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National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2008
H. Lee Murphy |
Symbols of the Modern World The modern skyscraper, given up officially for dead by real estate investors and developers amid the post-9/11 frenzy of fear, is mounting a comeback.   |
Popular Mechanics
September 15, 2008
Kevin Hall |
The 10 Next Hot Skyscrapers You Won't Find in Dubai When it comes to tall buildings, all eyes are on the Burj Dubai. But across the world architects have already come up with mega engineering plans vying to be equally mind-blowing. |
National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2008
H. Lee Murphy |
World Title Champion The world's tallest building has been enshrouded in secrecy since the start of construction early in 2006, but the current evidence suggests that Burj Dubai will eventually get to 2,684 feet, with 160 habitable floors. |
Wired
November 27, 2007
Andrew Blum |
Engineer Bill Baker Is the King of Superstable 150-Story Structures Baker's ascension -- and his buttressed core -- comes at the beginning of the supertall era. People, corporations, and even desert city-states with oversize checkbooks and matching egos are racing to conquer their skylines. Most of them call Bill Baker. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Jeff Wise |
Dubai Re-ups Race for World's Tallest Building While builders are keeping their exact plans a secret, the tower will reportedly be more than half a mile high. |
AskMen.com
Norman Brown |
Top 10: Crazy Construction Projects This installment of the Top 10 features all sorts of construction projects -- not just skyscrapers -- that are either in the process of being completed or for which the plans have been finalized. |
BusinessWeek
November 11, 2010
Mark Gilbert |
London's Rising Towers May Presage a Shrinking Economy As Renzo Piano's "Shard of Glass" rises, other skyscrapers are in the works. Unfortunately, new London towers often foreshadow shrinking economies. |
Fast Company
August 8, 2011
Linda Tischler |
What 9/11 Taught Us About Designing Skyscrapers A new, safer model of skyscraper rises from the site of the attack. |
BusinessWeek
December 13, 2007
Reena Jana |
Online Extra: Abu Dhabi Builds Its Architectural Cred The building boom in the United Arab Emirates capital rivals that of Dubai, but Abu Dhabi is banking on ambitious green architecture. |
National Real Estate Investor
April 1, 2005
Nicholas Yulico |
Glowing Gem of the Middle East With booming commercial and residential real estate construction, Dubai's secret of success is that foreigners are able to easily make non-risky real estate investments and hold direct title of property in the city, unlike elsewhere in the region. |
BusinessWeek
May 27, 2010
Jason Clenfield |
China's Elevators: Built for Serious Speed Competition for installations mounts as skyscrapers sprout. |
AskMen.com
Marc Voyer |
Top 10: Architecture Capitals These top 10 architecture capitals will impress you. |
Salon.com
September 17, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
New York's most disliked building? The World Trade Center represented the essence of American financial power, but critics hated the towers and the public never embraced them... |
Popular Mechanics
January 11, 2008 |
Four Engineering Breakthroughs Changing the Skyscraper Race Super-strong, next-generation steel... Nanotech-enhanced concrete... Thick cores for disaster... Building in a smart way out... |
Popular Mechanics
April 2006
David Noland |
Hearst Tower - Re-inventing the Skyscraper The 46-story Hearst Tower is an energy-efficient, structurally strong, environmentally sound addition to New York City's skyline. And if we may say so ourselves, it looks pretty cool, too. |
AskMen.com
November 1, 2000
Dennis O'Connell |
Top 10 Skyscrapers Afraid of heights? This feature is made for you. We have traveled the world at the speed of light to come up with a list of the world's most important skyscrapers in terms of height, social significance, design, and architecture... |
The Motley Fool
March 1, 2011
Bill Mann |
Dubai: A Mirage of Wealth? An inside look at "the Singapore of the Middle East." |
AskMen.com
Luke Arnott |
Do It All In Dubai Dubai, located on the Persian Gulf in the United Arab Emirates, has gone from small fishing town to huge urban center thanks to a government policy promoting trade and tourism. Here's a three-day guide to exploring Dubai's dynamic sights. |
BusinessWeek
December 2, 2009
Stanley Reed |
Why Dubai Matters Sure, it will pay a hefty price for its debt woes. But the city-state's open economy has attracted legions of foreign investors and serves as a model for its Gulf neighbors |
BusinessWeek
July 2, 2007
Stanley Reed |
The Master Builder Of The Middle East Mohamed Ali Alabbar is building towers in the desert - and a fast fortune. |
National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2008
H. Lee Murphy |
Pride of Nashville Outside of the skyscraper strongholds of Chicago and New York, the really tall buildings have been confined to a handful of urban centers in places like Philadelphia, Atlanta and San Francisco. Nashville was not on that short list. Until now. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2007
Jeff Wise |
Re-engineering the Bay Bridge: Built Quake Tough Engineers knew that returning the bridge to its pre-earthquake state wouldn't be enough. They needed to come up with a solution that could withstand some of the worst that California's fault zones are capable of dishing out. |
The Motley Fool
February 18, 2010
Gerard Torres |
American Tower Hits the Spots American Tower's strategic positioning of its wireless towers helps it lead the industry. |
National Real Estate Investor
December 1, 2006 |
In Progress: Park Michigan Park Michigan will be an 855-foot tall skyscraper and rank as one of Chicago's 10 tallest buildings south of Van Buren Street. |
Salon.com
September 11, 2001
Bill Wyman |
Why the towers collapsed The jetliners hit the World Trade Center buildings at a vulnerable point... |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2004
Ben McClure |
Teetering American Tower The wireless transmission tower company isn't offering much of a future view. |
Mother Jones
Jan/Feb 2002
Verlyn Klinkenborg |
Touching Ground Zero For New Yorkers, the urge to bear witness is irresistible... |
BusinessWeek
October 22, 2009
Stanley Reed |
Debt Watch in Dubai The flashy city-state's companies owe 126% of GDP, and the main hope for salvation is Abu Dhabi. |
National Real Estate Investor
June 1, 2006
Parke M. Chapman |
Ground Zero Office Glut in the Making? If Ground Zero's newest tower is any indication, filling space in the Freedom Tower and adjacent buildings will be a challenge. |
National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2008
H. Lee Murphy |
A Building that Breathes With a roof height of 945 feet, the Bank of America Tower under construction in New York City will be the city's second-tallest structure. Management is in pursuit of an elite Platinum LEED certification. |
National Real Estate Investor
March 1, 2006 |
In Progress: Ivy Hotel & Residence The project includes the renovation of the long-vacant Ivy Tower, one of the city's most interesting landmark buildings, to accommodate two restaurants, a salon, hotel meeting room and boutique hotel suites. |
National Real Estate Investor
January 22, 2003 |
MetLife closes $46M refinance of Millennium Tower Millennium Tower LLC has refinanced the 200,000 sq. ft. commercial unit of Millennium Tower, a 20-story, mixed-use property in downtown Seattle. |
BusinessWeek
March 13, 2006
Stanley Reed |
The New Middle East Oil Bonanza Beyond the Dubai Ports deal: Where all those billions are going. |
Wired
July 2004
Lee Smith |
The Road to Tech Mecca Open markets and oil, satellite nets and Islam. Welcome to the city-state of Dubai, the new media capital of the Middle East. |
Fast Company
September 1, 2007
Alec Appelbaum |
Sky Fighter Daniel Libeskind shares his vision for architecture and why he's at peace with the plans for Ground Zero that replaced his own. |
The Motley Fool
September 9, 2011
Harsh Chauhan |
American Tower Scales New Heights American Tower reports a strong second quarter. |
Salon.com
September 11, 2001 |
Chaos erupts Correspondents in New York and Washington report from the streets on the September 11 terrorist attack... |
BusinessWeek
February 14, 2005
Christopher Palmeri |
Hike Your Odds On A Vegas Condo They're going up all over the Strip -- and not every project will be a winner |
Popular Mechanics
March 2004
Paul Eisenstein |
World's Fastest Elevator Designing the fastest elevator for the Taipei 101 building was challenging. |
National Real Estate Investor
May 1, 2008
H. Lee Murphy |
A Labor of Indecision For his first project in Chicago, Donald Trump has been dogged by indecision. But the switch from offices to condos and the addition of a hotel didn't force revision of the exterior design all that much. |
Reason
July 2005
Jesse Walker |
Building a New World Mini-nations for the super-rich: These private dominions are a light version of a country or society, stripped of annoying `features' like crime, bad weather and excessive taxes. Which leaves the good things like sun, nice villas and glittering shopping malls. |
Car and Driver
May 2006
Aaron Robinson |
Preview Review: Porsche Cayenne Turbo S This $112,415 Porsche sport-ute is stupidly fast, with a belligerent roar from the twin-turbo 4.5-liter V-8. |
National Real Estate Investor
December 22, 2003
Parke Chapman |
Planned Ground Zero Building To Be World's Tallest It's finally official -- the first building to be developed on Ground Zero will be the 1,776-ft. "Freedom Tower." The building will boast 2.6 million sq. ft. of office space within 60 stories. |
Commercial Investment Real Estate
Jan/Feb 2015
James Kennedy |
Cell Tower Leases Several factors determine the value of these investments. |
Popular Mechanics
February 12, 2008
Matt Sullivan |
Dubai's Mile-Long Super Bridge Set for March Construction Leave it to Dubai to build a bridge way harder, faster and stronger. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2010
Gerard Torres |
Wireless Cash Flow Battle Wireless infrastructure companies spend money to make cash. Who wins? |
Fast Company
September 2009
Lauren Greenfield |
Bye-Bye, Dubai Not long ago, Dubai emerged as a symbol of crazed civic ambition, a once-quiet desert burg suddenly superheated by cheap capital. That's over. |
National Real Estate Investor
June 6, 2003
Parke Chapman |
Hines Plans New 40-story Chicago Tower Hines will begin construction this fall on a 40-story office tower in Chicago at One Dearborn Street. The 820,000 sq. ft. tower is expected to be finished during the fourth quarter of 2004. |
Real Travel Adventures
February 2008
Larry Taylor |
From Middle East Glitz to Ancient Treasures Taking a cruise along the coast of Oman and into the Red Sea. |
National Real Estate Investor
November 1, 2006
Jennifer Popovec |
The Tipping Point In the U.S., the number of certified green buildings built each year has mushroomed, but for most commercial developers, green has been an afterthought or a costly option. |
