2007-07-06 05:45:17 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
According to the official guidelines of the National Office of the Registry of Skyscrapers, a building must be 45 stories or 500 feet before it is considered a skyscraper.
No wait, wait a minute, what am I talking about? - there's no official guidelines on skyscrapers... just make up whatever you like. A skyscraper is a "tall" building - how high do you think "tall" is, for a building?
2007-07-06 05:50:42 · answer #1 · answered by astazangasta 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its all relative to the biggest building in the town. A farm town would consider 5 stories to be a skyscraper if all others were only 1 story tall.
2007-07-06 13:00:21 · answer #2 · answered by zebedos 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
50 stories (floor levels) comes to mind. I think I heard that when I was a 'kid'. I grew up in a town where the tallest building was 13 stories, and we never called it a "skyscraper". Even today the tallest building in town is 20-some stories, and it isn't a skyscraper.
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2007-07-06 12:51:48 · answer #3 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From what I can tell there is no set height. Seems to have changed as technology changed. The wikipedia article below explains quite a lot about them.
2007-07-06 13:57:36 · answer #4 · answered by ghouly05 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When you are on the top and hear angels laughing,
2007-07-06 18:05:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
11889953248771.2 inches
2007-07-06 12:53:01 · answer #6 · answered by tree_munch 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋