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 ...

When a fire breaks out in a high-rise building, conventional wisdom is that stairwells are the only way out. Lifts are verboten in such scenarios, while sheer height typically prevents any other ...

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 ...

The increased demand for responsive and quality healthcare facilities combined with Seattle’s constrained geography gives rise to more high-rise construction to serve a growing population.

The sudden stop in the drive to build high-rise flats on Bristol’s industrial sites has been welcomed by the city’s former mayor, who said he was ‘heartened’ to discover that a ‘perfect storm’ was ...

On Tuesday night, the Raleigh City Council apporved a rezoning proposal that could reshape Raleigh's skyline. Developers asked leaders to rezone more than two acres of the downtown area to allow for a ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Ann Arbor’s skyline has two notable additions with new high-rises completed in August, including the tallest building the city has seen in over half a century. And several more big ...