Experts say there is no easy path to truly sustainable skyscrapers"/> If done in 2015 as expected, Shanghai Tower (center), on its way to 632 m, would rank as the world's second-tallest skyscraper.

These are the tallest buildings ever constructed—starting with the single tallest one in the world. ... “One easy way physically to do that, ... blocky office building’s design is unusual, ...

At 1,396 feet, 432 Park Avenue isn’t the tallest building in New York. But with a height-to-width ratio of 15 to 1, it is one of the skinniest. On windy days, that ratio can cause one little ...

Proposed building would be more than 1,100 feet tall. ... which is currently the world’s tallest wooden building. Drawings of the new tower ... "Timber buildings are very easy to associate ...

The race is always on. Within the span of just two years, the world's tallest building was built three times in New York City – the 282.5-meter Bank of Manhattan in 1930, the 319-meter Chrysler ...

Architects Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler first coined the term “tall office building” in 1896, drawing on the architectural precedent of Italy’s Renaissance palazzi.

Architects Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler first coined the term “tall office building” in 1896, drawing on the architectural precedent of Italy’s Renaissance palazzi.