The famous observation decks of 20th-century buildings—the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the World Trade Center—were low-tech but thrilling open-air platforms ringed by coin-operated ...

Volumetric Building Companies is scaling high-density modular multifamily, student housing and hotel projects, leaning on steel systems for towers. Modular can be 30% to 60% faster, yet economics work ...

Researchers in Canada have proposed using gravity-based energy storage in high-rise buildings, in combination with photovoltaic facades, small wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries. Their modeling ...

Building more high-rise apartments could help alleviate the Las Vegas Valley’s housing crunch, but don’t expect a boom in taller residential buildings anytime soon, experts say. A number of factors ...