Oct 16, Chicago

There's an important conference coming up in Chicago. It's called "Evolution of the Skyscraper: New challenges in a world of global warming and recession." If it turns out to be more than a show-and-tell session of big projects--some finished, others dead in their tracks, still others (like Russia's planned Gazprom Tower) generating opposition--it could help evolve new models for skyscraper design once the economy picks up again...more