Singapore Skyscapers by ming

“What is the chief characteristic of the tall office building? It is lofty. It must be tall. The force and power of altitude must be in it, the glory and pride of exaltation must be in it. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exaltation that from bottom to top it is a unit without a single dissenting line.”

—Louis Sullivan

That’s a quote from Louis Sullivan, the American architect who was ”father of modernism”.

To me it is soaring, rising, tall buildings. What’s ‘skyscraper’ in your terms?