When did we collectively decide that tall buildings don’t touch the sky, or reach it, or climb it, but scrape it
When did we collectively decide that tall buildings don’t touch the sky, or reach it, or climb it, but scrape it
architect: behold, the world’s first skyscraper!
businessman: why is it called that
Architect: well—
*from above, a long, horrible, metallic screeching noise can be distantly heard*
Something to keep in mind is that at the time both balloons and heavier-than-air aircraft still had relatively low maximum ceilings, we had the idea of the sky as somewhere you could go but only so far, to limits they were scraping