World Skyscraper Day, celebrated every year on September 3, is a tribute to the breathtaking structures that have transformed the cities. These structures are testaments to human creativity, ...

In 1885, Chicago became home to the world's first skyscraper. Chicago is a city of firsts — everything from the first Ferris wheel to the first brownie and the world’s very first skyscraper. Chicago ...

It revolutionised the world of architecture and ushered in an era of ever taller buildings: Chicago's Home Insurance Building is considered to have been the world's first skyscraper. This is its story ...

This story has been updated to correct that the Palace Theater did not have 8,500 seats. That was the planned number, but the final total was just under 2,700. The downtown Columbus skyline would be ...

Today the LPC approved Downtown Brooklyn’s Skyscraper Historic District, a collection of 21 architecturally distinctive office buildings constructed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We’ve ...