supertalls

You remember the hell pit, don’t you? That giant abandoned hole punched in the Chicago landscape? Here’s a plan to…

A building boom of supertalls in New York City is resulting in some of the highest residential units in the…

Over the last two decades, a new type of building has invaded New York City: The super skinny supertall known as a…

Can we pause for just a minute to commend the fine people of Brooklyn for approving such a good-looking building as…

Upper Manhattan-dwelling New Yorkers have been complaining for years that supertalls are going to ruin the views…

Last Saturday, Los Angeles was treated to the dramatic arrival of the Skyslide, a 45-foot glass tube that will soon…

Applying the term “housing crisis” to the fact that people increasingly cannot afford to live in many American…

An awesome-looking 73-story tower planned for downtown Brooklyn could add hundreds of apartments to a city that…

When you think of supertalls you probably think of pricey real estate—not leafy parks in the sky. A new 1000-foot…

Who really lives in all those awful luxury skyscrapers going up all over the US? Increasingly: No one. Now the…

Watching a 63-story Dubai hotel explode into flames on New Year’s Eve and smolder well into New Year’s Day, you…

The crop of new skyscrapers going up on 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan are very tall, whisper thin, and—yawn—rather…

A crop of new skyscrapers are coming due over the next five years–and with them, nine new observation decks that…

Here’s the latest update for the new tallest-building contender in the US: Nordstrom Tower, the superskinny…

Last time we checked in with the Nordstrom Tower, a superskinny supertall going up in Midtown Manhattan, a sneaky…

Most “best-of” lists for buildings focus on superlatives: tallest, prettiest, most expensive. For the past 50 days, T…

The World Trade Center’s 107th floor observation deck opened last week with some pretty stunning views of New York…

The night Hurricane Alicia struck Houston in the summer of 1983, shattering high-rise windows downtown and stacking…

Stephen DeSimone, president of DeSimone Consulting Engineers in New York, is engineering a new kind of skyscraper.…

It has been a month of supertall news to top them all, with the World Trade Center’s record-breaking 1,776-foot…