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 ...

MIAMI — Houston, we have a problem. In 2024, downtown Houston became an unintended laboratory for studying extreme weather impacts when two powerful storms hit the city just months apart. First came a ...

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 ...

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One of Bertrand Goldberg’s twin Marina City towers being built in Chicago. When completed in 1968, the towers were the tallest reinforced concrete structures in the world. (Courtesy Geoffrey Goldberg) ...

This poll has ended (since 1 month). Worcester is home to the three buildings in Central Massachusetts with more than 20 stories, including the 24-story Glass Tower offices, the 21-story office ...

Researchers mapped exactly where buildings are in the world and how much space they take up. The result is a mind boggling ...

Solar-collecting windows could make office buildings and skyscrapers more energy efficient, but harnessing solar power while retaining transparency is a tricky engineering problem. A new study from ...