The highlighted innovations stand to revolutionize the technology, sustainability, and efficiency of high-rise building construction and operation, according to the organization. The Innovation Awards ...

A NEW ERA OF HIGH-DENSITY DESIGN. Since the 1960s, global urbanization rates—the amount of people gravitating toward urban locations—has continued to gradually rise, with research suggesting 2007 may ...

City center buildings of the future will need to take advantage of vertical space through smart and efficient design and technologies. The Regenerative Highrise concept does all of this and more ...

In fast-growing cities, especially in Asia and the Middle East, new skyscrapers are completed regularly, shifting the ...

For example, if you have a 30-story building, you will likely find a low-rise bank of elevators that serves floors 1 through 10, a mid-rise bank that serves floors 10 through 20 and a high-rise ...

But the design of towers differs according to their age and the culture of the country they are in, and the US has a pretty good record of fire safety in high rise buildings, says Nathan B. Wittasek, ...

When Richard Meier unveiled in 2000 his first project in New York City, a luxury condo building overlooking the Hudson River, ... High-Rise Design; Architecture: High-Rise Design. 2 minute read.

The Lancaster County nonprofit is collaborating with local real estate firms to transform a 50,000 square-foot downtown ...

Architect Hubert Klumpner, a professor of Architecture and Urban Design at ETH Zurich, believes that communities could ultimately build their own high-rise structures, too. But in many cases this ...

It’s not your imagination, Honolulu is packed with high-rises. In fact, it ranks sixth in the United States —right behind San Francisco—and 30th in the world among cities with the most skyscrapers, ...

The Design District has about 3,000 residents and will see more high-rise buildings, Nambiar said. Advertisement “The success of Uptown was the fact that they brought a lot of residential,” he ...