This blog post was authored by architect and structural engineer Charles F. Bloszies FAIA, SE, LEED. The skyscraper is architecture’s ultimate icon. The term itself conjures images of seemingly ...

A car hit by debris form a adjacent building under construction at Ushirika estate in Pangani, Nairobi county. [Collins Oduor, Standard] As high-rise buildings are erected every day to feed Nairobi's ...

Researchers in Canada have proposed using gravity-based energy storage in high-rise buildings, in combination with photovoltaic facades, small wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries. Their modeling ...