Following our feature investigating why skyscrapers are often clad in glass, we've rounded up 10 contemporary skyscrapers ...

Despite criticisms about their environmental impact, glazed skyscrapers continue to spring up in cities around the world. Jon ...

For their proponents, glass skyscrapers remain one of the most powerful and economically attractive ways of staking a claim on a city and skyline. But for their critics, they are gleaming symbols ...

The team behind it said they didn't just want to "put a USB stick into the sky," taking a jab at the plain glass skyscrapers so common today. Story by Ian Phillips and editing by Jeremy Dreyfuss ...

Although contemporary building practices allow us to form huge, glittering skyscrapers of glass that rise hundreds of meters into the air, the ancient material’s original purpose – to welcome ...

Gulp. This walk is not for the faint-hearted. On Thursday, the Jinmao Tower in Shanghai opened its glass skywalk to the public. Daredevil visitors can now walk or sit on the glass walkway for up ...

Without natural or cross ventilation, these glass skyscrapers trap significant heat from solar radiation within habitable spaces, relying almost exclusively on mechanical HVAC systems to cool ...