In the mid-1880s, Chicago pulled off something nobody else had tried before by building a tall, metal-framed office tower called the Home Insurance Building. We’d call that a skyscraper today. It didn ...

A proposed new skyscraper in downtown San Francisco would be the tallest building in the U.S. outside of New York and Chicago - bumping Philadelphia and Los Angeles down in the rankings. At 1,225 feet ...

A 1,225 foot-high new tower that would be the tallest building on the West Coast has been proposed for San Francisco. An application to build the tower, which would feature 1.6 million square feet of ...

In one hour and 32 minutes — just two minutes over his own estimation — Alex Honnold completed his free solo climb of Taipei 101, an eye-boggling spectacle live-streamed by Netflix and watched by a ...

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