The famous observation decks of 20th-century buildings—the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the World Trade Center—were low-tech but thrilling open-air platforms ringed by coin-operated ...

This blog post was authored by architect and structural engineer Charles F. Bloszies FAIA, SE, LEED. The skyscraper is architecture’s ultimate icon. The term itself conjures images of seemingly ...

Onen exception can be found in Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada, where the recently completed Butterfly + First Baptist ...

A hard-hitting House of Lords committee report urges ministers to introduce a more staged approach to Gateway 2 approvals, ...

Three years ago, a high-rise condominium building in my community collapsed, killing 98 people and injuring 11 others. In the late hours of June 24, 2021, the entire east portion of Champlain Towers ...

Bier Stube, a longtime campus bar that closed in September 2024, will soon give way to Columbus’ first mass-timber high-rise building. Harbor Bay Ventures, an Illinois-based timber development company ...

In civil and structural engineering, the word “safe” is often used as the ultimate benchmark of good design. If a structure does not collapse under design loads and meets code requirements, it is ...

Even today, there is ongoing debate among builders, safety experts and first responders about whether New York City is doing enough to reduce the risks of high-rise fire catastrophes—all as a new ...

The Xiaozhuang Campus of the High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University (NSFZ) occupies a 66,700 sq.m site, with a total building area of approximately 95,000 sq.m. A further 17,000 sq.m of ...

Sometimes there’s a good reason Massachusetts has different rules than the rest of the nation. For example, we pioneered universal health insurance coverage and free public schools. But sometimes ...

A high-rise condo in Clearwater is being evacuated due to a support beam splitting, according to Pinellas County Commissioner Chris Latvala. Clearwater first responders went to the South Beach III ...