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Buildering (also known as edificeering, urban climbing, structuring, skywalking, boulding, or stegophily) describes the act of climbing on the outside of buildings and other artificial structures. The word "buildering", sometimes misspelled bildering, combines the word building with the climbing term bouldering .
This list ranks completed and topped-out buildings in the United States that stand at least 800 feet (244 m) tall, based on standard height measurement which includes spires and architectural details, but excludes antenna masts.
Buildering is a discipline with a long history at the fringes and limitless possibility for the future.
Year Game Developer Setting Platform Notes 1964: The Sumerian Game: Mabel Addis: Historical: MAIN: Text-based game based on the ancient Sumerian city of Lagash. [1]1969: The Sumer Game
Buildering, is a subtype of free solo climbing where the climber ascends a public building (or mechanical structure with crane climbing), and usually without any protection. [2] Notable building climbers include Alain Robert (who also made world's first-ever free solo of an 8b (5.13d) climbing route), who has free soloed major buildings ...
A rooftopper on top of Frankfurt Cathedral, Frankfurt, Germany Buildering and rooftopping on a cable-stayed bridge in Kyiv, Ukraine. Rooftopping, sometimes called roofing, refers to the unsecured ascent of rooftops, cranes, antennas, bell towers, smokestacks, or other tall structures, usually illegally. Rooftoppers usually take photos or videos ...
A building or edifice is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls, usually standing permanently in one place, [1] such as a house or factory. [1] Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for numerous factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and ...
This is a part of the list of tallest structures in the world, past and present of any type.. This list includes quite a lot of masts. A mast is a man-made support structure, commonly used on sailing ships as support for sails, or on land as radio masts and towers used to support telecommunication equipment such as radio antennas ("aerials" in the UK).