SkyscraperPage
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SkyscraperPage is a website that focuses exclusively on skyscrapers and other urban developments. SkyscraperPage's main feature is its diagrams. It is also the largest open database on skyscrapers and highrise buildings.
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[edit] Diagrams
SkyscraperPage diagrams are a collection of detailed scale drawings of structures from around the world. What started in 1997 as a small collection of a few dozen simple black-and-white drawings became a searchable database of over 23,000 drawings of skyscrapers, buildings, and other structures. The diagrams are created by an international volunteer community of illustrators who submit their work to the site. Anyone can submit an illustration to the SkyscraperPage diagrams.
As the only such existing collection, the SkyscraperPage diagrams have become a widely known and widely used resource for information on, and renderings of, Skyscrapers. Most notably, the Guinness Book of World Records used SkyscraperPage illustrations in the 2005 edition of its book. Its diagrams have also appeared in newspapers, magazines, Marquee Publishing's Toronto for Kids.
[edit] Other features
- A discussion forum covering skyscrapers, cities, urbanity, architecture, engineering and transportation.
- Lists of high-rise proposals and construction projects
- A gallery of original photographs of buildings and skylines
[edit] Statistics
- Over 12,000 registered users
- Over 8,000 forum users
- Over 23,000 detailed scale drawings
- Over 48,000 buildings
