Fears of the coronavirus pandemic and the sharp shifts by companies to allow employees to work from home could devastate the nation’s office skyscrapers, some economists say. But real estate ...

Here’s how a few American cities are growing ... but thanks to better engineering methods, tall buildings can be seismically sound. Now San Francisco needs to battle crippling height ...

Jason Barr is an economist who studies skyscrapers. Or ... and architecture reflects the booms and busts of the American economy over the last century. A timeline of skyscraper construction ...

construction of them in North American countries continues to increase. Below are six proposed skyscrapers planned for construction in cities outside of New York. David Childs, of Chicago-based ...

One thing that coronavirus lockdowns showed employers over the past few months is that many Americans can work effectively from home -- and fairly efficiently, too. The question now is what that ...

We can trace our answer back to the 1880s, when the first generation of skyscrapers appeared in ... This specification still holds good today. The American technological revolution of 1880 to ...

Our next Art Deco Centenary profile looks at American architect Raymond Hood, whose knack for skyscrapers led to him being branded the "brilliant bad boy of architecture". Hood's buildings include ...

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