Sky-high expectations are set for the forthcoming “Rise Tower” in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which builders plan to have surpass the current world’s tallest building by hundreds of feet. The building is ...

The famous observation decks of 20th-century buildings—the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, the World Trade Center—were low-tech but thrilling open-air platforms ringed by coin-operated ...

Nov. 26 (UPI) --Forty-four people, including a firefighter, are dead and hundreds are missing in Hong Kong after a massive high-rise fire Wednesday that hit multiple buildings in the small Chinese ...

Firefighters were still trying to fully extinguish the blaze more than 24 hours after it engulfed several towers in the complex. Dozens of people were still missing. Smoke billowing from a housing ...

LONDON -- At least 36 people were killed as a massive fire engulfed a residential apartment complex in Hong Kong's Tai Po district on Wednesday, according to The Associated Press. "A fire broke out at ...

The death toll in relation to a massive that fire ripped through multiple ber of others were reported to be trapped after a massive fire ripped through multiple Hong Kong high-rise residential ...

Researchers in Canada have proposed using gravity-based energy storage in high-rise buildings, in combination with photovoltaic facades, small wind turbines, and lithium-ion batteries. Their modeling ...

Radio signal dead zones can create a potentially dangerous situation for emergency responders, yet dozens of high-rises in Fort Lauderdale have them, city officials say. That means police and ...

Dark smoke was rising nearly 24 hours after the blaze engulfed the apartment complex. More than 270 people were still missing. Smoke billowing from a housing complex in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district on ...

HONG KONG — Hong Kong firefighters found dozens more bodies Friday in an intensive apartment-by-apartment search of a high-rise complex where a massive fire engulfed seven buildings, and authorities ...