We've rounded up 10 contemporary skyscrapers from around the world that use materials besides mirrored glass on the facades.
We have read about tall skyscrapers until today but there is also a skyscraper that, besides being beautiful is also the ...
That title goes to Hong Kong, which boasts an impressive 563 buildings over 492 feet high, according to the latest report from the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. This means that Hong ...
Demand for homes in super tall towers being built in the UAE continues to increase, with developers expecting billions of ...
They expose the fissures in society, between those who have a well-built home, an insurance policy, or somewhere else to ...
A massive 597-foot-tall skyscraper was once meant to be a luxury building, but instead it lies abandoned and has become an eerie ghost tower. Intended to transform the Tianjin skyline in northern ...
The skyscraper is planned to be completed in 2019. If so, it will be the tallest in the world and the first building taller than one kilometer. Shanghai World Financial Center. 492 metres tall and ...
Much can (and has) been written about the pros and cons of tall buildings, but this article is more concerned with their historical development, which can be divided into four distinct 'Ages'.
A 30-storey skyscraper in Bangkok crumbled like a pack of cards last week when a powerful earthquake struck Thailand and its ...
Normally you'd never notice it, but all tall buildings sway a little in the wind. Scarcity of land is forcing us to build skyscrapers taller and build them on smaller and smaller bases.
Anchored by Hood's 66-storey-tall 30 Rockefeller Plaza (formerly called the RCA Building), the complex featured 14 art deco buildings with impressive setbacks commissioned by the Rockefeller family.