COLUMBIA, S.C. — New drawings and details are giving new insight into a proposal to build two new massive high-rise living spaces in the heart of downtown Columbia. Documents posted to the Columbia ...

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 ...

A now vacant office high-rise in downtown San Diego will be transformed into a 560-room Hyatt hotel, marking what is believed to be the first such conversion in California in recent years. The $250 ...

When a fire breaks out in a high-rise building, conventional wisdom is that stairwells are the only way out. Lifts are verboten in such scenarios, while sheer height typically prevents any other ...

Metro Phoenix's skyscrapers are not as tall as those in big U.S. cities like New York and Chicago. The tallest building in the United States is One World Trade Center in New York City, which stands at ...