Once the towering giant of skyscraper construction, the US is falling behind Eastern countries — but American architectural ingenuity is still coveted.

In the mid-1880s, Chicago pulled off something nobody else had tried before by building a tall, metal-framed office tower called the Home Insurance Building. We’d call that a skyscraper today. It didn ...

Explore the heights of America's tallest skyscrapers in this comprehensive comparison video. We rank the tallest buildings from number 16 to number 1, detailing their significant heights and notable ...

In 1956, Frank Lloyd Wright designed The Illinois — intended to be the world’s first mile-high skyscraper. Stretching to 528 stories, and with parking for 15,000 cars and 100 helicopters, The Illinois ...