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One of humanity’s worst decisions has to be the pairing of darts with bars full of drunk patrons making terrible…

We finally have our first look at the World Trade Center’s skyscraper, thanks to a Wired exclusive today. But wasn’t…

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

The pop-up city is an idea that dug its way into our collective brain a century ago as the first steel buildings…

It's only been a few years since humans could climb more than half a mile above the surface of the Earth without the…

432 Park Avenue, the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere, is many things: A billionaire magnet; a…

My pores on the palms of my hands are shaking. My caps on my knees are sweating. I'm having trouble breathing. And…

Once upon a time, One World Trade was a trumpeted as the future greenest skyscraper in the world. It turned out to…

When you're building supertalls, there are other problems to worry about than just making sure they don't fall or…

In a remote stretch of the Amazon rainforest, a skinny steel tower will soon rise over 1,000 feet into the…

The Department of Agriculture doesn't usually meddle in architecture, but this week at an event at the White House,…

The 43-story De Rotterdam is Europe's largest building. Inside, however, it's a study in how to live inside a small…

Rent at the 163-story Burj Khalifa doesn't come cheap. While a one-bedroom "only" costs $55,000 a year (according to …

The seam where a city meets the country is an uncanny place. It's not rural, yet not exactly urban, either, a…

"I like watching these buildings burn," says Jing Jing Naihan Li, a young Beijing architect. That would normally…

Proving that all press is good press when it comes to real estate, Rafael Viñoly—the architect behind two recent…

Here in New York, shady brokers have long been known to sell the same apartment to multiple gullible buyers. In…