Early reports billed it as the first steel skyscraper in the country to collapse solely from uncontrolled fire.

Emil Swenson, who was born in Denmark but raised in Varberg, designed the first steel skyscraper in New York City.

But in 1938, Mies left for the United States and went on to glory as the architect of the definitive glass and steel skyscraper.

It is also the country's first steel skyscraper.

Just take your steel skyscraper, fill the basement with diesel, drop a match and boom......

In 2002, the present headquarters building, a 16-storey glass and steel skyscraper known as the I&M Bank Tower, was opened on Kenyatta Avenue, in Nairobi's central business district.

To the south and to the west, the dazzling steel skyscrapers of the downtown city with its high roaring freeways and busy cruise-ship docks.

While the exterior skin of the Guaranty expresses a new form for the steel skyscraper, its plan indicates those hard realities of function necessary to construct such a building and to sell it.

The George Cutter Building and the NCNB Building across the street may have been the state's first Miesian glass and steel skyscrapers.

The company's 1950 stainless steel skyscraper at 16th and Cherry Streets, and the 1991 Bell Atlantic Tower at 19th and Arch Streets both follow this pattern.