US /ˈskaɪˌskrepɚ/
・UK /'skaɪskreɪpə(r)/
This building is called a skyscraper, skyscraper.
And why is it called skyscraper?
This tier called seishin are features you'll find in many of Tokyo's high-rise office buildings and they're designed to counteract the sort of swing that might shake a house but top a skyscraper.
and they're designed to counteract the sort of swaying that might shake a house but topple a skyscraper.
Engineers decided the best way to solve this problem was to create two separate concrete cores, the same kind of core you'll have seen 100 times on skyscraper construction sites.
the same kind of core you'll have seen a hundred times on skyscraper construction sites.
Here in Bangkok, heavy machinery is now sifting through the rubble of that collapsed skyscraper.
Here in Bangkok, heavy machinery is now sifting through the rubble of that collapsed skyscraper.
I'm sitting here on the 13th floor of a shiny, brand-new, beautiful skyscraper building that is costing you, the taxpayer, a fortune.
I'm sitting here on the 13th floor of a shiny, brand new, beautiful skyscraper building that is costing you the taxpayer a fortune.
There's so many different areas like the skyscraper districts, the low towns or shita machi areas, the futuristic areas, and the fancy neighborhoods.
There's so many different areas like the skyscraper districts, the low-towns of Hitomachi areas, the futuristic areas, and
For example, staying in a westernized skyscraper hotel at a familiar brand.
For example, staying in a Westernized skyscraper hotel at a familiar brand.
And we flew to Dallas and we went up to this huge skyscraper with the cavernous conference room with the endangered hardwood conference table, whatever, and pitched.
And we flew to Dallas and we went up this huge, you know, skyscraper with the cavernous conference room with the endangered hardwood conference table, whatever,
But according to legend, this skyscraper was once considered so obscenely large that it led to the first major zoning law in the United States,
and because of that law, it was the last skyscraper of its kind.
For scale, this is enough to rebuild the whole island of Manhattan with every building and skyscraper using stacks of TNT.
with every building and skyscraper using stacks of TNT.