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 ...

If it seems like buildings in Miami are getting taller, that’s because they are. The Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Residences Miami, a skyscraper designed to resemble a stack of offset blocks, will tower ...

Buildings, apartments and other new developments have popped up steadily in Knoxville in recent years. But if you’ve ever wondered why none of those new buildings are skyscrapers, you’re not alone.

(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 ...