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Neighborhood Watch -- Wall Street Journal A growing number of city dwellers are building glass houses—just a stone's throw from t...

Is There a Limit to How Tall Buildings Can Get? -- The Atlantic The race is always on. Within the span of just two years, the world's ta...

Flickr/paul_bica Architects And Engineers Say These Are The Most Amazing Tall Buildings Of The Year -- Business Insider In 2011, 88 new towe...

The Pierre, French for stone, celebrates the owner's affection for a stone outcropping on her property Would You Live In One Of The Ten ...

90 days to be the biggest in the world: It's a tall order - but the company thinks it can put other skyscrapers to shame Ambition Has Ne...

Architectural rendering of Kingdom Tower, a building designed by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill that is set to become the world's tallest ...

The Mapungubwe National Park Interpretive Center in South Africa. Robert Rich, Peter Rich Architects From The Smithsonian Magazine: An MIT p...

The Pentagon, 1943 From Popular Science: PopSci's first looks at the Empire State Building, the Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge, and ...

Michael DiTullo submitted a shelter design based on a giant umbrella. "It could ship easily in planes, trucks, or trains," he says...

From CBS News: Security Tight at Unveiling of Tower More Than 160 Stories Tall. (AP) Dubai is set to open the world's tallest building...

A Greek temple dating from the fifth century BC. It's more likely to have been dedicated to the Dioscuri (the Gemini twins) than Concord...

From Christian Science Monitor: Dubai Tower opens next month. But will this crowning jewel also be the city's high watermark? Burj Dubai...

From Popular Mechanics: Some bridges are engineered with nothing but utility in mind—for these, aesthetic design is secondary to safety and ...

HOLDING UP The Neal Bridge is taking the daily onslaught of traffic in Maine. Craig Dilger for The New York Times From The New York Times: P...

This illustration depicts how urban life would be among the water bank canals of an underground city. Credit: Andrew Kudless (Design), Nenad...

Paddington station: designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and opened in 1847 Photo: PA From The Telegraph: Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Joseph Loc...

Photo: Keeping Buildings Upright During Quakes: A new structural system dissipates energy to replaceable fuses and pulls buildings back upr...

The Golden Pavilion of Rokuonji Temple in Kyoto, Japan. Photograph by: Koichi Kamoshida, Getty Images From The Montreal Gazette: SYDNEY -- L...

From The Economist: YOUR correspondent is indebted to readers for their interesting comments about last week’s column on timber-framed build...

St. Mary Axe. City: London From Popular Mechanics: This July, the American Institute of Architects forecasted steep declines in nonresidenti...