Excerpt from article on Cleveland.com: In the anguished weeks after terrorists toppled the World Trade Center towers, architects and engineers pondered the unthinkable: the end of the skyscraper era.
From the 1880s, when the first high-rises poked above Chicago and New York skylines, tall buildings had defined the nation’s ingenuity, economic clout and can-do optimism. They were capitalism’s exclamation points, steel fingers pointing the way upward.
