Burnham and Root greatest and most recognized skyscrapers were three wall-bearing structures. One of their most famous works was …show more content…
It is one of the great marvels and beauties of the 19th century. The Monadnock is essentially two thin connected buildings that go through north and south alongside Dearborn Street in Chicago. The weight of this building is distrusted by means of a steel skeleton in which a metal framework is use without any load bearing walls. The Monadnock hoisted at 215 feet tall with sixteen stories and measured 200 feet north to south and seventy feet east to west. Both splits of the Monadnock are not odds with each other despite having different architectural