Even before the Empire State Building officially opened on May 1, 1931, it represented something greater than just the world’s tallest office building. From the moment of its conception in August 1929 ...

America’s battered office market is holding a fire sale, featuring some buildings marked down by more than 90%. In Chicago, real-estate developer Marc Calabria bought a 485,000-square-foot office ...

Michael Pawlyn is the founder of Exploration Architecture in London and the author of Biomimicry in Architecture (3rd edn 2025). People spend most of their time in buildings, and these shelters are ...

Skyscrapers that seem to rise endlessly above the cities at their feet fascinate more than just architecture enthusiasts. And nothing proves that more than the tallest buildings in the world. Their ...