Since 2022, Chicago’s neighbor to the north has been home to the tallest timber tower in the world and is building more.

Jon Astbury investigates why they remain so popular. In 2011, British architect Ken Shuttleworth – who designed the Gherkin while at Foster + Partners – declared that "the tall glass box is dead".

In May, RECORD peers upward for a survey of six singular tall (and not-so-tall) buildings that innovate in different ways. They include a bulbous, 650-foot-tall tower in Hong Kong’s central business ...

"We are the glass building right downtown," Friehe says, "the tallest one." He’s right: Aflac lays claim to a portion of the tallest building in Sioux City – the 11-story, 168-foot Ho-Chunk ...