Aircraft and cars are designed using elaborate digital models. Now the same idea is being applied to buildings Read article more »

Despite the attack on the twin towers, plenty of skyscrapers are rising. They are taller and more daring than ever, but still mostly monuments to magnificence Read article more »

1643 "Form follows function," said Louis Sullivan, an American skyscraper architect, in 1896. Not always. But look above: love defies death. And below: the triumph of engineering. 1889 And below: the igloo, a design (an outsize example, t… more »