The City of London has introduced a set of guidelines for proposed developments to protect pedestrians and cyclists from wind tunnels created by the increasing ...

Tougher building rules for skyscrapers have been drawn up by the City of London because of concerns that a high-rise, urban microclimate will generate winds ...

With a very bold and pioneering move, the UK for the first time is prioritizing cyclists and pedestrians. The city is making pressures on skyscrapers by issuing new ...

Supertall buildings don't just have to be places for people to live and work. Futuristic concepts imagine skyscrapers as landfills, forests, data storage towers, and ...

London to ban designs that cause dangerous gusts … sudden end to freedom of movement under no deal … and chicken boxes turned back on Home Office.

For more than a century, countries have raced to build the worlds tallest buildings with concrete and steel. Now, a quiet contest in constructing tall wooden ...

In many ways, skyscrapers came to define the 20th century. Rising out of skeletons of steel, iron, and glass, they showed a new landscape and ecosystem to the ...

With the looming presence social media has over the built environment, iconic buildings have never been easier to track down, especially as platforms like ...

Why make tall buildings? Because we can! From all around the globe, these structures are feats of engineering marvel.

Architectural designer and visualiser Honglin Li has proposed deploying floating high-rise waste-to-energy plants fuelled by plastic to clean up the oceans.

In the world of IT security, disarray should be considered public enemy No. 1.

The job of a corporate skyscraper is normally to communicate two essential qualities: power and prestige. The design is not expected to be fun. It is not ...

Air conditioning is used to avoid greenhouse effect but cooling buildings adds to carbon emissions.

My stomach turns slightly as I walk on to the glass-bottomed floor at the top of the Dubai Frame. I am standing 500ft up in a giant golden picture frame (this is ...

Architectural designer Honglin Li wants to build a massive skyscraper in the ocean to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Data from seismic sensors in buildings across Southern California show how the 7.1 Ridgecrest earthquake produced surprisingly long periods of shaking in ...

Throwing up skyscrapers and ignoring the "step down" rule of gradually decreasing heights coming away from Canary Wharf could spell the end of the Isle of ...

The dragon-inspired building sold for a bargain $734 million after it was confiscated from an exiled billionaire.

The developer behind Tokyo's landmark Roppongi Hills is betting on another upscale project that has been more than 30 years in the making and will require a ...

Dh69b worth of landmark projects are currently underway across the UAE, with Dubai taking the lion's share.

The 40-storey building, estimated to be worth over £824m, was put on sale after being seized from fugitive billionaire Guo Wengui.

53 west 53 - the jean nouvel-designed skyscraper currently under construction next door to new york's MoMA - has unveiled the first images of its interiors.

A French climber known as "Spiderman" has scaled a Hong Kong skyscraper and put up a banner urging peace in the city rocked by political unrest.

US President Donald Trump humorously returned on Monday to his desire to buy Greenland in Denmark, promising not to build a skyscraper on the Arctic island ...

With power-generating glass, traditional building façades can harvest solar energy and convert it into electricity producing windows. These Smart Windows ...

When it was completed in 1915, New York's Equitable Building was the largest building in the world.

Brandywine Realty Trust unveiled master plans Thursday for the first two mixed-use towers at Schuylkill Yards, the rapidly-developing area near 30th Street ...

For centuries, the quiet Gulf country of Oman was a center of Indian Ocean trade. Now, flush with oil money and with an eye toward a more sustainable.

Editors' Choice 2019 Skyscraper Competition. Chih-Ting Yeh Taiwan. Each year, 1,000 or more people die in the war because when military conflicts between ...

A California appeals court determined Wednesday that the environmental analysis of a $1 billion, skyline-altering development next to Hollywood's iconic ...

An iconic Beijing skyscraper which was seized from a fugitive businessman has sold in an online auction for over £600 million. The Pangu Plaza Tower 5 was ...

Editors' Choice 2019 Skyscraper Competition. Isra Kamal Khurshed Iraq. Major types of pollution include air pollution, light pollution, noise pollution, thermal ...

In every state, there are skyscrapers known for their quirky architecture, like the Batman-inspired AT&T Building in Nashville.

CHARLOTTE — A North Carolina developer says it's agreed to purchase Bank of America's new tower in Charlotte in what would be the most expensive office ...

US president tweets picture of skyscraper in remote coastal village.

Beijing's Pangu Plaza, one of the city's most distinctive buildings, sold for $734 million earlier this week in an online auction.

A dragon-headed skyscraper in Beijing has been sold for £610 million in an online auction after being seized by the government from its fugitive owner.

Removing height restrictions in the central city would be a boon for retailers and developers.

The image of the Singapore flag projected on the facades of the world-renowned Burj Khalifa and Dubai Festival City Mall(far left) last Friday to celebrate ...

TOKYO -- Japan's capital is set to lay claim to the country's tallest building in 2023, when developer Mori Building aims to complete a 330-meter towe.

Construction has begun on the Heatherwick Studio-designed Toranomon-Azabudai district in central Tokyo, which will include Japan's tallest skyscraper.

The Frenchman ascended to the top of Cheung Kong Centre in about an hour, unveiling a banner promoting peace along the way.

Bee Breeders announces the winners of the SKYHIVE Skyscraper Challenge. Architects, design students, engineers, and artists generate ideas for iconic ...

A parking garage wall that borders the outdoor terrace of a 35-floor skyscraper in downtown Chicago now plays host to a 95ft by 25¾ft light-art installation ...

Skyscrapers have defined the skylines of global cities for over a hundred years and are often indicative of an upwardly mobile city. Always a point of.

A window washer was on the 58th floor just after noon when one of the ropes securing him broke.

Barely 20 years ago, the Square Mile's eastern fringe was a dowdy, lowrise, second-tier commercial zone, unloved by home buyers and renters alike.

Imagine arriving at the Sheep Meadow in Central Park intending to lie on a blanket in the warm afternoon sun, as you have done many times before, only to find ...

China and Hong Kong's super-rich buy up everything from skyscrapers to private schools.

IN THE MIDDLE of the afternoon on August 19th South America's largest city went dark. Under a thick, black cloud at 3pm, the lights flickered on in São Paulo's ...

The practice formally handed in documents for the 116.5m-tall, 9.5m-wide scheme at 211 Broad Street, having also recently lodged plans for a 61-storey tower ...

In 2018, Hong Kong was the most visited city on earth, welcoming more than 65 million arrivals. This year, the former British colony has been more readily ...

On the heels of the elevator malfunction that killed a man in Kips Bay this week, home search platform Localize.city has published a list of New York's ten ...

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Hotel giant Marriott announced in April that it's planning to construct a 26-story skyscraper in New York City in just 90 days.

Singapore—Nearly a year after a ban in Hong Kong, Alain Robert, commonly known as the 'French Spider-Man' scaled one of the City's skyscrapers on Friday, ...

YEREVAN, AUGUST 23, ARMENPRESS. Armenia's Minister of Economy Tigran Khachatryan held a meeting with Laura Investment representatives to discuss ...

Asian developer Perennial Real Estate Holdings has dealt a blow to Eric Parry Architects' approved plans to build the tallest tower in the City of London.

A 44-storey skyscraper in Beijing has been sold for £610 million in an online auction after being seized by the government from its fugitive owner, The Times ...

French "Spiderman" climber Alain Robert scaled up Hong Kong's Cheung Kong Center and unfurled a banner with 'a message of peace', as the territory geared ...

Alan Jones wants Planning Minister Rob Stokes sacked for not backing the Star casino tower in Pyrmont. Sky's Graham Richardson called Stokes a coward and ...

Salt Lake City's downtown is thriving — and changing. Young, educated and tech-smart workers are moving into condos and apartments close to their jobs and ...

The dangers of an asteroid striking the Earth is something that space agencies and scientists around the world are constantly researching. We already know of ...

Applauded for its sustainability but vilified for triggering mass tourism, the coastal city has some of the most iconic skyscrapers in the country.

A Beijing skyscraper confiscated from a fugitive Chinese billionaire was sold in an online auction Tuesday for 5.18 billion yuan (US$734 million), the latest twist ...

Editors' Choice 2019 Skyscraper Competition. Umut Baykan, DoÄŸuÅŸcan Aladag United Kingdom. Tourism is a socio-economic phenomenon. It enables people ...

It's set to be the second-highest tower in all of Seattle—and as of last week, it already kind of is. The last steel beam was placed on the Rainier Square building ...

DENVER — A prime piece of downtown Denver real estate where a developer once proposed to build an 81-story skyscraper — the tallest building by far in the ...

The land deal that was allegedly going to bring an 81-story skyscraper to downtown Denver fell apart a year an half ago and now the lot has sold to another ...

Architect Trey Trahan has shelved his ambitious plans to develop a 24-story pencil-shaped building of luxury condominiums in downtown Baton Rouge. Trahan ...

Architectural designer and visualiser Honglin Li has proposed deploying floating high-rise waste-to-energy plants, fuelled by plastic waste, to clean up the ...

For many, architect Jeanne Gang is best known for designing Aqua, a skyscraper in Chicago that appears to be made not of concrete and metal but of silk and ...

The Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco's second-tallest building and an icon of the city's financial might for four decades, is being marketed for sale for the ...

A jury verdict allowing the U.S. government to seize a midtown Manhattan office tower that it said was effectively controlled by Iran was thrown out on Friday by a ...

When Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil *Service*, Minster for the Union and Novelty Infrastructure Tsar Boris Johnson visited Belfast ...

Rather than restoring the 101-year-old Utah Theater to its past glory, Salt Lake City officials are eyeing a plan to redevelop the site on Main Street into a new ...

Kengo Kuma & Associates have proposed a new 40-story mixed-use skyscraper incorporating a historic Gothic Revival facade in Seattle.

Hill West Architects has released new renderings for 11 Lawton Street, New Rochelle's first skyscraper. YIMBY first reported on the permit filing in June for the ...

IRELAND's tallest building, which is to be built in the heart of Cork City subject to planning permission, will be visible for miles from locations across the city and ...

When the New School building at 66 West 12th Street was constructed in the early 20th century, director Alvin Johnson wanted to create a permanent home for ...

Are foreign states and their property immune from civil forfeiture suits brought by the U.S. government? The Second Circuit recently held that the Foreign ...

DETROIT (WWJ) -- The skyscraper being erected on the site of the old Hudson's Department Store was supposed to be the tallest building in Michigan, topping ...

juxtaposed against backgrounds of towering skyscrapers, the dead space images by finbarr fallon present a serene yet uneasy landscape.

When you don't have space to expand, you move up. This is the case with many of the new, slender skyscrapers sprouting up all over Manhattan. One building ...

Scheme says it aims to increase public transport use, but has been criticised at a time when working class Mancunians face 'increasing costs'

Padel is a tennis-like sport with a racquet that looks a bit like a giant table-tennis paddle with a grid of holes in it. Now, researchers at the Polytechnic University ...

conceived by US-based architectural designer honglin li, 'FILTRATION' is a floating skyscraper imagined to clean up our seawater by recycling the plastic and ...

Plans for a 61-storey skyscraper, which would be the tallest building in Birmingham, have been revealed as part of a £150m scheme.

Federal investigators are scrutinizing operations of the owners of one of downtown Dallas' skyscrapers.Austin-based investor World Class Holdings...

YIMBY checked out 75 Nassau Street, the site of a tree-topped 40-story residential skyscraper designed by ODA and developed by Lexin Capital.

Japan's tallest skyscraper will dominate Tokyo's city skyline in March 2023, with developer Mori Building yesterday unveiling a new mega-project on the fringe of ...

Odile Decq has unveiled the design for her first new residential building and luxury skyscraper in Barcelona, Spain. Called Antares, the project will be sited ...

THE Red Arrows have joined their US counterparts in a historic 19-aircraft flight down New York's Hudson River and around the Statue of Liberty. Hundreds of ...

Watch the 70-story tower rise 836 feet in less than a minute.

Rapid urbanisation has created a world obsessed with concrete. Between 2011 and 2013, China used more concrete than the US did in the entire 20th century.

British Columbia has doubled height limits allowed for timber towers – and countries around the world are following suit.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has outdone himself financially this year: the actor and former wrestler was named No. 1 on Forbes' list of highest paid actors for ...

STOCKTON — Phil Trompetter hadn't rappelled in about 25 years. And never had he descended anything as tall as the 11-story California Building in downtown ...

The July 5 seismic event with a 7.1 magnitude that struck Ridgecrest, California, located more than 120 miles from downtown Los Angeles, was the strongest ...

The entertainment industry has forever and successfully mined a deep well of “fish out of water� stories. From “The Odyssey� to “Gulliver's Travels,� “A ...