In the Know - Volume 1, No. 3
Philip Johnson, Elder Statesman of U.S. Architecture, Dies at 98
Comcast to Build $435M Tower in Philadelphia
The building will be the city tallest and is claimed by architect Robert Stern to be the largest green commercial building to date.
Paris Airport Terminal Collapse
Fire Engulfs Office Building in Madrid – Feb 12, 2005
One of the Spanish capital’s first high-rise buildings was wrecked during a two-day fire ending Feb. 14. The blaze, which caused no injuries, is believed to have started two-thirds up the 106-meter-tall Windsor Building, in Madrid’s center. The fire stripped away many of the steel perimeter columns, exposing the 11 x 14.4-m concrete core. Completed on a 40 x 26-m footprint in 1979, the building is enclosed in a glass and aluminum skin.
Hanging robots will be used to help demolish the gutted Windsor tower
- PICTURES: Images of the fire of the Windsor building in Madrid
- Collapse threatens skyscraper in Madrid and knocks out financial area
- "The situation is still critical" at fire in Madrid
- Madrid's biggest fire destroys skyscraper
Deadly fire rages through skyscraper in central Taiwan – Feb 26, 2005