The design drawings should have highlighted the need for the expansion joint to traverse an outside corner. The construction team should have made an effort to anticipate the interfacing materials, ...

Massing Studies for an office building. Don’t get me wrong, I am not against technology; it has its place in the creative journey. Consider these studies, which help explain the massing evolution.

After several centuries of interruption, the master-builder tradition has reemerged as design-build delivery. Thanks to ...

De Chant kindly asks architects to “please stop drawing trees on top of skyscrapers.” From his post: Want to make a skyscraper look trendy and sustainable? Put a tree on it. Or better yet, dozens.

The project's concept drawings show a unique structure in the form of a slender, glass-lined building that begins and ends on solid ground. At 4000 ft. in length, if the structure were to be built ...

The no-shadow skyscraper is actually a set of twin towers that twist around each other. Their reflective facades are angled just-so to direct sunlight bouncing off one tower into the shadow of the ...

business Real Estate. Cityplace high-rise on the drawing board for original skyscraper site Developers of Dallas' Cityplace project are planning an office and hotel tower on site of 1980s skyscraper.

Elisha Otis' elevator patent drawing, 15 January 1861. Via Wikimedia Commons.. Today, in conjunction with the implementation of the steel frame, the Otis elevator is generally considered the ...

Sabin-Schellenberg Center students placed second in a National Skyscraper Challenge. Participants include Brett Sonflieth (front, center) -- who built both models -- and Logan Gillis (from left ...

In Albania’s capital Tirana, where a spate of new towers will soon transform the skyline, architects have revealed plans for a new double skyscraper that will bend elegantly like a ballet dancer ...