The famous observation decks of 20th-century buildings—the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the World Trade Center—were low-tech but thrilling open-air platforms ringed by coin-operated ...

Part of a high-rise apartment building in New York City collapsed Wednesday morning, leaving a corner of the building a pile of rubble. The city’s fire department said it had no immediate reports of ...

Sometimes there’s a good reason Massachusetts has different rules than the rest of the nation. For example, we pioneered universal health insurance coverage and free public schools. But sometimes ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two new high-rise housing buildings could be coming to downtown Columbia, just blocks from the State House. Developers behind the $225 million project are set to go before the ...

HONG KONG — A massive fire tore through a high-rise housing complex in Hong Kong on Wednesday into Friday, in one of the region's deadliest blazes in decades. Hong Kong authorities say at least 146 ...

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel struck and destroyed another high-rise building in Gaza City on Monday after warning residents to evacuate, part of an offensive aimed at taking over the ...

Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Housing Research, University of Adelaide, and Research Associate, ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change, University of Essex Emma Baker receives funding ...

Authorities responded to the scene of an explosion at a high-rise building in Downtown Houston. The blast reportedly caused a fire that first responders worked to contain. It occurred at 1319 Texas ...

Researchers in Canada have proposed using gravity-based energy storage in high-rise buildings, in combination with photovoltaic facades, small wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries. Their modeling ...

HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in years burned through the night, leaving at least 44 people dead and 279 reported missing with rescuers still pulling residents from blazing high-rise ...

Londoners are being trapped in their own homes, sometimes for months at a time, because of widespread lift failures in the city’s blocks of flats. Often dealt with as isolated issues in individual ...