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Chicago invented the skyscraper.
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Tonika Lewis Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
The dock is 900 feet long, as long as a skyscraper is tall.
—Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2026
But instead of treating those rooms as back of house, OMA packed them into the peak of a short skyscraper, elevating them into sunlit incubators of deliberate delirium poised above the everyday.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 19 Mar. 2026
Drift, a documentary about free solo skyscraper climber-photographer Isaac Wright, aka Drift, is so obviously destined to be the precursor of a future biopic that its interviewees are already discussing that outcome in the film.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Mar. 2026
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Tonika Lewis Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2026
The dock is 900 feet long, as long as a skyscraper is tall.
—Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2026
But instead of treating those rooms as back of house, OMA packed them into the peak of a short skyscraper, elevating them into sunlit incubators of deliberate delirium poised above the everyday.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 19 Mar. 2026
Drift, a documentary about free solo skyscraper climber-photographer Isaac Wright, aka Drift, is so obviously destined to be the precursor of a future biopic that its interviewees are already discussing that outcome in the film.
—Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 18 Mar. 2026
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“Skyscraper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skyscraper. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
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skyscraper
noun
sky·scrap·er
ˈskī-ˌskrā-pər 
: a very tall building
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