The famous observation decks of 20th-century buildings—the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the World Trade Center—were low-tech but thrilling open-air platforms ringed by coin-operated ...

Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) has announced the International High-Rise Award 2024/25. Selected from more than 1,000 new high-rises worldwide dating from the past two years, the nominated projects ...

Researchers in Canada have proposed using gravity-based energy storage in high-rise buildings, in combination with photovoltaic facades, small wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries. Their modeling ...

Even today, there is ongoing debate among builders, safety experts and first responders about whether New York City is doing enough to reduce the risks of high-rise fire catastrophes—all as a new ...

Sometimes there’s a good reason Massachusetts has different rules than the rest of the nation. For example, we pioneered universal health insurance coverage and free public schools. But sometimes ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — It’s getting harder to keep track of all the high-rise developments in Ann Arbor as more and more keep getting proposed and approved. Several projects that will alter the downtown ...