Having recently reached a height of 113 meters, the contender for the title of the world’s tallest building is slowly growing up in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The first ropeless, tall-building elevator—a compact, lightweight system that mimics a subway line on end—is set to enter the testing and certification stage in early 2017.
London-based international architect Foster + Partners has launched a building kit for landing sites needed for a fleet of drones proposed to deliver medical and other supplies to remote African locations.
Two developers, one for a planned 12-story building in Portland, Ore., and the other for a planned 10-story building in Manhattan, are winners of a competition designed to support construction of tall mass timber structures in the U.S. The winners will split $3 million in funding.
The Dept. of Veterans Affairs construction program has been hit with more criticism, this time from the Army Corps of Engineers, which says “a transformative change” is needed in how VA manages building major new hospitals.
Jeppesen Terminal at Denver International Airport has a new front door. Rising above the terminal's newly reconfigured south entrance is the 14-story Westin Hotel and Conference Center, still under construction.
An international project team battled unprecedented flooding while treading lightly on Calgary's landscape to build the St. Patrick's Pedestrian Bridge across the Bow River.
The project team confronted the challenge of working within the owner's budget while incorporating cutting-edge 3D design talent to work with materials new to the region.
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