Editorial Review:
Explores the city's love of tall buildings from many perspectives--architectural, historical, technological--
Founded in 1996, the Skyscraper Museum is a private, not-for-profit, educational corporation devoted to the study of high-rise building, past, present, and future.
Located in New York City, the world's first and foremost vertical metropolis, the museum celebrates the city's rich architectural heritage and examines the historical forces and individuals that have shaped its successive skylines....
Wowed by the sheer verticality in this town? Awed by the architectural marvel that is the high-rise? You’re not alone. If you’d like to learn more about the technology, culture, and muscle behind it all, seek out this formerly itinerant museum, which moved into its first permanent home in 2004 in the 38-story Skidmore, Owings & Merrill tower that also houses the Ritz-Carlton New York, Battery...