As urban populations flourish, cities typically expand outward into suburbia or suffer growing pains with static infrastructure that just can't keep up. What if, instead, cities were based upon ...
Your stomach will drop just looking at the stunning photos captured by some of the world's most daring urban explorers, who scale insanely high towers all the way to the top and take casual ...
Illuminated cityscapes multiply and divide in unexpected ways when their nighttime reflections hit the mirrored facades of the skyscrapers found within them. Photographer Donna Dotan, known for her ...
A skyscraper filled with corpses may sound morbid, but soon, such things may become a necessity. The earth is already packed with dead housed in oversized caskets that have been designed to ...
Ubiquitous in nature and mathematics, spirals are beautiful to look at and provide a structure that's strong and stable, so it's no surprise that they turn up so often in architecture, too. ...
If you're rich enough to live in the Porsche Design Tower, you're rich enough to have a mega-expensive car or two worth hauling up to your upper-floor penthouse each day in your very own car ...
Does your high-rise apartment or office tower look like a mobile phone? These ones do, and you can bet smartphone users inside them get REALLY good reception. ...
The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH for short) has coined the term “vanity height” to describe the empty, unoccupied space atop the world's tallest towers. Here are the top ...
Soaring above the city streets, spanning towering skyscrapers or simply providing links between buildings at lower heights, skybridges often host gardens, observation decks and even swimming ...
A nearly-complete London tower is being investigated thanks to reflected daylight that is dazzling (and sizzling) the neighborhood in extreme, surprising and undesirable ways. The structure is ...
