This skyscraper's extraordinary exterior is not just for show. Designers Triptyque and Architects Office have arranged the building around a concrete exoskeleton, which provides structural support and ...

Humans have long built towering structures to showcase the power of empires, rulers, religions and corporations. Today, more tall buildings are popping up than ever before. But skyscrapers could soon ...

Iconic skylines are one way to immediately identify some cities. Some looming skyscrapers haven't stood the test of time, ending up abandoned or incomplete. Cities must figure out what to do with the ...

It is the tallest building in the world—more than twice the height of the Eiffel Tower. Yet, the race for the tallest skyscraper is far from over. While several buildings already soar far above the ...

In the mid-1880s, Chicago pulled off something nobody else had tried before by building a tall, metal-framed office tower called the Home Insurance Building. We’d call that a skyscraper today. It didn ...