Pennzoil Place, completed in 1976, "really invented shaped tops for postwar skyscrapers," says architectural historian Stephen Fox. "In the '50s and '60s, it seemed like something that was gone ...

It took four years and 930 pieces to create the world's tallest modular skyscraper, ... since cohesive aesthetics are ... (red for historic brownstones and blue for the modern skyscrapers).

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eVolo Magazine has announced the winners of its 2019 Skyscraper Competition.Now in its 14th year, the annual award was established to recognize “visionary ideas for building [high-rise] projects ...

Skyscrapers can be better. The difficulty of making an elegant symbolic presence out of an immense vertical machine has been vexing architects for more than a century. And yet it must be done.

Over the past two decades, New York skyscrapers have predominantly shared a similar aesthetic thanks to blue glass used to sheathe them. Nearly all the towers in the clusters around the World ...

The world’s skinniest skyscraper is now complete — and its interiors are remarkable Fashion moves in Will Dolce&Gabbana’s fashion cachet translate into desirable US real estate?

Overtaking the Tour First skyscraper, the 48-story, 220-meter HEKLA Tower will be the tallest building in Paris’s La Défense business district, as well as the second tallest building in all of ...

The proposal for developer BentallGreenOak involves the demolition of a 1960s office building at 31 Bury Street, near the Gherkin, and a new tall, slim office tower clad in light-blue terracotta.