An curved arrow pointing right. How tall could we really build? After a century of competition, skyscrapers are reaching new extremes: Saudi Arabia's upcoming 1-kilometer-tall Kingdom Tower in Jeddah ...

When a fire breaks out in a high-rise building, conventional wisdom is that stairwells are the only way out. Lifts are verboten in such scenarios, while sheer height typically prevents any other ...

When developers began transforming the kitschy waterfront motels of Sunny Isles Beach into luxury high-rise condos and hotels more than two decades ago, they were confident they understood the ...

Residents describe how a blaze in a high-rise building in Hong Kong quickly spread, taking many by surprise and trapping an unknown number of people in the burning buildings. By Joy Dong Reporting ...