As the first building to be built from an iron frame, the Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings in England is a forerunner of all iron- and steel-framed towers. Now, its custodians want people to know that. In ...
In 2022, architects built what was dubbed the world’s first “upcycled” skyscraper. The owners of Sydney, Australia’s AMP Centre wanted to replace the original 1970s structure with a bigger, better, ...
In the mid-1880s, Chicago pulled off something nobody else had tried before by building a tall, metal-framed office tower called the Home Insurance Building. We’d call that a skyscraper today. It didn ...
People for decades could only peer into downtown Atlanta’s Gulch and wonder if anything but pigeons could ever rise from its depths. But on Thursday, a crowd of Atlanta leaders didn’t look down. They ...
The Trust Building, originally the Atlantic Trust and Banking building, was built in Wilmington from 1910-1912. Designed by Joseph F. Leitner, the nine-story building was Wilmington's first skyscraper ...