The Empire State Building, a 102-story skyscraper with a steel frame completed in New York City in 1931, was the tallest building until 1971. The Empire State Building is located…
Crystal Island appears to be some ethereal giant from any dystopian science fiction at first glance. However, iconic architecture firm Foster+Partners has dreamed of turning this vision into reality in…
Pennzoil Place is a high-rise office tower built in 1976 at 711 Louisiana Street in downtown Houston, Texas. Johnson/ Burgee Architects designed the building. It has a modernist approach that…
Situated in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, Atlanta is renowned for its post-modern style of architecture. Little remains today of the Atlanta described in Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With The…
Historically, churches left their mark, followed by public institutions, and in recent decades, commercial skyscrapers have been making a mark. A few decades ago, the Eiffel Tower was the tallest…
Taipei 1O1 is a successful skyscraper construction and a bizarre architectural history standing on the grounds of the Xinyi district of Taipei, located in Taiwan. The importance of the tower…
The realization and contemplation of the need to build taller and make our cities compact is something that has been persistent through time. Not only does it bring diversity to…
Gensler is a multinational architecture firm with the highest revenues and largest workforce in the world. Gensler is committed to creating meaningful and lasting change in the communities where they…
Skyscrapers emerged as architects dreamed of building higher, and engineers developed construction techniques. However, skyscrapers cannot simply be called high-rise buildings; then there would be no difference between them and…
Architects always take inspiration from anything or everything around them to develop a design concept for their proposal. Solving a design problem is often inspired mainly by nature. Since a…
With over 52 stories, the 555 California Street building is one of the most prominent and currently, the fourth tallest skyscraper in San Francisco’s skyline. Conceived by the world-renowned architectural…
In our imagination, the future cities are an amalgamation of towering skyscrapers, magnetic levitation trains, flying cars and robots (built to cater to our every need). We might have imagined…