A shortage of glass is taking a toll on the nation’s commercial building boom, adding millions of dollars to the cost of new skyscrapers and halting some projects midway through construction.

Zaha Hadid Architects' The Henderson Skyscraper in Hong Kong uses four-ply, double-laminated, double-curved insulated glass panels. Photo by Jennifer Hahn ...

In the wake of a slew of criticisms on numerous glass skyscrapers’ over-reflective properties, some architects and critics are asking if it’s time to reassess our view on using glass facades ...

Last month we gave you the lowdown on the skyslide, 45 feet of bulletproof glass perched 1,000 feet in the air and attached to the side of the U.S. Bank building in downtown L.A.

Ryan Companies is the contractor behind the ATX Tower, a roughly 670-foot-tall skyscraper located at 321 W. Sixth St. in downtown Austin. The more than 834,000-square-foot development, completed back ...

No form of architecture more perfectly epitomizes the 20th century than the glass tower. From Manhattan to Moscow, glistening skyscrapers became not only the most practical response to densely ...

A pane of glass being installed on the top level of a 30-story skyscraper in San Francisco's South of Market plummeted to the street Friday, damaging windows on another building across the street.

One of the architects behind London's famous Gherkin skyscraper has now turned against glass buildings. Is it time tall towers were made out of something else, asks Hannah Sander. It is one of the ...

The 45-foot-long "Skyslide" opened last month on the side of the US Bank Tower, running between the 70th and 69th floors nearly 1,000 feet above the street, notes the AP. Gayle Yashar, 57, claims ...