Items Tagged with 'high rise'

On the long-vacant site in Chicago, two towers have been designed and engineered to combat the power of the wind.

Why is C.D. Smith seeking foreclosure and sale of the site of the Edison, which was once planned to be the tallest timber building in North America?

As the sustainability movement took hold in construction a quarter-century ago, concrete maker Louis P. Grasso Jr. was nudged by its leaders to gain a competitive edge by producing a pozzolan made from locally sourced recycled glass to reduce cement’s carbon content.

Located in Tianjin and originally named Goldin Finance 117, completion of the 597-meter mixed-use structure, to be one of China's tallest, was halted in 2015 during a Chinese stock market crash.

Working three blocks apart in Phoenix’s downtown Central Avenue corridor, Layton Construction Co. teams are completing two high-rise projects that will collectively add almost 2.5 million sq ft of mixed-use space.

Step-down configuration facilitates a transition across the zoning plan of a popular Denver neighborhood.

The nearly 1.4-million-sq-ft 200 Park high-rise in San José, Calif., though only 300 ft tall, has taken Seattle’s 850-ft-tall proof of concept for SpeedCore—a novel modular steel-plate shear-wall sandwich system—to new heights.

Forty-story Astra Tower will become Utah's tallest building.