San Francisco is a self-consciously civilized place, pleased by its reasonable scale and unreasonable hills, proud of the slightly loopy beaux arts buildings and the great swaths of pastel houses, ...

The Skyscraper Museum continues its lecture series In Situ: The Modern Concrete Skyscraper, which examines key experiments in concrete construction and the range of paradigmatic concrete skyscrapers ...

The Museum's director, Carol Willis, will offer a gallery tour of The Modern Concrete Skyscraper, which examines the hidden history of concrete in tall buildings. This exhibition reveals why, today, ...

Detroit's J.L. Hudson Building: From historic landmark to modern skyscraper Explore the transformation of Detroit's iconic J.L. Hudson building from its origins in 1911 as the world's tallest ...

It is hard to imagine that for thousands of years, the Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest manmade structure in the world. However, like the Lincoln Cathedral and the Washington Monument, which also ...

Architecture in the 20th century was defined by a single dominant style: modernism. This design movement transformed the ...

In the heart of Toronto, a modern skyscraper race is reshaping the skyline. Two architectural titans—One Bloor West and Pinnacle International’s Sky Tower—are competing to claim the title of Toronto’s ...