The High Line cuts through the heart of New York City’s booming westside development, bookended by high-profile buildings like Renzo Piano’s Whitney Museum of Art and the gleaming towers of ...

Insulating concrete forms have a long history of success in low-rise buildings, but now Building Teams are specifying ICFs for mid- and high-rise structures—more than 100 feet. ICF walls can be used ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Preservationists have been taking issue in recent days with developments they say will block the open views of the High Line. On its "Off the Grid" blog, the Greenwich ...

In a stunning comeback from near-collapse at the turn of the millennium, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat is flourishing. Membership increased 672% from 2004 through 2014. There are ...

‘One Vanderbilt Avenue’ in New York is the newest in a roster of megatall structures, set to redefine future skylines. Here’s why we’re obsesed with building tall.

The 1,046-foot-tall Chrysler Building, completed in May of 1930, was the pinnacle of both the then-unnamed Art Deco period and the skyscraper boom that rapidly transformed New York City’s skyline.

Architects Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler first coined the term “tall office building” in 1896, drawing on the architectural precedent of Italy’s Renaissance palazzi.