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In neighborhoods where tall buildings are banned, we need to plant more trees, which block the sun and cool the air. Few ...
In the early 1970s, Davis Brody Architects designed three impressive and major “towers in a park” apartment complexes in New York — Waterside, Ruppert, and River Park Towers — that all featured tall, ...
Tall buildings: Good for the housing crisis, bad for the climate crisis The UN climate report pinpoints the biggest culprit behind overheated cities.
Welcome to 5050 Fifth Avenue, the newest in a crop of super-tall and extremely narrow New York City residential buildings! Of course, there are many tall buildings in the world, but few match this ...
From remote viewing platforms to high-profile museums, architects are using cantilevers to add height or unusual proportions to their buildings.
Given the land required to build tall buildings and the carbon-intense building materials like aluminum and steel it takes to construct them, a neighborhood of skyscrapers would result in about ...
A group of developers wants to construct what would be America’s tallest building in an unlikely place: Oklahoma City.
The current tallest residential building in New York City (and the world) is 432 Park Ave., which is 1,396 feet tall — 154 feet shy of Central Park Tower’s height.
Mandyck thinks there's a way to maintain tall buildings, and even build a few more in cities that need them, while combating both the housing and climate crisis.
Tall buildings are leaving cities in darkness. These architects have a radical fix As cities get denser, designers are getting more creative about preserving precious access to sun and air.
The race to build the tallest timber building makes the news, but mid-rise construction is where using timber can make the biggest sustainability impact.
Gary Barnett's extended Extell empire is rising all over New York City, but nowhere with more controversy than on 57th Street. Superscraper One57's ascent is over, apartments are in contract and ...