A huge fire engulfed several high-rise blocks in a Hong Kong residential estate on Wednesday, killing at least four people, the government said, with media reporting that some residents were trapped ...

A massive fire ripped through multiple high-rise residential blocks in Hong Kong’s northern Tai Po district on Wednesday, killing at least 36 people and injuring 29 as authorities struggled to bring ...

Thirteen people have been killed, including a firefighter, as seven high-rise residential buildings burn in Tai Po, Hong Kong. A firefighter is among 13 people who have been killed as flames engulfed ...

Holmes Chan and Tommy Wang AFP Nov 26, 2025 Nov 26, 2025 Updated 21 mins ago The death toll from a high-rise fire in Hong Kong has risen to at least 44, officials said Thursday as the blaze still ...

The shadow housing secretary has endorsed calls for “beauty” to be put at the heart of the Government’s planning policy.

Nine blocks of council-owned flats in Sheffield are under what is known as a "waking watch" amid concerns over the fire risk posed by their external insulation, residents have been told. The waking ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — It’s getting harder to keep track of all the high-rise developments in Ann Arbor as more and more keep getting proposed and approved. Several projects that will alter the downtown ...

WE ALL CAN THINK of hidden treasures that shouldn’t be. One of them is in downtown Philadelphia. Until 1987, anyone wanting to build taller than the hat on the William Penn statue atop City Hall was ...

The fate of so many of our region's high-rises remains uncertain, but there is still belief that they have a place in our ...

Plans to build student flats on top of Southwark Tube station have been approved again after a technicality meant they had to be reconsidered. Southwark Council's planning committee has approved the ...

This has driven the rise of a throwaway culture worldwide. The United Nations estimates that the global volume of discarded electronic goods – known as e-waste – will rise to 82 million tonnes by 2030 ...