From a sculptural reading space to a turreted mausoleum, our latest roundup gathers curvy brick buildings where skillfully laid brickwork is shaped into fluid forms. Two connecting hemispheres create ...

With enhanced weathering, silicate rock is applied to farmland to capture that carbon before it reaches the atmosphere. As the rock weathers, calcium and magnesium are released and react with ...

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In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

After decades, deferred maintenance totals an estimated $50 billion. But getting repair funds from Congress is a laborious process. After decades, deferred maintenance totals an estimated $50 billion.

With nearly two decades of retail management and project management experience, Brett Day can simplify complex traditional and Agile project management philosophies and methodologies and can explain ...

Architect William Van Alen’s plans for the building’s formidable steel helmet grew taller and more ambitious over time. NYPL On a mild October day in 1929, the architect William Van Alen watched from ...

An earlier version of this page included retrofit information from the city of Los Angeles that contained numerous errors. This story has been updated and buildings from Los Angeles have been removed ...

Ever since humans began building, they’ve been building up. Throughout the millennia, our constructions have reached higher and higher into the sky, spurred by various motivations: religion, democracy ...

Imagine living in a tower covered with thousands of trees, a home built almost entirely from bamboo, or a house that stays cool in extreme heat without relying heavily on air conditioning. Around the ...

Since its tallest buildings were completed in the 1980s the Dallas skyline has remained fairly consistent. At least on the outside. Within the walls of Dallas' glass and steel behemoths things are ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. A state's capitol can tell you a lot about its history. State capitols house each state's legislative ...