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The Empire State Building rises above the Midtown Manhattan skyline in New York City, surrounded by other high-rise buildings under a blue sky with scattered clouds.
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Home Insurance Company Building
Fair Store
Gold Coast
Woolworth Building
The Chrysler Building in Manhattan, New York City, with its distinctive Art Deco spire and crown, stands among other skyscrapers with the cityscape and river in the background.
World Trade Center
The Willis Tower, formerly Sears Tower, rises above the Chicago skyline with its distinctive black, tiered structure and twin antennae, surrounded by other downtown buildings.
Petronas Towers rise above KLCC Park in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with people swimming in a blue pool and city buildings in the background.
An old-fashioned manual elevator door is held open by a white man in a polo shirt.
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Key People

Louis Sullivan
Louis Sullivan
American architect
Daniel H. Burnham.
Daniel Burnham
American architect
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American architect
Nervi
Pier Luigi Nervi
Italian engineer and architect
I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei
Chinese-born American architect
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Bruce Graham
American architect
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Nathaniel Owings
American architect and engineer
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Louis Skidmore
American architect
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Martin Roche
American architect
Jeanne Gang smiling at an event, wearing a black turtleneck with a dark backdrop featuring partially visible award text.
Jeanne Gang
American architect
Norman Foster: 30 St Mary Axe
Norman Foster
British architect
Philip Johnson: AT&T Building
Philip Johnson
American architect
Eliel Saarinen: First Christian Church
Eliel Saarinen
Finnish architect
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Harvey Ellis
American architect and painter
Fazlur Khan in the late 1970s
Fazlur Khan
American engineer
lobby of the Rookery
John Wellborn Root
American architect
Holabird, William; Roche, Martin; Marquette Building
William Holabird
American architect
Gordon Bunshaft, c. 1950s.
Gordon Bunshaft
American architect
Home Insurance Company Building, Chicago, designed by Jenney, 1884–85
William Le Baron Jenney
American engineer and architect
Philadelphia Savings Fund Society Building
William Lescaze
American architect

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