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 ...

For all the promise of rotation, Selkowitz's dream carousel almost died when Overaa's low bid of $10.3 million for the entire FLEXLAB came in $1.7 million over the $8.6-million budget estimate. The ...

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.

San Francisco's Ferry Building may or may not be kicking tenants out the door. It all depends on who you believe. Reports surfaced late last week that two recently departed Ferry Building tenants did ...

IN BIOLOGY almost nothing revolves freely. An owl's head, for example, can twist so far round that it faces backward, but when the bird wants to look forward again, it must turn its head back the way ...

Revolving doors can be clumsy, but once you learn the good that they do to help the environment, you’ll rethink how you feel about them. Invented in the late 19th century, revolving doors were ...

Boon Edam Inc., a global provider of security entrances and architectural revolving doors, announced that Utrecht University in The Netherlands has installed a custom-made, TQM manual revolving door ...

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 ...