Following our feature investigating why skyscrapers are often clad in glass, we've rounded up 10 contemporary skyscrapers from around the world that use a variety of other materials for their ...

No form of architecture more perfectly epitomizes the 20th century than the glass tower. From Manhattan to Moscow, glistening skyscrapers became not only the most practical response to densely ...

UN building in New York. United Nations Photo/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND. The iconic “International Style” skyscraper – a prismatic glass surface wrapped around a central service core – was ...

It was first built in America during the 1950s—the UN Building (1952), Lever House (1954) and the Seagram Tower (1958) of New York are seminal dark glass-walled office buildings, that spawned ...

Woolworth, Empire State, the Chrysler Building… With its 300 or so skyscrapers over 150 metres tall, New York forms a real glass and concrete jungle. Take to the heights to discover its towering ...

The first modern glass building is coming to Boca Raton’s downtown area since the modification of a more than 30-year-old city ordinance limiting how much glass can be used to construct buildings.

No form of architecture more perfectly epitomizes the 20th century than the glass tower. From Manhattan to Moscow, glistening skyscrapers became not only the most practical response to densely ...

The iconic “International Style” skyscraper – a prismatic glass surface wrapped around a central service core – was envisioned during the 1920s and 1930s, by German architects who fled to ...