“I think you'll be asking different questions in 50 years,” the engineer behind the world's tallest building told Newsweek.

Faced with the prospect of an extensive, and expensive, seismic safety retrofit for its 1960s-era downtown headquarters, L.A. County decided to vet an alternative: a far newer building, located just ...

Cost and demand determine building heights, and a big new project isn't out of the question. But “urban design matters," one developer says.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), the designer of the world's tallest building, Dubai's Burj Khalifa, has joined forces with Energy Vault Holdings to investigate the possibility of creating something ...

From soaring skylines in East Asia to vertical expansions in the Middle East, skyscrapers have become defining features of modern urban landscapes. Some of these metropolises are even best known the ...

Here's a list of the ten tallest skyscrapers in the city and some background on each to keep you up to date.