How tall could we really build? After a century of competition, skyscrapers are reaching new extremes.

In the mid-1880s, Chicago pulled off something nobody else had tried before by building a tall, metal-framed office tower called the Home Insurance Building. We’d call that a skyscraper today. It didn ...

(NEXSTAR) – Can you imagine a time before skyscrapers towered over the world’s great cities, shading the streets and sidewalks below? That was the reality until America entered a new architectural era ...

In 1956, Frank Lloyd Wright designed The Illinois — intended to be the world’s first mile-high skyscraper. Stretching to 528 stories, and with parking for 15,000 cars and 100 helicopters, The Illinois ...

Investor Tom Liravongsa is renovating a landmarked skyscraper into an apartment building. The building, built in 1927, was once a major medical office and is now mostly vacant. Liravongsa thinks the ...

A proposal has been submitted to build a new skyscraper in San Francisco that would eclipse the city's 61-story Salesforce Tower and become the tallest building on the West Coast. Mayor Daniel Lurie ...