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Originally Posted by Dariusb
wasn't Chicago the birth place of the skyscraper?
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It's a clever little catch phrase that the local CTB likes to promote, but no one city can take full credit for birthing the skyscraper building type into existence. It was a
very evolutionary process.
However, any honest reading of architectural history would certainly place the lion's share of the structural, functional, & aesthetic innovations that gave birth to the skyscraper as springing forth from two main cities: NYC & Chicago.
Together, they are the planet's two greatest skyscraper museums.
And if anyone disagrees with that, they are straight-up wrong.