Iconic skyscrapers find new luster by going green

When owners of the Empire State Building decided to blanket its towering facade this year with thousands of insulating windows, they were only partly interested in saving energy. They also needed tenants.

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Big US towers going cheap in distressed market

The 40-story skyscraper sits on a prime corner in the country's wealthiest commercial market, steps from the Museum of Modern Art and a few blocks from Rockefeller Center and Central Park.

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Philly skyscraper project battles cloudy economy

At City Hall, leaders of the nation's sixth-largest city are warning about painful cuts as the recession slices deeper and deeper into the budget: library cuts, pool closures, less snow removal and layoffs.

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With the help of a university professor, the neighborhood's mostly graying residents formed the Society to Protect Nippori's Fujimizaka, which Mr. Kaneko leads.

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A French climber nicknamed "Spiderman" scales Malaysia's 88-story Petronas Twin Towers - and is arrested.

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NEW YORK – When owners of the Empire State Building decided to blanket its towering facade this year with thousands of insulating windows, they were only partly interested in saving energy. They also needed tenants.

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Bold, bio-inspired, vertical and sustainable: those are the traits that architecture of the future will share, if you go by the trends in current cutting-edge concept designs.

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There is a gaping hole where one of the world's tallest buildings is supposed to go up.

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Five dream technologies--perhaps not as fantastic as they might seem at first glance--based on the principle of "biomimicry."

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The Prince of Wales has launched his fiercest attack on the nation's planners for 20 years, criticising them for preparing to allow a rash of tall buildings

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Swarms of moths are invading Sydney's business district, cloaking skyscrapers and infesting hotels as they succumb to the bright lights of Australia's biggest city.

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Man's desire to build the ultimate skyscraper, coupled with today's construction technology, means the sky is the limit.

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[the actual website appears to have some sort of formatting problem, so i've copied/pasted the article here for easier reading]

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Offbeat critique (one of several on this architecture blog): "Sears-Tower-Meets-Russian-Constructivist fantasia for Louisville. Wow-factor: High. Silly-factor: Maximum. "

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