Our cities have become monuments of concrete and steel. Concrete and steel are durable, but they’re also immense sources of greenhouse gases and require large amounts of energy to prduce. The building ...
A Chinese company thinks they've simplified the construction process so much that they can build the world's tallest skyscraper in 90 days. Broad Sustainable Building Corporation will lay the ...
Once a week, two Samet construction workers strap 360-degree cameras to their hard hats and begin the slow march through every floor of The Novus, a glassy 27-story skyscraper under construction in ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Built on a triangular plot of land right in the center of the city, the twisting form of the Vancouver House skyscraper bends around the nearby ...
What is the tallest skyscraper we could build? This video explains how tall we could really build and compares the sizes of the Burj Khalifa, Jeddah Tower, X-Seed 4000, Tokyo Tower of Babel, The ...
Skyscrapers are on the rise across the globe, with 2014 officially earning the title of the "tallest year ever" from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, which oversees the global ...
When you’ve paid over $75 million for a luxury apartment in this New York skyscraper, you also get state-of-the-art protection against winds. Left unchecked, these can be powerful enough to sway the ...
A proposal has been submitted to build a new skyscraper in San Francisco that would eclipse the city's 61-story Salesforce Tower and become the tallest building on the West Coast. Mayor Daniel Lurie ...