Explore the towering streets of Guizhou, China, where life unfolds within massive high-rise buildings. This ‘vertical city’ ...

The famous observation decks of 20th-century buildings—the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the World Trade Center—were low-tech but thrilling open-air platforms ringed by coin-operated ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades burned through the night, leaving at least 75 people dead and 279 reported missing with rescuers still pulling residents from blazing high-rise ...

Sometimes there’s a good reason Massachusetts has different rules than the rest of the nation. For example, we pioneered universal health insurance coverage and free public schools. But sometimes ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A long-vacant high-rise in downtown Columbia is being redeveloped after sitting empty for four years. The Marion Street High Rise, once home to seniors aged 62 and older, was closed ...

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 ...