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• Building Big - This site explains the construction process of tall buildings and covers facts of a collection of skyscrapers across the world.
• Emporis - An international team maintains this database of tall buildings, navigated by map and list. Also lists construction companies and architects, and supplies news.
• Great Buildings: Skyscrapers - Images, information, and 3D models of a selection of skyscrapers around the world from Great Buildings Online.
• High Rise Picture Gallery - A photo gallery by Matthew Armling of highrises, skyscrapers and towers in New York, Hongkong and Frankfurt.
• How Skyscrapers Work - This illustrated narrative by Tom Harris from HowStuffWorks explains that the main technological advancement that made skyscrapers possible was the development of mass iron and steel production.
• How a Skyscraper is Made - Background, history, raw materials, design, and the construction process of skyscrapers, from Thomson Gale's How Products Are Made.
• MoMA: Tall Buildings - New York's Museum of Modern Art's permanent tall buildings exhibition presents a focused study of twenty-five tall buildings around the world. [Requires Flash 6 or higher and Acrobat Reader].
• Scraperbase - See which cities and countries have the highest number of skyscrapers and download placemarks of skyscrapers. On this site spires and elevator boxes are not included in the listed heights.
• Skylines and Scrapers - Egbert Gramsbergen presents worldwide highrise statistics, using graphs and various ranking methods.
• Skyscraper Architecture: Tallest Buildings in the World - Information and pictures of the tallest buildings in the world.
• Skyscraper Page - Dylan presents an illustrated database of the world's tallest buildings. The illustrations drawn to one scale make it easy to compare heights internationally or within a city. Includes dates and architects.
• Stock.xchng: Skyscrapers - Royalty free stock photography community - images in the skyscrapers category.
• The High-Rise Pages - Articles, images and wallpapers of the tallest buildings in the world.
• The Skyscraper Museum - Private, not-for-profit, educational corporation devoted to the study of highrise buildings. Exhibits and information on the architecture, materials, and physics of highrise construction.
• The Tallest Buildings in the World - A list of the tallest buildings in the world, with a graphic showing the tallest.
• UrbanDB - A comprehensive database of Greater Toronto Area construction and skyscraper development activities.
• Wicked Tall Buildings - Drawings of skyscrapers from across the world. With a personal touch.
• Wikipedia: Skyscraper - A comprehensive article from the collaborative online encyclopedia on the skyscraper's historical development.

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