Darmstadt and Dubai present the extreme possibilities of contemporary living. In the first, a small town south of Frankfurt, you find the Passivhaus Institut. Since 1996, it has been experimenting ...

Many big, public buildings have revolving doors at street level. For a lot of people, these doors are a little more annoying to use than normal “swing” doors, leading them to ask the question — are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...