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National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2008
H. Lee Murphy |
World Title Champion The world's tallest building has been enshrouded in secrecy since the start of construction early in 2006, but the current evidence suggests that Burj Dubai will eventually get to 2,684 feet, with 160 habitable floors.   |
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... |
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
June 2007
Jeff Wise |
Dubai Re-ups Race for World's Tallest Building While builders are keeping their exact plans a secret, the tower will reportedly be more than half a mile high. |
Wired
November 27, 2007
Andrew Blum |
Engineer Bill Baker Is the King of Superstable 150-Story Structures Baker's ascension -- and his buttressed core -- comes at the beginning of the supertall era. People, corporations, and even desert city-states with oversize checkbooks and matching egos are racing to conquer their skylines. Most of them call Bill Baker. |
National Real Estate Investor
April 1, 2005
Nicholas Yulico |
Glowing Gem of the Middle East With booming commercial and residential real estate construction, Dubai's secret of success is that foreigners are able to easily make non-risky real estate investments and hold direct title of property in the city, unlike elsewhere in the region. |
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. |
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... |
AskMen.com
Norman Brown |
Top 10: Crazy Construction Projects This installment of the Top 10 features all sorts of construction projects -- not just skyscrapers -- that are either in the process of being completed or for which the plans have been finalized. |
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. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
April 29, 2010
Michael Arndt |
Hard Times for Star Architects The global real estate implosion killed off scores of their designs, some of which are still hibernating and many of which will never be built |
AskMen.com
Marc Voyer |
Top 10: Architecture Capitals These top 10 architecture capitals will impress you. |
BusinessWeek
May 27, 2010
Jason Clenfield |
China's Elevators: Built for Serious Speed Competition for installations mounts as skyscrapers sprout. |
National Real Estate Investor
June 1, 2006
H. Lee Murphy |
The Inn Is Open And For Sale In the past year, with convention business returning and tourists flocking to new attractions like Millennium Park on the Lake Michigan waterfront, Chicago has suddenly emerged as the darling of the hospitality industry. As buyers have looked in Chicago, they've found willing sellers. |
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... |
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
December 1, 2006 |
In Progress: Park Michigan Park Michigan will be an 855-foot tall skyscraper and rank as one of Chicago's 10 tallest buildings south of Van Buren Street. |
National Real Estate Investor
September 1, 2005
Henry Springs |
Trumping the Chicago Market Overcoming many redesigns and a sickly office market, the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Chicago is slated to rise between the Wrigley and IBM buildings in late 2007. |
BusinessWeek
July 2, 2007
Stanley Reed |
The Master Builder Of The Middle East Mohamed Ali Alabbar is building towers in the desert - and a fast fortune. |
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... |
Popular Mechanics
February 12, 2008
Matt Sullivan |
Dubai's Mile-Long Super Bridge Set for March Construction Leave it to Dubai to build a bridge way harder, faster and stronger. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
March 1, 2011
Bill Mann |
Dubai: A Mirage of Wealth? An inside look at "the Singapore of the Middle East." |
Fast Company
September 1, 2007
Alec Appelbaum |
Sky Fighter Daniel Libeskind shares his vision for architecture and why he's at peace with the plans for Ground Zero that replaced his own. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2007
Willie D. Jones |
How to Build a Mile-High Skyscraper When cities can't build out, they build up. Here's how modern technology makes the building of a mile-high skyscraper possible. |
Wired
Terrence Russell |
Biggest Little Cities: Models for Urban Planning Michael Chesko is no architect, but he just spent more than 2,000 hours constructing a highly detailed, nearly perfect scale model of midtown Manhattan -- now on exhibit at the New York Skyscraper Museum. |
BusinessWeek
March 3, 2011
Zainab Fattah |
Why Dubai's Construction Boom Continues Despite a glut of residential and commercial properties, developers are finding the cost of walking away from projects is higher than completing them |
National Real Estate Investor
December 22, 2003
Parke Chapman |
Planned Ground Zero Building To Be World's Tallest It's finally official -- the first building to be developed on Ground Zero will be the 1,776-ft. "Freedom Tower." The building will boast 2.6 million sq. ft. of office space within 60 stories. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2006
David Noland |
Hearst Tower - Re-inventing the Skyscraper The 46-story Hearst Tower is an energy-efficient, structurally strong, environmentally sound addition to New York City's skyline. And if we may say so ourselves, it looks pretty cool, too. |
BusinessWeek
March 13, 2006
Stanley Reed |
The New Middle East Oil Bonanza Beyond the Dubai Ports deal: Where all those billions are going. |
National Real Estate Investor
June 1, 2006
Parke M. Chapman |
Ground Zero Office Glut in the Making? If Ground Zero's newest tower is any indication, filling space in the Freedom Tower and adjacent buildings will be a challenge. |
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. |
Fast Company
February 2010
Linda Tischler |
How Santiago Calatrava's Buildings Marry Engineering With Biology Santiago Calatrava's buildings marry engineering with biology. And they may just be beautiful enough to make Americans care about infrastructure. |
Searcher
October 2005
Mary Colette Wallace |
Do I Need an Architect Or Not?: Some Things You Should Know General information about architects, design processes, and what clients should know. |
BusinessWeek
October 22, 2009
Stanley Reed |
Debt Watch in Dubai The flashy city-state's companies owe 126% of GDP, and the main hope for salvation is Abu Dhabi. |
CFO
October 1, 2007
Alan Rappeport |
If You Build It, Will They Come? Despite declarations that geography no longer matters, finance centers are vying for supremacy. |
Job Journal
April 15, 2007 |
Career Snapshot: Architect Current demographic trends are increasing the demand for architects. |
AskMen.com
Luke Arnott |
Do It All In Dubai Dubai, located on the Persian Gulf in the United Arab Emirates, has gone from small fishing town to huge urban center thanks to a government policy promoting trade and tourism. Here's a three-day guide to exploring Dubai's dynamic sights. |
