About 40 years before Destiny USA, the proposed Primex Building on Warren and James Streets might have been Syracuse’s most glamourous building project. It was the early 1960s, a period of transition ...
Structures that can spin around change more than just the view. As Chad Randl writes in "Revolving Architecture: A History of Buildings that Rotate, Swivel, and Pivot": "With ever-changing vantage ...
ANSWER: Revolving doors serve as an airlock, which keeps cold air out, thereby reducing heating costs. Revolving doors cut off the air path between the outside of the building and the inside.
If you've ever taken a slow spin in Seattle's Space Needle, you'll understand the allure of Portland architect Ben Kaiser's tiny, twirling house. Here, he's turned convention on its head by taking a ...
Diners love revolving restaurants — or, at least, restaurateurs think they do. After all, there are hundreds of the spinning dining platforms to be found around the world, including dozens in the ...
On Sept. 12, crews successfully rotated a 64-ft-dia turntable, complete with its unique cable management system, for the world's first revolving rent-a-lab for full-scale green-building-systems ...