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Owners want out at a super-luxe skyscraper on 'Billionaire's Row': report
The residential skyscraper in midtown Manhattan has been plagued in a years-long legal dispute, and…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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This 660-ton pendulum protects Taiwan's tallest skyscraper from earthquakes
Taipei 101's "tuned mass damper" can sway about 5 feet from side to side and absorb up to 40% of th…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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Neom's planners are reportedly worried people won't want to live at the bottom of a 1,640-foot horizontal skyscraper
Neom planners fear The Line's design may prove unappealing to potential residents, particularly on …
Beatrice Nolan
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Citadel's Ken Griffin wants to build a massive NYC skyscraper that the city hopes will lure more workers back to the office
Griffin, who relocated his company's headquarters to Miami, has previously said remote work can har…
Geoff Weiss
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Trump could face a $100 million tax bill after the IRS says he tried to write off the same losses twice on his Chicago skyscraper
In Trump's 2008 tax return, he reported that he lost up to $651 million on his Chicago tower projec…
John L. Dorman
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A $20m mansion home was built on top of a 400ft skyscraper. The tycoon owner may never get to live in it.
Vijay Mallya's $20-million sky mansion sits on top of a 33-story, 400ft luxury apartment complex in…
Cameron Manley
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Swedish architects are building skyscrapers out of wood laminates glued together. The material is shockingly sturdy.
More architects in Sweden are turning to wood to build their structures and make them more sustaina…
Hannah Getahun
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Billionaire hedge fund boss Ken Griffin to pay Manhattan cathedral up to $164 million for air rights to build new skyscraper
Citadel boss Ken Griffin, Steve Roth's Vornado Realty Trust, and Rudin Management have reportedly a…
Tom Carter
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I clean the windows on a 740-foot skyscraper. The first time, I felt like I was going to die, but now it's freeing.
A skyscraper window washer shares how he cleans a 740-foot high-rise in London. He's always aware o…
Emma Magnus
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Architects are cutting big holes in the middle of skyscrapers and adding more floors to turn empty NYC offices into apartments
A developer and an architect explain how they dramatically transformed office buildings in New York…
Eliza Relman
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Russia's war in Ukraine has apparently come home again, this time with drones striking skyscrapers in the capital
One drone struck a building just around the corner from Russia's defense ministry, although it's un…
Jake Epstein
Flames tear through 42-story skyscraper in Hong Kong
A 42-story skyscraper under construction in Hong Kong caught fire. The fire could cost as much as $…
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Video shows a fireball erupting next to Moscow's glitzy skyscrapers as the capital's finance district is struck by drone attacks
Two drones crashed into the fifth and sixth floors of a 50-floor building in Moscow's wealthy finan…
Matthew Loh
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A burning crane collapsed and smashed into a skyscraper in New York City, injuring half a dozen people
Authorities said the crane operator was at the scene when the fire broke out but managed to escape.…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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See NYC's charmless supertall skyscrapers, which one critic is calling a showy display of billionaires' stranglehold on America
Billionaires' Row.Bruce Katz Courtesy of PA Press
Dan Latu
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A man known for climbing tall buildings has died from an apparent fall off of a Hong Kong skyscraper, local authorities say
Before his death, Remi Lucidi was last seen knocking on the 68th floor of Hong Kong's Tregunter Tow…
Mikhaila Friel
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Saudi Arabia plans to build 75-mile-long mirrored skyscrapers that will cut through mountains and feature high-speed rail, a sports stadium, and a yacht marina and cost up to $1 trillion
Artist renderings show the Mirror Line, which is part of Saudi Arabia's plans for a futuristic mega…
Kelsey Vlamis
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A cluster of 3 towering skyscrapers, each taller than 1,300 feet, forms a distinctive peak above Shanghai's financial district — check it out
The three buildings are Shanghai Tower, Shanghai World Financial Center, and Jin Mao Tower, archite…
Amanda Goh
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The Leaning Tower of Pisa might be the most famous leaning building in the world — but it's nothing compared to this Abu Dhabi skyscraper
Capital Gate holds the Guinness World Record for the "farthest manmade leaning building," architect…
Amanda Goh
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The Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, is so tall that people perceive time differently from the top and bottom floors
"Its sheer scale even transcends the earth's local temperature and climate," Stefan Al wrote in his…