Imagine opening the curtains in the morning and instead of grey skies and rain, looking out at a rust-coloured rocky panorama. The year is 2045. You have woken up on Mars.

Skyscrapers are the traditional small-footprint solution for growing square footage in big cities, but what are developers to do in growing places like Mexico City where new building construction is limited to just ten stories tall?

Ambitious blueprint for London tower block that could house thousands of people - as well as schools, offices, shops and even parks

What’s often lost in the reporting about foreign labor in the United Arab Emirates is the agency of the workers themselves. The men I met in the Gulf are brave and ambitious—heroes to their families back home.

Covering a balloon with papier-mâché, letting it harden, and popping it to leave behind a delicate empty shell is a grade school arts and crafts tradition. For architect Nicoló Bini it’s a technique that’s become a guiding obsession, and which he believes could transform architecture in the developing world. His “Binishells” combine concrete and heavy-duty balloons to create visually stunning, structurally sound, domed domiciles.

"Binishells" combine concrete and heavy-duty balloons to create visually stunning, structurally sound, domed domiciles.

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Rescuers search for workers buried in the rubbles of a building that collapsed during monsoon rains on the outskirts of Chennai, India, June 28, 2014. The death toll rose to nine in the 11 storey-building collapse in Chennai of Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Saturday while nearly 40 people are feared trapped under the debris. Police said dozens of workers have been pulled out so far and the search is continuing.

A tearful Dan Barks, who lost his son, Donovan, to suicide on the bridge in 2008, said after the vote that he was almost speechless. "A lot of people have done so much incredible work to get this accomplished," he said.He rose from his knees and shared a tearful embrace with Sue Story of Rocklin, whose son Jacob jumped off the bridge in 2010. "We did it, Dan! We did it! It's no longer the Bridge of Death anymore," she said.

Sometimes too much love can be a bad thing as Paris discovered on Sunday when thousands of “locks of love” attached to a footbridge caused part of the railing to collapse, forcing an evacuation. Thousands of lovers from across the world visit the Pont des Arts every year and seal their love by attaching a lock carrying their names to its railing and throwing the key in the Seine.

After excavating your mega-basement in Holland Park, it’s cheaper and easier to leave the JCB entombed down there with the pool, personal cinema and staff quarters.

It may have taken the collapse of an apartment block in an exclusive district of the North Korean capital to reveal the Achilles heel of young leader Kim Jong Un's secretive regime. Last week's accident killed the families of people important enough for North Korea to issue an obsequious and unprecedented public apology in a bid to quell public anger, some analysts said. The 23-storey building in Phyongchon...

Direct Capital provides an infographic filled with information about construction equipment that you probably didn't know.

Hitachi has said it will install a lift capable of reaching speeds of 72km/h (45mph) into a skyscraper in Guangzhou, southern China.

Knocking down a concrete building usually takes brute force: Wrecking balls, huge excavators, or explosives rip apart walls while fire hoses spray water to keep the clouds of dust down. It’s an energy-intensive process, and after everything’s been torn apart, the concrete often ends up in a landfill or has to be trucked to a recycling facility. But a new concrete-erasing robot may eventually transform the messy business of demolition.

There's a lot you can do with a 3D printer. Now add "building a house in a day" to the list. The WinSun Decoration Design Engineering Co. has printed 10 homes in 24 hours out of recycled materials.

Clearly not for the faint of heart, the Zumanjaro will drop riders over 400 feet at 90 miles per hour. Take a closer look if you dare...

Painting Industry looking brighter; housing market, construction industry recovery means opportunities for painting companies to expand or franchise.

There is no revelation in considering another Oil rich Country is on verge of building another remarkable structure. However this one will top it all, as it will stand a staggering Kilometer high. In the year 2019 the World’s tallest building, The Kingdom Tower will stand in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, standing at-least 568 feet taller than The Burj-Khalifa.

San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge marked a milestone in 2013 as 46 people leaped to their deaths in what appears to be the deadliest year for suicides at the California landmark, a watchdog group said on Tuesday.