When the 456-meter-tall Kunming Junfa Dongfeng Square tower opens in Kunming City, China, in mid-2017, it will stand as one of the world’s tallest naturally ventilated buildings. Roughly ...

There’s a debate within the multifamily building community as to the best way to ventilate residential buildings. There are three competing design options that can be implemented in residential design ...

Does living without air conditioning sound too difficult? Learn from old home design techniques to save energy and money while relying less on air conditioning. Most people have limited tolerance for ...

Gensler’s new 545-foot-tall Tower at PNC Plaza is hardly the tallest skyscraper in downtown Pittsburgh. That distinction belongs to Harrison, Abramovits & Abbes’s 841-foot-tall U.S. Steel Tower, built ...

The architects’ main design concern was to provide optimal amounts of natural lighting to the interior space of the residence. This was a challenge because of the narrow plot, since it is surrounded ...

In certain parts of the country, working inside of a power plant during summer can be very challenging on both personnel and equipment. Also, the higher you go inside a power plant, the hotter it gets ...