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Salon.com
September 11, 2001
Bill Wyman |
Why the towers collapsed The jetliners hit the World Trade Center buildings at a vulnerable point...   |
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... |
National Real Estate Investor
January 1, 2006
Parke M. Chapman |
Ground Zero Waiting Game Above-market asking rents and political bickering over Ground Zero's future are foiling developer Larry Silverstein in his quest to fill the $700 million 7 World Trade Center building. As of late December, just 40,000 of the total 1.7 million sq. ft. was leased. |
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. |
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
August 21, 2008
Arianne Cohen |
World Trade Center 7 Report Puts 9/11 Conspiracy Theory to Rest The long-awaited report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conclusively rebuts claims that explosives were involved in bringing down the twin towers. |
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. |
Mother Jones
Jan/Feb 2002
Verlyn Klinkenborg |
Touching Ground Zero For New Yorkers, the urge to bear witness is irresistible... |
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. |
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
September 20, 2004
Robert McNatt |
What Will Rise At Ground Zero? In his deftly written narrative of the massive 9/11 memorial project, Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York, Paul Goldberger warns that the public may not get what it wants. |
Salon.com
May 1, 2002
Brian Libby |
Cesar Pelli The architect of Manhattan's World Financial Center -- and of the world's tallest towers -- discusses ground zero, the future of skyscrapers and how New York's skyline is handsomer than ever... |
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. |
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. |
National Real Estate Investor
January 1, 2005
Parke Chapman |
Office Glut at Ground Zero The jury decision on insurance liability for the World Trade Center could clear the way for five new office towers to be developed around Ground Zero in a larger plan that could cost as much as $9 billion. |
Salon.com
September 11, 2001 |
Chaos erupts Correspondents in New York and Washington report from the streets on the September 11 terrorist 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... |
National Real Estate Investor
August 1, 2004
Curtis Massey |
High-Rise Fires: What Owners Should Know About Fire Department Operations In the general real estate community, there seems to be a pervasive belief that as long as codes are met and an evacuation or life-safety plan is on file with the city that all of a building owner's bases are covered. This is untrue. |
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. |
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. |
Salon.com
September 14, 2001
Ann Marsh |
Running against the grain: A survivor's tale He was 17 floors from the tower's top just minutes before the jet hit. Luck and his contrary nature got him and two friends out alive... |
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. |
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. |
Salon.com
September 12, 2002
Keith Olbermann |
An ill wind Nature provided New Yorkers with its own eerie echoes of 9/11, as gusts forced the closing of an area around AOL Time Warner's new twin towers. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
National Real Estate Investor
November 1, 2002
Bennett Voyles |
Between a Lock and a Hard Place Now, some property managers are putting routine improvements and remodeling on the backburner to devote resources to security and safety upgrades. |
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. |
Fast Company
May 2012
Lindsey Kratochwill |
Smart Design Makes Europe's Tallest Skyscraper One Of Its Safest Upon completion this month, the London Bridge Shard Building will be the tallest in the European Union, at 1,016 feet. As one of the first planned skyscrapers to be approved for construction after the 9/11 attacks, it offers ultra-secure safety features. |
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
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. |
Salon.com
September 11, 2001 |
U.S. attacked World Trade Center towers destroyed by crashing planes. Pentagon also hit. Thousands feared dead. U.S. says those responsible may have ties to bin Laden, but denies involvement in explosions in Afghanistan... |
BusinessWeek
May 27, 2010
Jason Clenfield |
China's Elevators: Built for Serious Speed Competition for installations mounts as skyscrapers sprout. |
Salon.com
July 13, 2000
Greg Villepique |
"Collapse: When Buildings Fall Down" by Phillip Wearne Read the hair-raising details of how and why man-made structures come tumbling to earth! |
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
March 1, 2005 |
Ten to Watch Larry Silverstein, President and CEO, Silverstein Properties... Mike Bush, Executive Director, Project Real Estate Associate Program (REAP)... Michael Depatie, CEO of Real Estate, Kimpton Group Holding LLC... etc. |
This Old House
Deborah Baldwin |
Comeback Story: A Rebuilt and Reborn Historical House A circa-1901 house rises from the proverbial ashes with its original spirit intact -- and more period charm than ever. |
AskMen.com
Marc Voyer |
Top 10: Architecture Capitals These top 10 architecture capitals will impress you. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2004
Paul Eisenstein |
World's Fastest Elevator Designing the fastest elevator for the Taipei 101 building was challenging. |
National Real Estate Investor
February 1, 2003
Parke Chapman |
One Step Closer to a Final Plan The Lower Manhattan Development Corp. is moving closer to redeveloping the site of the World Trade Center -- even as the need for 11 million sq. ft. of replacement office space is anything but urgent. |
Salon.com
September 21, 2001
Janet Fitch |
No more high heels Go ahead, rip up my luggage and take down my license plate number. Life is newly serious after Sept. 11, and I want to feel it... |
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. |
