Firm Eyes Clean-Energy-Producing Skyscraper along U.S. - Mexico Border

The Future of the City: Tall Buildings and Urban Design By K. Al-Kodmany and M.M. Ali. Chicago: WIT Press, 2013

Discovering Architecture: How the World's Great Buildings Were Designed and Built By Philip Jodidio. New York City: Universe Publishing, 2013

House Report Examines Ways To Improve Nation's Freight Transportation Network

U.K. Research Team Developing Concrete That Heals Its Own Cracks

After much debate and uncertainty, the Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has ruled that the height of One World Trade Center, in New York City, is indeed 1,776 ft, a symbolic number that had been in question because of the mast at the tower's top...

'Top-Down' Approach Resolves D.C. Hotel Project's Deep Site Challenges

Transit Agency Repairs Historic Eads Bridge

Library at NC State Designed for Distinction

Nanjing Art Museum Appears to Float above Rural Setting

The 70,000 sq ft addition to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in Boston, is markedly modern compared with the museum's main building, which resembles a 15th-century Venetian palace...

The Capela �rvore da Vida (Tree of Life Chapel) is a new addition to the Semin�rio Concillar de Braga (St. James Seminary), part of the Catholic Archdiocese of Braga, Portugal...

The first phase of a new, three-story public pool complex in Hong Kong has opened on a roughly triangular section of reclaimed land in the Kennedy Town district, in the northwestern corner of Hong Kong Island...

NewsBriefs: Teen's Treelike Solar Display Shows Promise (PopTech and American Museum of Natural History)

Cagelike Frame Will Support Shanghai Tower's Twisting Curtain Wall

One of the tallest hospital buildings in the world will soon undergo a dramatic face-lift. Guy's Tower opened in 1974, and its height of 143 m has made it a prominent feature in the London borough of Southwark...

NewsBriefs: Deeper Understanding of Spider Silk, Webs May Lead to New Building Designs (MIT and The Christian Science Monitor)

House Subcommittee Examines Proposals For Financing Water Infrastructure

A team of architects has designed the only indoor ski resort...

Piece-by-Piece Face-Lift Saves National Gallery's Facade

 

 

 

 

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