Despite criticisms about their environmental impact, glazed skyscrapers continue to spring up in cities around the world. Jon Astbury investigates why they remain so popular. In 2011, British ...

A pane of glass plummeted more than 400 feet from a Midtown skyscraper, crashing down onto the sidewalk and street below early Sunday morning, city officials said. The 4-foot-by-6-foot pane fell from ...

New York City’s $14 billion Green New Deal, recently unveiled by Mayor Bill de Blasio, includes a ban on inefficient “classic glass and steel skyscrapers.” The controversial measure is part of a plan ...

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) is responsible for the latest addition to Hudson Yards, a supertall glass skyscraper named The Spiral for the ascending terraces lining its facade. The building sits on West ...