Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to introduce a bill banning new construction of glass skyscrapers as part of his efforts to reduce citywide greenhouse emissions by 30 percent.

Homes; Skyscrapers Face the Apocalypse Miami’s Construction Research Laboratory subjects a growing crop of building facades to mock hurricanes, monsoons and arctic blasts.

But under the Department of Buildings’ ramped-up rules that came into effect last week, the changes to the Facade Inspection & Safety Program — known as Local Law 11 — owners will have to ...

Dubai authorities have begun telling owners of high-rise buildings across the emirate to make the facades more resistant to fire, the government said on Saturday, after a string of skyscraper blazes.

The skyscrapers of the future are those that architects call "fifth generation", which aim for a carbon-neutral footprint, such as Melbourne's CH2, One Bligh Street, Sydney and One Angel Square ...

Stone and concrete facades are being stripped and replaced with even more of the tempered, transparent material. ... Wooden buildings are lighter, and thus require much smaller foundations.

“To our knowledge, there are no buildings in the city of Rochester that have used that type of construction,” she said. But, Schryver acknowledged, officials can’t be 100 percent sure.

LEED-certified buildings are clean, innovative, and environmentally friendly. ... Eventually, LEED-EB will likely supplant LEED for New Construction as an emblem of credibility and prestige.

As with 2100 Kettner and the Mission Rock buildings, people might be surprised to learn that its facade was entirely prefabricated. “The citizenM project was a perfect example of what you can do ...

A new supertall skyscraper slated for Nanjing, China, will be defined by an unusual octagonal form designed to reduce wind loads. The tower will host multiple greenery filled terraces, plus a ...