A car hit by debris form a adjacent building under construction at Ushirika estate in Pangani, Nairobi county. [Collins Oduor, Standard] As high-rise buildings are erected every day to feed Nairobi's ...

Researchers in Canada have proposed using gravity-based energy storage in high-rise buildings, in combination with photovoltaic facades, small wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries. Their modeling ...

This blog post was authored by architect and structural engineer Charles F. Bloszies FAIA, SE, LEED. The skyscraper is architecture’s ultimate icon. The term itself conjures images of seemingly ...