Hearst, one of the nation’s largest diversified media, information and services companies with more than 360 businesses, today announced that the Hearst Tower i...
Newmark Grubb Knight Frank (NGKF) is marketing for sale a 12-story art deco-style historic high-rise located at 403 W. 8th St. in downtown Los Angeles. Known as...
The Prudential Plaza is one of the most recognizable landmarks in Chicago’s East Loop. Managed by Jones Lang LaSalle, the 60-year-old Prudential I Tower embarke...
In conjunction with its exhibition "Times Square, 1984," The Skyscraper Museum in lower Manhattan is presenting a series of programs that reunite key actors in ...
The Courtyard Seattle Downtown/Pioneer Square has completed a 19-month, $750,000 restoration of its historic building. The downtown Seattle hotel, at 612 Second...
Times Square today is bright and crowded – the most visited place on the planet, filled with electric signs, entertainment venues and retail outlets. But thirty...
Rose Associates, the owners of 70 Pine Street in Lower Manhattan, are spending $550 million to transform the historic 952-foot-tall high-rise into a mixed-use b...
Whether the Great Pyramid of Giza or the Tower of Babel, humankind has always been reaching for the sky. Beginning with the start of the 20th century and the co...
With Detroit once known as the innovation capital of the world, ambitious developers are working hard to bring it back to what it once was. Dan Mullen,vice pre...
If San Franciscans like to describe their city as “49 square miles surrounded by reality," the visionary ideas that were too grandiose for even San Franciscans ...
Tower of Civilization, 1939 by William H. Evans
'Never Built: Los Angeles' is a new show at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum that examines over a cent...
Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles has been nominated as a Historic Cultural Monument. The building's owner, Next Century Associates, filed the nomination for t...
Standing in Midtown Manhattan on the corner of Eighth Avenue and 57th Street, Hearst Tower soars from the original six-story landmark structure built in 1928, d...
At 82 stories and over 1.9 million sf, Aqua Tower is one of few high-rises in the world that creates a community on its façade, according to the architect, Jean...
Called “a statement of western progress and foresight,” The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company opened 140 New Montgomery in 1925. The office tower was ador...
Like ruins left behind by the great Romans or Mayans, America's abandoned skyscrapers hide numerous stories behind their decaying facades. These high-rise gems, many of them Art Deco specimens, were the pride of their community when they were built. A developer's vision, an architect's dream, an engineer's challenge, a workplace, a home, and now crumbling monuments to their enterprising creators. Oftentimes the towers are so beloved that a community can't bare to see them go. And other times they just can't afford to tear them down.
The story behind the famous Chrysler Building spire is something of architectural folklore. Walter Chrysler had instructed his architect, William van Alen, to m...
Every year, Preservation Chicago announces its “Chicago’s 7″ list of Most Endangered Buildings. The purpose of the Chicago 7 is to raise public awareness about the threats facing some of Chicago’s most at-risk architectural treasures, whether they are a single building, an entire neighborhood, or a thematic category of buildings, such as Great Chicago Warehouses or Chicago’s Religious Structures.
The building of One Worldwide Plaza in Manhattan was documented in a 1991 PBS mini-series Skyscraper: The Making of a Building by Karl Sabbagh. This classic fou...
Back in 2009, the Empire State Building served its purpose as a great tourist attraction. But it didn’t stand out to tenants who were looking for office space t...
