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NYC skyscrapers are weird because the city is so cramped with them you don't even realize you're standing at the foot of the empire state or chrysler building. Then when you see them from places like soho they actually look really stumpy. chicago on the other hand... when you are at the willis/sears tower or hancock you can feel the epicness.
That's very true--before computer modelling a lot of stuff was hugely overdesigned. Plus, previous engineering successes can always be used as a starting point for the designs to follow. But even considering that, some of the stuff we as a species have done over the years is still totally unbelievable to me.
First airplane flight: December 17, 1903. Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird: First flight: 22 December 1964 61 ≠ five decades.
The Empire State is
[D]oing the math for a skyscraper built like either the Empire state building or the Chrysler building isn't all that impressive.
When I grow up I want to be an engineer.
Oh come now...