by Luke McKinney – December 11, 2007 via DailyGalaxy.Com

Buildings are great. They keep you warm, you don’t get wet when it rains, and they’re chock full of electrical sockets you can plug your Wii into. But after thousands of years of construction it seems that architects have gotten bored of the “four walls and a roof” idea.

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August 17, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com

The skyscraper has had more comebacks than Cher. From its humble, naive beginnings in Chicago after the fire of 1871; its idealistic representation in early European Modernism; its apex as the glam symbol of American corporate eminence; its bimbo phase in Postmodernism; its more recent dalliance with high-tech engineering; and culminating with its supposed demise on September 11, 2001, the skyscraper is one helluva contender.

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