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Up, Up, and Away

The new skyscraper, in all its guises.

By |Updated Wednesday, April 12, 2006, at 7:22 AM ET

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Witold Rybczynski is Slate's architecture critic His latest book is The Biography of a Building: How Robert Sainsbury and Norman Foster Built a Great Museum. Visit his Web site. Follow him on Twitter.