National Skyscraper Day 2022

The last skyscraper I went into was in Houston Texas while there on business a long time ago. The building was in the Post Oak section of town and was adjacent to the Bechtel building where I was working and appeared tall and thin. I felt that it swayed in the breeze for the brief time I was there ...

Which certainly wasn't a long interval.

Today is National Skyscraper Day. It is an annual observance held each September 3rd and recognizes these spectacularly tall habitations utilized for living and working as the marvels of human engineering they are.

The day is the anniversary of the birth of Louis H Sullivan who is said to be the "father" of modern skyscrapers. The name skyscraper originates in the 1880s in the United States as a moniker for high rise buildings.

I am not one to study the worlds construction — but I must say that skyscrapers leave me awestruck at the notion of long term utilization of them.

I'd like to consider what sort of height limitations may exist but I just cannot really go there for fear of bad karma.

I recall the 2008 contemporary horror flick Cloverfield set in New York City and the main hero Rob looking out the window of his girl Beth's apartment which was Unit 3910 in the second tower of the Time Warner Center at 10 Columbia Circle in Manahttan overlooking Central Park.
 

The digs were positively spectacular and the building appeared to be as high as the the view one might observe from an airplane. The building ended up falling and was leaning on the adjacent tower from which the young lady was rescued from beneath a beam prior to their perilous departure as a plot item.

The astounding thing was in retrospect, it wasn't even the tallest building in the immediate vicinity.

Suffice it to say that though I worked on the 10th floor of a local office building for some thirteen years it was not something I would have chosen for myself. I prefer to keep my feet on the ground if you don't mind. Happy National Skyscraper Day anyway. If you're one of the many who enjoy a sky high lifestyle either working, residing, or both more power to you !