New York City has been well known for its stunning skyline for nearly a century, the amount of skyscrapers in the city is higher than that of the vast majority of other cities in the world, especially after the recent years' construction boom, which brought many new supertall towers to th...
Washington, D.C.is a struggling old city that once controlled the politics of the United States beforethe Collapse. Now the capital city struggles to maintain the current US and tries to regain the power that it once held.Militecheffectively controls the city as well as it's politics. Howeve...
Prompted by this state-facilitated urban redevelopment, skyscrapers are being built rapidly in major cities to attract affluent middle-classes, resulting in countless relocation and displacement of the working-class population. Such process is known as “gentrification”. As cities and neighborhoods are ...
What is less known, is that early skyscrapers were not so well received by population and most US cities made laws limiting building heights to counter the “skyscraper race”, but in New York the law failed to be approved, so taller and taller skyscrapers were built. Early skyscrapers had ...
At the turn of the century the construction of skyscrapers increased. The concentration of ever higher towers on Manhattan gave the city its unique “super-urban” skyline. By the mid-20th century New York had become a huge complex of towns and suburbs nearly 200 km long, with residential,...
The larger economic boom generated construction of skyscrapers competing in height and creating an identifiable skyline.New York became the most populous urbanized area in the world in early 1920s, overtaking London. The metropolitan area surpassed the 10 million mark in early 1930s, becoming the ...
Super tall, super skinny and super expensive: a new generation of New York skyscrapers, some taller than the Empire State building, are altering the world's most famous skyline. And it's not just the masonry that's soaring to new heights. The prices have also gone stratospheric: three apa...
TheArchitectureof Paul Rudolph," the exhibition is on display from September 30, 2024, to March 16, 2025, covering a wide spectrum of Rudolph's architectural contributions, from his experimental houses in Florida, through civic projects, to visionary urban megastructures and mixed-use skyscrapers. ...
With one of the most complex tall building challenges underway in Lower Manhattan, New York City will host the world's experts in the development, planning, design and construction of skyscrapers. Skyscraper exhibit planned * An ambitious renovation at Union Square Wine & Spirits, located at Union...
and water, today’s green skyscrapers are pushing the extreme frontiers of environmental, structural, and creative possibility. That sensibility is also strengthening bonds between architects and engineers who, more than ever, are joining forces to find aesthetically pleasing, environmentally astute solutio...