Buildings

Carbon emissions from buildings reached an all-time high, according to a new United Nations report. In 2019,…

San Francisco is banning the use of natural gas in any new buildings, requiring them to rely on the electric grid…

Buildings and the construction industry account for 35% of all emissions in the U.S., so it’s clear that any…

We build homes out of bricks for lots of reasons. They’re resilient to high pressure and frost. They can withstand…

“Decarbonize the buildings” may be among the least sexy phrases ever written. But it’s a wildly important thing to…

It’s all but impossible to keep phallic comparisons out of your head when staring up at a towering skyscraper, but…

A building implosion is a one-time thing; once a structure has been razed, there’s no resetting for a take two.…

Thanks to an exterior clad in what look like reflective metal bars, Alain Robert, a professional urban climber,…

Real Life Lore asks a question that I’ve never actually considered before: what if everybody in the entire world…

This is very probably one of the scariest places you can park your bum: at the very edge of a corner of a very tall…

Why should we build taller cities? Because cities with taller buildings are cool as hell.

I’m totally safe and sitting in front of a computer screen, and yet I’m sweating because watching this guy pull his…

This wonderful photo series comparing the size of things by Kevin Wisbith is a really fun way to earn some brain…

So how does a company spend the hundreds of billions of dollars of cash it has on hand? It builds itself a fancy new…

Here’s a compilation of crazy runs, jumps, and parkour tricks from Oleg Cricket, a daredevil who was either born…

Can you imagine if buildings in a city could grow and bend on a whim as if they were living, breathing organisms?…

China’s become known for some of the zaniest, prettiest, most daring architecture of the 21st century. Sadly, that’s…

Wood is the future. That’s the feeling you get after looking through the 2016 award winners named by WoodWorks, the…

Because of the city’s history and because of its unique geography and because of the towering buildings and because…

On New Year’s Eve, the 63-story Address hotel in Dubai caught on fire. It was a scary sight made worse as the back…