Saudi Arabia is pushing the limits of engineering with Rise Tower, a record-breaking 2-kilometer skyscraper set to become the tallest building in the world, soaring twice as high as the Burj Khalifa.

Municipalities and their residents can be fickle and unpredictable in their attitudes toward new construction. Objections about a building’s height or jobsite’s noise and traffic have been known to ...

How tall could we really build? After a century of competition, skyscrapers are reaching new extremes.

Walk the shoreline of Kitsilano in Vancouver, Canada, and you see a construction site where eleven residential towers are rising from new foundations. This cluster of high-rises is squeezed between ...

The cost of building London skyscrapers has soared by 40 per cent in five years as pressure on the capital’s high-rise property market mounts. The average cost of building a tower in the capital has ...