(The accepted definition of a skyscraper is any building whose height exceeds 150 meters (nearly 500 feet)
I always thought NYC had more skyscrapers than anyone.
Wrong, it’s Hong Kong with 303 to NYC’s 238.
A shockingly surprising third is Dubai, (United Arab Emirates) with 148
Next is Shanghai with 126.
Chicago follows with 117
Then, Tokyo with 114
The next 3 are in China:
Chongqing – 94
Guangzhou – 93
And Shenzhen – 83
Bringing up the rear of the top ten is Singapore with 81
I live in the tallest building in Brattleboro: the “High Rise” on Elliot. At 7 storeys, it’s approximately 80 feet tall .
One World Trade Center in NYC, the tallest building in United States, is a 105 storey 1400 foot high skyscraper that was built to replace the original World Trade Center destroyed in 9/11 terror attack.
The top 10 in the good ol’ USA are:
1. New York City – Number of skyscrapers in the city: 238
2. Chicago – Number of skyscrapers in the city: 117
3. Houston – Number of skyscrapers in the city: 33
4. Miami – Number of skyscrapers in the city: 31
5. Los Angeles – Number of skyscrapers in the city: 23
6. San Francisco – Number of skyscrapers in the city: 21
7. Dallas – Number of skyscrapers in the city: 20
8. Boston – Number of skyscrapers in the city: 18
9. Atlanta – Number of skyscrapers in the city: 16
10. Seattle Number of skyscrapers in the city: 14 – tied with Las Vegas – Number of skyscrapers in the city: 14
3 Story Building
In Florida, everything is one floor. No one has a basement. If you have a mansion you might have a second level, but basically everything is one story.
Except the old high school.
For some reason, our old school had a single building with three floors. This was, of course, surrounded by a campus of one floor classrooms, library, cafeteria, etc. (Hallways were outdoors. Canopy roofing over walkways protected us if it rained. The principal and his assistant used to ride around in a golf cart.)
The kicker – everyone called it the 3 Story Building. We didn’t go to the old building, or the building with the auditorium, or the tall building… no, the creative name was the 3 Story Building.
It didn’t have an elevator, either, and no ADA accommodations. (Bad kids knew to escape to the 3 story building to prevent a teacher using a wheelchair from catching them (well, immediately. The law caught up with them eventually.)