In 1961, a year before designing the World Trade Center towers, American architect Minoru Yamasaki completed a much smaller project that would influence the look of his new creation in New York City.

Remnants of the Mecca Flats have been unearthed next to the Mies van der Rohe-designed Crown Hall on Chicago's IIT campus. (Joseph Altshuler) The Mecca Flats was built in 1892 and was expected to ...

5Pointz, the Queens building known for more than 15 years as a mecca for graffiti art that was featured in films and music videos, was painted over during the night as the building faces demolition to ...

At the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the booming call to prayer competes with the racket of construction. The Grand Mosque is the destination for the most sacred Muslim pilgrimage and it holds ...

The new owners of the troublesome “Mecca building” in downtown Rockville have plans to turn it into ” a showplace.” Peter Bylykbashi, Nancy Bylykbashi and Linda Ahlstrand bought the building from ...