In the mid-1880s, Chicago pulled off something nobody else had tried before by building a tall, metal-framed office tower called the Home Insurance Building. We’d call that a skyscraper today. It didn ...

Dozens of workers are turning the 22-story Grant-Deneau Tower into a 21st-century living space. “Everything you see, we build ourselves, we don’t purchase a lot, we do it all in-house,” Jason Dorsey, ...

As the first building to be built from an iron frame, the Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings in England is a forerunner of all iron- and steel-framed towers. Now, its custodians want people to know that. In ...

This story has been updated to correct that the Palace Theater did not have 8,500 seats. That was the planned number, but the final total was just under 2,700. The downtown Columbus skyline would be ...