This surprisingly located supertall just cleared a crucial hurdle. In Oklahoma City — where plans are underway for what would be, at 1,907 feet high, the tallest building in the US — developer Matteson Capital has now received the green light to build a tower without any height restrictions, according to Dezeen. Last Tuesday, the […]
Crossing the Line Saudi Arabia is working on a comically colossal skyscraper, called “The Line,” that aims to stretch across 105 miles of desert and tower over the Empire State Building. And that’s only one part of an even greater ambition, the world’s largest construction project simply called “Neom.” Unsurprisingly, The Line is already turning […]
It’s one of the most imposing buildings in downtown Wilmington: The nine-story Cape Fear Hotel Apartments on Chestnut Street between Front and Second streets. Built 100 years ago and opened on Jan. 10, 1925, it’s the only surviving pre-World War II hotel downtown. In his 1984 book “Wilmington, North Carolina: An Architectural and Historical Portrait,” […]
The deadly 7.4 magnitude earthquake that hit Taiwan on Wednesday and left at least 9 people dead, also damaged more than 100 buildings across the island, according to the National Fire Agency (NFA). About half of them were near the epicenter in Hualien County, where four structures partially collapsed. In the capital Taipei, just 80 […]
LANSING — The City Council Monday could approve several hundred million dollars worth of downtown developments that will change the capital city’s skyline. After a delay in February, council members are expected to vote on a pair of $40 million state appropriations − for a new city hall and the city’s first new skyscraper in […]
Los Angeles police arrested two people this week in connection with a spate of graffiti on nearly 30 floors of an unoccupied and unfinished downtown skyscraper. The tagging stretches across a large portion of a tower in the $1bn Oceanwide Plaza, a stalled mixed-use retail and residential project that has sat unfinished since 2019. The […]
Two men were arrested, cited and released in connection with graffiti covering some 27 floors of an unfinished luxury skyscraper in downtown Los Angeles, authorities announced Thursday. Officers with the Los Angeles Police Department responded to a vandalism call on Jan. 30 at around 12:45 a.m. in the 1200 block of South Figueroa, the site […]
Taggers have graffitied what appears to be more than 25 stories of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper that’s been sitting dormant for several years. Construction on Oceanwide Plaza, a $1 billion mixed-use retail and luxury apartments project with three towering unfinished structures, stalled in January 2019 after the Beijing-based developer lacked the funds to complete […]
A glassy 27-story skyscraper set to transform Durham’s skyline is now as tall as it’s going to get. Despite occasional rain and stormy clouds hovering above, construction crews this week completed the final floor of The Novus, the high-rise development at 400 W. Main Street in the Five Points district, one of the city’s most […]
Could Oklahoma become home to the tallest building in the country? Developers for an Oklahoma City project recently asked the city to approve a height increase to a new development’s building, according to a news release. This proposal is part of planning for The Boardwalk at Bricktown, a 5 million-square-foot development in downtown Oklahoma City, […]
Editor’s Note: Past|Present is a video series from The Star that travels through time to show how scenes of Kansas City depicted in vintage postcards look today. Have a postcard you’d like to share with our team? Tell us about it here. Kansas City’s second skyscraper, the Scarritt Building, wasn’t quite as tall as the […]
Looked at in a certain way, one of history’s most famous photographs is actually rather dull. It’s just a bunch of men, siting in a line. Some of them are holding lunchboxes, one is lighting a cigarette, another is holding a glass bottle that looks like it might contain liquor. No one is planking, or […]