 Imagine Piccadilly Circus ringed by tall buildings with a spaghetti like mess of roads running through it, or building that can walk? Both of these are just a few of the projects you can check out at the Archigram Archival Project, an online collection of the work done by the seminal architecture magazine.
Read More Apologies to our readers over the last couple of days for the downtime we experienced over the previous week. Unfortunately this was unavoidable.
Read More Over the past couple of years we've written a lot about China and its seemingly endless stream of skyscrapers that are sprouting up. There's plenty of growth there, industrialisation is happening, the population is moving from the countryside to the city but is that all? What else is behind China's skyscraper boom?
Read More Yesterday I lost a friend. A lot of people did. His name was Darren but you probably knew him as Downfallen.
Read More Recently English Heritage has gone through a number of fights to try and stop skyscrapers in London, the latest of which concluded only a matter of weeks ago over Doon Street Tower.
Read More The Dubai skyscraper dream may be going pop now, but it was never really the biggest or most spectacular one in the world despite the PR saying otherwise.
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 Today the Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building, opens in a lavish celebration in Dubai amidst financial turbulence that almost consumed the Emirate.
Read More A lot has been written in the press over the last couple of days about what is as yet an unproposed 2012 monument championed by London's mayor, Boris Johnson to stand on the Olympic site.
Read More I read an interesting article on the BBC news website yesterday talking about various indicators of economic recovery and how people perceive construction cranes to be one of them? Is this true though? Does the construction of buildings with tower cranes really relate to the economic growth of the country?
Read More If you've watched the news any time in the last year or so you would think the property sector, and tall buildings in general are heading towards depression and economic armageddon. The reality though is somewhat more nuanced.
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