was the grace of the country. Any action could be justified by that: the wonder it was rooted in. Period followed period, and finally the wonder was that things could be built so big. Bridges, skyscrapers, fortunes, all having a life first in the marketplace, still drew on the force of wonder.

American Novelist

Barack Obama

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

American President

Geoffrey S. Fletcher

From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.

American Director

Tom Holland

Me and my mates go free running all the time. It's not my mum's favourite sport. I've probably jumped four metres on to grass and two metres between buildings. It's nothing like you see on the Internet, with guys jumping off skyscrapers, but it's fun.

English Actor

Ma Yansong

The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which lead to the loss of our humanity and our sense of spiritual emptiness.

Chinese Architect

Neil deGrasse Tyson

In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.

American Scientist

Roland Barthes

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

French Critic

Zaha Hadid

I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper.

British Architect

Lisa Joy

There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.

Philip Johnson

American Architect

Skyscrapers often become landmarks and symbols of a city's skyline.

City Landmarks

Skyscrapers are associated with modern urban life and business centers.

Modern Metropolis

Tall skyscrapers are sometimes seen as a sign of economic strength.

Economic Power

In sailing, 'skyscraper' can be mistaken as a building, but it actually refers to a sail component.

Sailing Jargon

This usage of 'skyscraper' is uncommon today but popular in historical maritime contexts.

Nautical History

As long as an object towers over its surroundings, it can be playfully called a 'skyscraper'.

Relative Height

It is a figure of speech to describe very tall or protruding objects.

Unusual Comparison

Sometimes saying 'skyscraper' exaggerates the height of an object humorously or ironically.

Exaggeration

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 in a way that does not damage the land that provides us with the goods and services that support the human population. Food production might move to vertical farms and skyscrapers, rooftop gardens, or vacant lots in city centers, while power will increasingly come

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 By the end of the 20th century, the race to build the world's tallest skyscraper grinded to a halt. Each new contender was only slightly taller than the one before, and architects were running out of ways to top their previous efforts.

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 that might help with the space issue? In some countries, skyscraper cemeteries enable vertical burials. Some options focus on the body's relationship with the environment. Promession, for example, freeze-dries and pulverizes the body,

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 forming a strong exoskeleton to support the skyscraper. This external structure also made the building much lighter, meaning there’d be less weight to support overall. This design did leave the building vulnerable to strong winds.

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 And as sunken skyscrapers add crumbled concrete to the new forest floor, the soil acidity plummets, potentially allowing new plant life to thrive. This post-human biodiversity extends into the animal kingdom, as well.

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 Concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world. It can be found in swathes of city pavements, bridges that span vast rivers, and the tallest skyscrapers on earth. But this sturdy substance

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 Help us understand the scale of this thing. Well, visually you can see that's a person. Yeah, and that's the vehicle. So if that was a skyscraper, that's like, did I read that, a 40-story skyscraper?

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 the skyscraper world at the heart of each one lies a major technological innovation and allowed engineers to reach ever taller into the sky one by one traveling up the scale will reveal

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 home to more skyscrapers per square mile than anywhere else on earth