Here on this very site, SSP, there are 4 categories:
General Development - for up to 199'
Midrise - for 200' to 499'
Skyscraper - 500' to 999'
Supertall - 1000' or higher
Obviously ALOT of people think of a Skyscraper as a building 500' tall or taller...
My own personal thoughts on the definition of a Skyscraper...
Way, way back in time, 2530 BC, the Great Pyramid was built, 481' tall, and nothing taller was built until the middle ages, so it held the record of Worlds Tallest Structure for approx. 3600 years. (I seriously doubt that record will ever be broken!) Even after that, it took many hundreds of years for even a modest list of buildings (structures) taller than the Great Pyramid. I would say that even today building a structure taller than 481' is quite an accomplishment. Five Hundred feet is a nice, rounded-off number to use of course, but IMO a Skyscraper would be 482' or taller, because if you cant build something taller than what the ancient Egyptians were able to build 4538 years ago...
Last edited by koops65; Sep 12, 2008 at 7:30 PM.
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