When it opens in early 2015, Gensler’s Shanghai Tower will be the second-tallest building in the world.

The tower is located above a cliff-like bedrock profile varying from about 70m to 130m in depth, which posed uncertainties in the use of traditional pile types.

American architects are exporting a luxury product of a dimension and scale few clients in the United States can afford at home: the supertall skyscraper—that is, a skyscraper over 1,250 feet tall.

It's not exactly a house, nor entirely a gallery, but it does have a wine bar'and might best be described as 'semi-public.

The Elkhorn River Research Station could be mistaken for a rusting vestige of the steamboat days, left to disintegrate on the riverbank about 30 miles west of Omaha, like so many other industrial cast-offs.

Like an architectural therapist, Stephanie Goto stripped away layers of troubles that had weighed on a trio of rooftop sheds in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood to reveal their true personality and inner strengths.

A rough-and-ready storefront in a former auto shop turns up the volume for a renegade wine producer.

It is in the nature of tall buildings that rankings are short-lived, but at least for the moment, the 1,354-foot-tall, 77-story Al Hamra Firdous Tower, by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), is the tallest building in Kuwait City.

Dresden is a place of ghosts and unease, the site of the most controversial and devastating series of Allied bombing raids of World War II.

From the first glimpse of the $103 million Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City, the metaphor is unambiguous.