A new lightweight lift cable will let buildings soar ever upward WHEN Elisha Otis stood on a platform at the 1854 World Fair in New York and ordered an axeman to cut the rope used to hoist h... Read more
The urban future From buildings sucking water from Himalayan glaciers to round towers that let residents escape from danger, here are 10 ways that architects imagine how the quintessential u... Read more
One man who never forgot the images of people jumping out of the twin towers on 9/11 has created a device that he says could be used to escape a skyscraper. Dr. Kevin Stone, a California ort... Read more