The Skyscraper Curse, also known as the Skyscraper Index, is an economic theory that suggests a correlation between the construction of the world's tallest buildings and impending financial crises.

In the mid-1880s, Chicago pulled off something nobody else had tried before by building a tall, metal-framed office tower called the Home Insurance Building. We’d call that a skyscraper today. It didn ...

This story has been updated to correct that the Palace Theater did not have 8,500 seats. That was the planned number, but the final total was just under 2,700. The downtown Columbus skyline would be ...