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Sale of tallest building in downtown L.A. to Asian investors is done

The $367.5-million sale of U.S. Bank Tower in downtown Los Angeles, the tallest building in the West, has been completed.

Diogene micro home pushes the boudaries for off-the-grid tiny living

Italian architect Renzo Piano has gone from building Europe’s tallest building (the Shard in London) to one of its smallest. Finally completing his career-long dream of building a micro house that only measures 7.5 sq m (81 sq ft), Piano’s single-occupancy unit has been added to the gardens of the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Show More Summary

Billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed Is Scoping Out A Site For His Mile-High Skyscraper

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal says he is looking at the world's largest cities, including Shanghai, Moscow, London, and New York, as possible locations to build a mile-high skyscraper that would be the world's tallest building...Show More Summary

Saudi Tycoon May Build World’s Tallest Building in Moscow

Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Man of Steel - the Hunk From Outer Space

Man of Steel, possibly the tallest of all the studio's summer tentpole blockbusters, broke box office records in its opening weekend, making over $125 million...

Architectural Craziness: World's Tallest Wooden Tower May Soon Rise in Sweden

Rendering via Dezeen Over in Stockholm, Scandinavian architecture firm C. F. Møller wants to build the planet's tallest timber tower, a 34-story wooden skyscraper (called, get this, "Wooden Skyscraper") that would stand a whole 28 stories taller than North America's...

Let’s do the twist: Dubai inaugurates the Cayan Tower

The world’s tallest twisted tower has finally opened its doors. Located in Dubai, the Cayan Tower is 310 metres long, has 75 storeys and is twisted at 90 degrees from top to bottom. According to the developer, 80 percent of the tower’s residential units have already been sold. Read the rest of the story at: Let’s do the twist: Dubai inaugurates the Cayan Tower

Photo Of The Day

That's (sort of) the view from atop the world's tallest building, Dubai's 160-story Burj Khalifa. Gizmodo has the deets on how the photo was made. By the way, it can cost up to $100 to visit the observation deck. Here are some of the records the building has set.

Dubai unveils world’s tallest twisted tower

What It Really Looks Like Atop the World’s Tallest Building

In January, Dubai photog Gerald Donovan showed us what the earth looks like from the pinnacle of the world’s tallest building, thanks to a 360 degree panorama that was ‘shopped to remove the Burj Khalifa itself. But today, Donovan released the original, undoctored image—and it’s even better than the original. Read more...

Summertime carspotting in the Seventies

By now, the kids should all be out of school and the snow on all but the tallest mountain passes should be melted, which means it’s prime time for summer vacations. We’re obviously partial to the hop-in-the-car-and-drive type of summer vacation, so we rounded up a few Seventies-era street scenes from the Documerica project that [...]

Video: 100 Years Of Climbing Mt. McKinley

Project Gutenberg Standing 20,320 feet in height, Mt. McKinley is the tallest mountain in North America and one of the most challenging climbs in the entire world. While it doesn't rival the big Himalayan peaks in terms of altitude,Show More Summary

New Elevator Tech Will Double How Tall Our Highest Buildings Can Be

China may be quick on the path to constructing the world's newest tallest building ever, but should they succeed, their reign is probably going to be fairly short-lived—and all because of an elevator. More specifically, an elevator that can travel up to 1000 meters—two times higher than any built before it. Read more...

Video Interlude: For those who appreciate superhuman feats...

For those who appreciate superhuman feats atop superhuman buildings: Curbed National has a behind-the-scenes video of someone climbing to the very top of Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest manmade structure. Go, watch.

High and Mighty

The Frank Gehry–designed New York by Gehry tower, which was completed in the spring of 2011, rises 76 stories over Lower Manhattan and stands 870 feet tall, making it the tallest residential building in North America. Also lending to the structure’s unmistakability is its asymmetrical steel facade, which appears to ripple like fabric. Show More Summary

Video Interlude: Watch a Guy Climb the Tallest Manmade Structure on Earth

Right: photo by @joencnallyphoto/Instagram; left top and bottom: screenshots via YouTube Earlier this year, Joe McNally stood on Dubai's 2,722-foot-tall Burj Khalifa and snapped a photo, essentially a rare look straight down from the tallest manmade structure on Earth. Thankfully...

Meet Canada's Mount Thor: The World's Steepest, Tallest Cliff

Baffin Island, Canada is home to Mount Thor, the world's tallest vertical cliff. In fact, it's steeper than vertical, with a 105-degree overhang. Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings explains.

Watch The The Tallest Building On Governors Island Implode

Did you wake up at 7:36 a.m. this morning to watch the tallest building on Governors Island implode? Well, you're in luck, because even if you weren't on the SS Boat Brunch, you can relive every moment of the destruction of 11-story-high Building 877 in the videos below. [ more › ]

Reminder: Massive Implosion Happening On Governors Island Tomorrow

Just in case you haven't booked your spot on the Boat Brunch Implosion Experience yet, tomorrow, workers will be imploding the tallest building on Governors Island. The implosion is planned for tomorrow morning, and the doomed 11-story-high Building 877 is the first structure to be imploded in the city in more than a decade. [ more › ]

What it's like to climb to the top of the world's tallest building

Remember National Geographic photographer Joe McNally's incredible photograph taken from the top of Dubai's Burj Khalifa? This behind-the-scenes video follows his vertigo-inducing trip up the spire, with plenty of views of the city below. Read more...