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Popular Mechanics September 15, 2008 Kevin Hall |
The 10 Next Hot Skyscrapers You Won't Find in Dubai When it comes to tall buildings, all eyes are on the Burj Dubai. But across the world architects have already come up with mega engineering plans vying to be equally mind-blowing. |
Popular Mechanics January 21, 2010 Adam Hadhazy |
Top 8 Skyscrapers That Will Push the Limits of Design Burj Mubarak al Kabir... 1 Dubai... Miapolis... Nakheel Tower... Sky City 1000... Bionic Tower... Kingdom Tower... Millennium Challenge Tower... |
BusinessWeek June 5, 2006 Tom Lowry |
A Whole New View At Hearst Hearst Corp.'s just-finished headquarters is thoroughly modern, and so is its media strategy. |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2008 H. Lee Murphy |
A Building that Breathes With a roof height of 945 feet, the Bank of America Tower under construction in New York City will be the city's second-tallest structure. Management is in pursuit of an elite Platinum LEED certification. |
Bank Technology News October 2006 Karen Krebsbach |
Facilities: Building 'Green' Saves Banks Green Using environmentally friendly building materials saves money and builds goodwill. PNC, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo are taking notice of the trend. |
Popular Mechanics January 11, 2008 |
Four Engineering Breakthroughs Changing the Skyscraper Race Super-strong, next-generation steel... Nanotech-enhanced concrete... Thick cores for disaster... Building in a smart way out... |
Fast Company August 8, 2011 Linda Tischler |
What 9/11 Taught Us About Designing Skyscrapers A new, safer model of skyscraper rises from the site of the attack. |
IEEE Spectrum September 2010 Peter Fairley |
Electronically Controlled Exterior for Green Buildings A sensor-tuned facade lets fresh air in without throwing energy out |
Salon.com September 17, 2001 Eric Boehlert |
New York's most disliked building? The World Trade Center represented the essence of American financial power, but critics hated the towers and the public never embraced them... |
IEEE Spectrum April 2008 Tekla S. Perry |
The Innovation Is In The Details A tour of Stanford University's new Environment & Energy Building, which is filled with innovations that save energy and water and make life inside more pleasant. |
Salon.com September 11, 2001 Bill Wyman |
Why the towers collapsed The jetliners hit the World Trade Center buildings at a vulnerable point... |
Entrepreneur April 2010 Jason Daley |
A Tall Order How Subway landed a franchise atop the steel frame of Manhattan's Freedom Tower. |
Metropolis January 2007 Martin C. Pedersen |
Object Lesson The circumvention of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's day-lighting scheme for Bank of America shows that user education is essential to sustainable design. |
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2002 Parke Chapman |
A Long Way to Go in Lower Manhattan According to real estate data provider CoStar Group, only eight of the 17 buildings near Ground Zero have re-opened. The nine buildings that remain closed account for more than 5.5 million sq. ft. of office space. |
National Real Estate Investor June 6, 2003 Parke Chapman |
Hines Plans New 40-story Chicago Tower Hines will begin construction this fall on a 40-story office tower in Chicago at One Dearborn Street. The 820,000 sq. ft. tower is expected to be finished during the fourth quarter of 2004. |
Popular Mechanics February 3, 2005 |
9/11: Debunking The Myths We examine the evidence and consults the experts to refute the most persistent conspiracy theories of September 11. |
Popular Mechanics June 2007 Jeff Wise |
Re-engineering the Bay Bridge: Built Quake Tough Engineers knew that returning the bridge to its pre-earthquake state wouldn't be enough. They needed to come up with a solution that could withstand some of the worst that California's fault zones are capable of dishing out. |
BusinessWeek November 11, 2010 Mark Gilbert |
London's Rising Towers May Presage a Shrinking Economy As Renzo Piano's "Shard of Glass" rises, other skyscrapers are in the works. Unfortunately, new London towers often foreshadow shrinking economies. |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2008 H. Lee Murphy |
Pride of Nashville Outside of the skyscraper strongholds of Chicago and New York, the really tall buildings have been confined to a handful of urban centers in places like Philadelphia, Atlanta and San Francisco. Nashville was not on that short list. Until now. |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2008 H. Lee Murphy |
Symbols of the Modern World The modern skyscraper, given up officially for dead by real estate investors and developers amid the post-9/11 frenzy of fear, is mounting a comeback. |
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2008 H. Lee Murphy |
A Labor of Indecision For his first project in Chicago, Donald Trump has been dogged by indecision. But the switch from offices to condos and the addition of a hotel didn't force revision of the exterior design all that much. |
AskMen.com November 1, 2000 Dennis O'Connell |
Top 10 Skyscrapers Afraid of heights? This feature is made for you. We have traveled the world at the speed of light to come up with a list of the world's most important skyscrapers in terms of height, social significance, design, and architecture... |
Boating December 2006 |
Tower Of Power Here is how to turn your boat into a wakeboard tow boat. |
National Real Estate Investor December 24, 2003 |
Bank of America to Anchor Major Manhattan Office Project The 2.1 million sq. ft. office tower to be called One Bryant Park will be developed by the Durst Organization. |
Outside February 2009 Nick Heil |
The Tortoise and the Stair No mountain? No problem. As our man discovered, racing up a skyscraper provides a challenge as daunting as many high peaks. |