Details about a mysterious skyscraper that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wants to build have recently been revealed in the media after the Wall Street Journal shared information from the ...

Who said living inside a mountain couldn’t be luxurious? Developers in Saudi Arabia announced plans Wednesday for an “ultra-luxury upside-down skyscraper” wedged into the mountainside on the Gulf of ...

The Rise Tower in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, would be the tallest building in the world if completed, dwarfing Dubai's Burj ...

The imagined architecture of the coming drone era is mostly defensive. There’s the stealth-mode startup, Domestic Drone Countermeasures, with its camera-jamming home-security system. There’s the ...

The steel exoskeleton of Seattle 2030, a futuristic skyscraper, braids around a tower of wood. Curved balconies teeming with trees and turf no doubt offer killer views. Topped with wind turbines and a ...

Construction is a major carbon dioxide emitter, with eight percent of global emissions traceable to the cement industry and another eight percent coming from steel production. Engineers and ...

When Young Woo Seo first contacted Jean-Michel Wilmotte, he needed the French architect’s help in bringing his perfect home to life. “I wanted to build the kind of residence I want to live in,” he ...

Mic is celebrating Earth Day with an entire week of stories. Over the next few days we’ll be rolling out pieces on hyper-urban farming, the future of construction, the catastrophic environmental costs ...

For better or worse -- possibly both -- the skyscraper was the exhilarating signature of architecture in the 20th century. But what will be its future in the 21st? This is an inescapable question in ...