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Prefab Plyscraper: World’s Tallest Timber Building Tops Out at 173 Feet

On the University of British Columbia's campus in Vancouver, a new record-setting wood structures highlights the many advantages of a growing trend: vertical timber construction. Brock Commons ...

Pillars of Green: 85,000 Plants on World’s Largest Vertical Garden Facade

An extensive living facade system in Bogota, Columbia, represents growth in the right direction, away from unrealistic tree-covered skyscrapers toward more sustainable and useful vertical ...

Risk-Taking Russian Rooftopper: Woman Takes Terrifying Skyscraper Selfies

If you’re afraid of heights, a mere glance at these photos taken by Russian daredevil photographer Angela Nikolau might be enough to give you the heebie-jeebies. The 23-year-old scales some of ...

Forest Cities: Tree-Covered Urban Architecture to Combat Smog in China

A new series of treescrapers designed for Nanjing, China, aim to combat air pollution with plant-covered towers, but this bold vision may represent hubris more than hope. Architect Stefano ...

Ouroborus Buildings: Artist Loops Infinite Skyscrapers Back on Themselves

What would architecture look like if it had no beginning or end, no ground floor as starting point nor rooftop terminus? Artist Vasco Mourao explores exactly that question in his series ...

Waste Not: The Trash Can that Inspired the World’s Tallest Condo Tower

432 Park Avenue in Manhattan has taken criticism for various reasons since well before it was completed, but its source of inspiration makes it almost too easy: the skyscraper was inspired by a ...

Spiraling Skyscrapers: Rounding Up the World’s Tallest Twisting Towers

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, an organization responsible for world records in architecture, has announced its definitive list of the world's highest twisting ...

Cities of Bone: Organic Future Skyscrapers Free of Concrete & Steel

Our cities have grown up thanks to concrete and steel, but these materials are far from sustainable, leading architects and researchers to explore new (and old) materials, from wood to eggshell ...

World’s Tallest Wood-Framed Skyscraper Proposed for London

An angular affair of wood and glass, this proposed skyscraper is designed to reach nearly 1,000 feet in the air and, if it goes forward, will be the first timber-framed tower in London and ...

Sky Slide: L.A. Tower Adds Exterior Glass Chute 1,000 Feet Up

A new amusement offering on the 70th floor of the highest skyscraper on the West Coast is stepping up the game, going beyond glass viewing platforms, swimming pools and bridges to boast a ...

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