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Most people agree that New York City needs more housing. But in the heart of Brooklyn, a proposal for a high-rise with hundreds of new apartments has hit an unlikely [...]

The residential high-rise tower in Jeddah is the latest of several developments that the former president's company has planned for the Middle East. The Trump Organization has signed a new [...]

The congested, chaotic section of Manhattan near Pennsylvania Station, which teems with tourists, commuters and shoppers, is undeniably drab. Does that make it blighted? New York State has decreed that [...]

The state says revenue from the new towers can finance the rebuilding of the rail terminal. But the pandemic has upended the need for office space. For years, one of [...]

The possibility that JPMorgan Chase would build a two-towered, $6.5 billion headquarters on the Far West Side of Manhattan streaked across the skyline in recent weeks, only to die quietly [...]

A little-known investor who owns Grand Central Terminal made a $400 million offer on Tuesday to buy an adjoining block where he plans to build a skyscraper so tall that [...]

Real estate brokers have long described New Jersey's gold coast, stretching from Jersey City to Weehawken, as the sixth borough of New York City, where apartments offer the best views [...]

The developer Larry A. Silverstein plans to resume construction of a long-stalled 80-story building at the World Trade Center site immediately, under an agreement the Port Authority of New York [...]

A developer plans to build a 65-story tower directly west of Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan that would soar 1,200 feet above 42nd Street, 150 feet taller than the [...]

For decades, one of New York City's biggest real estate families has been trying to demolish a pair of historic tenements on the Upper East Side to make way for [...]

THE Palisades, a treasured American landmark, are under threat. The consumer electronics maker LG Electronics USA is preparing to construct a towering headquarters building along the Hudson River north of [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- The city that once boasted that no building would be higher than William Penn's hat atop City Hall is getting a new skyscraper, to be the city's tallest [...]

MONACO -- As protests go, it was tiny: just a handful of people gathering quietly at a condemned building they thought should not be torn down. But in a place [...]

South Street Seaport, an often-neglected corner of Manhattan dedicated to enshrining New York's seafaring past, has been battered by storms, recessions and poor management. Now, there is a proposal for [...]

In recent weeks, two competing illustrations have popped up in different corners of the Internet. In one of them, eight silvery towers perch at the waterfront of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, like [...]

Time Warner Inc. has a tentative deal to move its headquarters farther west in Manhattan in what would be a major reshuffling meant to accelerate the long-awaited development of what [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDTwo of the country's most valuable sports franchises extended their reach to New York's newest and tallest perch Tuesday morning, when they unveiled plans for the three-level ''One World [...]

MONACO -- Monaco is already known for its fortress palace, fabled casino and annual yacht show. But soon the Tour Odon, a 70-unit residential tower, will rise 170 meters into [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED After years of inactivity, the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine is completing a lease agreement to bring a second residential tower -- and a second stream [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED For more than a decade, a prominent New York developer has sought to build a glass skyscraper over the Port Authority Bus Terminal, transforming an eyesore at the [...]

New York City approved plans on Wednesday for a skyscraper near Pennsylvania Station that will rise to within 34 feet in height of the nearby Empire State Building, inserting a [...]

After weeks of negotiations, a front-runner has emerged in the search for a private partner at 1 World Trade Center, the $3.3 billion skyscraper under construction at ground zero. Douglas [...]

Gary Barnett, one of New York City's most prolific developers, is about to start construction of a $1.3 billion skyscraper on 57th Street that will overtake Trump World Tower as [...]

The planned skyscraper once known as the Freedom Tower was scorned for years by urban planners, downtown residents and real estate executives who regarded it as an oversize and unnecessary [...]

As much as the twin towers of the first World Trade Center became an international symbol of New York ascendant, the 232 acres inside the buildings undercut private landlords with [...]

The news on Thursday that the Port Authority and the developer Larry A. Silverstein had ceased hostilities and come to a tentative agreement at ground zero was greeted with a [...]

Mirax, a Moscow developer, has decided not to build the top 30 stories on a showcase skyscraper that was to have been the tallest tower in Europe but will now [...]

After yet another impasse between the developer and the owner of the World Trade Center site, Mayor Michael Bloomberg invited the big players to Gracie Mansion last week. Around the […]

From the department of silver linings comes this item from Russia: because of the financial crisis, plans for a controversial skyscraper that would have towered over St. Petersburg's low-slung Baroque […]

Plans to build Ireland's tallest building, a $250 million Dublin skyscraper that would include a recording studio for the band U2, have been put on hold, The Associated Press reported. […]

Worldwide economic turmoil has not halted the multibillion-dollar plans of a group of developers to build the world's tallest tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, The Guardian of London reported. […]

Zaha Hadid will become the latest star architect to put her imprint on Warsaw. On Wednesday in the Polish capital she displayed her design, below, for a 790-foot residential skyscraper […]

First Talking Heads; now a singing building. That was the prospect for the former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne on Monday, when state officials disclosed plans for him to transform […]

Minoru Mori, Japan's most prolific developer, will finish the world's tallest building in May. Many of his colleagues might consider the 101-story Shanghai World Financial Center the crowning achievement of […]

Brookfield Properties Architects Skidmore Owings & Merrill; Thomas Phifer & Partners; SHoP Architects and Diller Scofidio + Renfro; Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa; Handel Architects. Known as Hudson Place, this […]

EXTELL DEVELOPMENT COMPANY Architect Steven Holl Architects. Extell is the only company to propose using suspension bridge technology to span the railyards on both sides of 11th Avenue. The suspension […]

The Upper East Side community board voted last night against a proposed 30-story skyscraper at 980 Madison Avenue. The tower, designed by Norman Foster, would be an addition to the […]

The co-owner of the New York Islanders hockey team is proposing a 60-story tower in the center of Nassau County -- more than triple the height of the tallest existing […]

The next crane you see on the grounds of St. John the Divine will not be there to complete the cathedral. Instead, large new buildings are planned on each end […]

Bank of America is close to signing a deal with the developer Douglas Durst to build a skyscraper on 42nd Street, near the Avenue of the Americas, which would become […]

From September 2001 through May 2002, I had the privilege of being inside the forbidden city of ground zero. I walked and photographed nearly every inch of it as it […]

Today the prospect for the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan looks much clearer than it did two days ago, in a design sense at least. After a number […]

Willard G. Rouse III, the chairman of Liberty Property Trust, has spent millions of his investors' dollars on his plan to build a skyscraper here in the heart of the […]

WHEN the star-crossed lovers of 'West Side Story,' Tony and Maria, longingly sang, 'There's a place for us,' they could hardly have conceived what would become of their gritty neighborhood […]

This is the Windy City. Transplant home of the Mississippi blues. Land of the deep-dish pizza. Birthplace of the skyscraper. City of the broad shoulders, and the stunning skyline. On […]

Plans by The New York Times to build a new headquarters on Eighth Avenue took intriguing form this week with the submission of competing proposals by some of the world's […]

A group of TriBeCa residents, led by Community Board 1, plan to keep fighting plans for a high-rise hotel in the neighborhood. The 19-story, 340-room Hudson Center Hotel, which would […]

Prompted by the collapse of a hotel in northeast Thailand last month that left more than 100 people dead, the Thai Government has announced plans to inspect all high-rise buildings, […]

The decision by one of the city's leading investment-banking companies to move its back-office departments into an unusual new building planned for Brooklyn has provoked one of the city's sharpest […]