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1.     “//the old cast iron buildings died out. I'm not really sure whether the new skyscrapers killed them, or the new esthetics//” To me, cast iron and steel represent a gift to architects, because these two materials reveal for all of us that dreams and evolution and impacted structures which they have in their dreams and minds. So it was incredible pass by to lot of wood and clay bricks bring to a beams and a few numbers of deep pillars, so that dream came true and magnificent metal begin to have more and more important in the order of construction, so when the steel came, it was a material more resistance and durability to reach the expectation and new forms to conceive. From this moment, steel and cast iron and the others metals became the most important elements within skyscrapers construction. Concluding, the cast iron is not dead yet, but has been wrapped in a new era of metals and construction techniques; but deep down exist in our skyscrapers around the world. 2.