Skyscraper façades were arguably simpler and easier to clean when their windows opened. Indeed, façade cleaning prior to 1950 primarily meant window washing, which was carried out by a dedicated ...

In the race to build behemoth structures, Taipei 101 bears the distinction of drawing nature ... Before the skyscraper’s 1976 opening, large glass windows fell out at an alarming rate, and ...

There are plenty of scientific reasons why skyscrapers don’t—and probably ... In other words, not the tall trees we see in architectural drawings. Next let’s add extreme heat and cold ...

The current issue of The New Yorker has a fascinating (and, sadly, subscription-only) article about how the windows of NYC's skyscrapers get washed. It turns out newfangled skyscraper architecture ...