What is a skyscraper and how tall must a building be to be considered a skyscraper? I propose to consider a skyscraper a building of at least 20 floors and/or at least 60 metres in height.

My own personal opinion is that it should be above 100 meters before it can be called a skyscraper.

60-70 m would be a reasonable height to call a building a scyscraper.... At least for Europe... It's a little different on other continents.

Hell yeah... what I mean was a building at least 20 floors high and each floor at least 3 metres tall. How about floors/stories? I think this way:

A. Low-rise: 6 to 19 floors
B. High-rise: 20 to 35 floors
C. Sky-scraper: 36+ floors

Please throw a better categorisation for tall buildings if you have one. :bash:

The current building code in Oslo assumes that a 12-story building is 42 meters tall, and that buildings taller than this are high-rises. This means that each floor is assumed to be 3.5 meters, and that a skyscraper after my own 100-meter definition should have approximately 28 stories.

No matter who you ask in Oslo they will tell you that we have two skyscrapers, and these happen to be the two buildings taller than 100 meters:

1. Radisson SAS Plaza Hotel (117 m) - Skyscraper
2. Biskop Gunnerus gate (111 m) - Skyscraper
3. Uranienborg kirke (70 m) - A church tower
4. Radisson SAS Scandinavia (67 m) - High-rise
5. Rådhuset 1 (City Hall) (66 m) - High-rise
6. Økernsenteret (65 m) - High-rise
7. Rådhuset 2 (63 m) - High-rise
8. KPMG-bygget (62 m) - High-rise
9. Helsfyr Panorama (60 m) - High-rise
10. Stenersgata 2 (59 m) - High-rise

I agree with NiceGuy. A building should only be described as skyscraper if it's of significant height, like 100 metres. For floor count I would set 25 stories. When it comes to floor-floor height that's one is more difficult since it's only office buildings with more than 3 metres height. The standard for residential buildings is 2,70 metres.

A 60 metre tall building is not what can be described as a skyscraper no matter where on earth you are IMO.

I agree with NiceGuy too.
If 12floors - highrise
If 100m - skyscraper.

by Tallinn codes...
everything above 8 or 8 floors is classified as a highrise - it comes with the lenght of firetruck ladders or something, that its not that easy to "put out" :)

But i think 150+ is a skyscraper.

For many Danes a building with 7 or more floors is a skyscraper:hammer:

I personally count 12 floors and up as high-rise (maybe because I'm so used to it?). Anyway, for skyscraper definition I would say around 100 m is a good limit.

The way skyscrapers are normally defined in the U.S is 500 feet, which aquals about 152m. Now considering that the U.S (more specifically Chicago) is the home of the skyscraper, I think this is the best definition.

I usually use these definitions:

Low-rise: 7 to 12 floors
High-rise: 12 floors (35m) to 35 floors (100m)
Skyscraper: 100m/ 35 floors +

So by some of your standards a building say of 99.9 meters or 149.9 is not a skyscraper?

I think 150+ is a skyscraper. Skyscraper is supposed to be a building that is high enough to be awe-inspiring. I like Plaza and Posthuset, and they are tall, but I never think of them as 'scraping the sky'. When I was in Toronto as a kid, though, the buildings seemed to go into space.

For many Danes a building with 7 or more floors is a skyscraper:hammer:
i was just about to post that....

I usually use these definitions:

Low-rise: 7 to 12 floors
High-rise: 12 floors (35m) to 35 floors (100m)
Skyscraper: 100m/ 35 floors +

up to now i thought low-rise is 2 - 4-5 floors. maybe till 7. but not 7-12. probably misbelieved.

I think 150+ is a skyscraper. Skyscraper is supposed to be a building that is high enough to be awe-inspiring. I like Plaza and Posthuset, and they are tall, but I never think of them as 'scraping the sky'. When I was in Toronto as a kid, though, the buildings seemed to go into space.
exactly... same opinion here :)

May be 150 m is better, indeed (Then Riga will have not more than one in future and none - today...)

I would like 100m for a scraper and something like 35m for a highrise, coz if we take 150m than we won`t have a big variety of skyscrapers in S&B :|

150+ meters seems like a good height

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i think that a skyscraper shold be defined as a building with the height of 150+ meters... otherwise every third house in europe is a skyscraper(theoretically speaking)