The CTBUH Global News Archive is the primary place to get all the latest news on tall buildings, urban development and sustainable construction from around the world. The CTBUH also disseminates this information via our Monthly e-Newsletter, CTBUH Journal, and through books and reports.
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December 30, New York
The World of Tomorrow
On Jan. 1, 1908 — New Year’s Day one century ago — The New York World greeted readers with a stirring rumination about the past and future of America. The title of the article was simply “1808 — 1908 — 2008.” The World began by marveling at how far America had come since 1808, then turned to the question of the future...More
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December 27, Dubai
JB Group takes prime spot with 'diamond' skyscraper
The JB Tower, a state-of-the-art commercial block scheduled to break ground in March, is the flagship in a $1.6bn property venture in the Middle East by the JB Group. Designed in the shape of the JB Group logo - a converged diamond and lotus, India's national flower...More
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December 27, Moscow
World’s biggest building, Crystal Island, to be constructed in Moscow
Sir Norman Foster, one of the leading architects of our times, currently launches a project of world’s largest building. The building will be built in Moscow, The Sunday Times reports. The skyscraper, dubbed as the Crystal Island, is 449.88 meters high. When completed, the building will look like a spiraling pyramid...More
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December 21
'Tower of tomorrow' unveiled at World Future Energy Summit
The unveiling of a conceptual design for a skyscraper that can do “everything a tree can do except replicate” will be one of the highlights of the inaugural World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi next month...More
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December 19
How Green is Your Neighborhood?
Technology has gotten us into the climate change mess, and we assume that technology will get us out of it. Hybrid cars, wind turbines, algae biofuel — businesses and policymakers alike are searching for the technological fixes that will decarbonize our lives...More
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December 19, Warsaw
Warsaws Second Tallest Penned By Zaha
Warsaw's blossoming skyline could soon have a new addition to its funky looking skyscraper family. Lillium, owners of the Lim Centre in Warsaw perhaps better known as the Marriott recently asked some of the best known architects in the world to draw up plans for a 200 metre tall tower to be sited near the Marriott...More
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December 19, Cincinnati
Proposed Skyscraper Would Be Tallest In Cincinnati
A building proposed for downtown Cincinnati would be the city's tallest structure, a 40-story office tower near the Ohio River. Western & Southern Financial Group met with city officials on Tuesday to propose a timeline for its Queen City Square project, which could open in 2011...More
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December 19, Emirates Business 24/7, p.32
Dubai is Built on a Platform of Confidence
Antony Wood, suggests Dubai must seize the chance to become an example to the rest of the planet by creating more green buildings and becoming a beacon of sustainability....read more
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December 17, Dubai
Dubais Mother of Pearl
The ever expanding skyline of Dubai could finally get its pearl by developer, the Al-Fahim Group. The project, named the Dubai Pearl was announced way back in 2002 and originally consisted of nine mixed use towers but a lot of water, architects and developers have passed under the bridge since then...More
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December 17, Bombay
Waves along the Bombay waterfront
The building form is derived from the outline of the crests of the waves of the sea. Linear undulating balconies traverse the length of this residential apartment building offering unrestricted views of the sea to each of the apartments...More
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December 16, Wuhan
High rise apartments with built-in greenhouse
Now one can imagine high-rise apartments with its own integrated greenhouses enabling residents to grow variety of vegetables for self-consumption and sufficient left over to generate additional income. Two lecturers of Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Tagit Klimor and David Knafo have developed the design for such a structure...More
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December 16, Busan
Busan to Have 117-Story Building
Busan Metropolitan City will launch a big project to build a 117-story resort building. According to Busan Urban Development Corporation (BUDC), it will enter into an agreement with ``Triple Square Consortium (TSC)’’ on Tuesday to construct the super large resort building at Haeundae, the biggest beach in the country...More
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December 15, Dubai
Tackling challenge of building green skyscrapers
How to achieve sustainability and build high-rise buildings? The upcoming Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Congress in March in Dubai will address how to build. Antony Wood, executive director of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) said many real estate companies and developers have started...More
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December 15, Gulf News, p.17
Tackling Challenge of Building Green Skyscrapers
Antony Wood discusses the next challenge in Dubai's roadmap to turning buildings green - how to build sustainable skyscrapers...read more
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December 14, Toronto
Libeskind Puts The Boot Into Toronto
Toronto could soon become a Mecca for shoe fetishists everywhere with the building of a new skyscraper called the L Tower. Supposedly a letter L, the tower designed by architect Daniel Libeskind (guess where the L bit of the towers name comes from) its more reminiscent of a sexy, knee high, platform boot...More
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December 13, Dubai Eye 103.8
Antony Wood Radio Interview
Antony Wood, CTBUH Executive Director, discusses the Council's plans for the 2008 Dubai World Congress, the potential for sustainability in tall buildings and the technical achievements of the Burj Dubai...Listen here
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December 12, San Francisco
Newsom Launches Stricter Control Of Carbon Emissions
San Francisco will tighten control of carbon emissions under legislation proposed today by Mayor Gavin Newsom, requiring stricter regulation of new building construction and renovation of existing buildings. New commerical buildings, residential buildings more than 75 feet in height, and renovation of structures with more than 25,000 square feet will be affected...More
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December 11, Paris
Antismog Is In The Paris Air
A truly original proposal has been put forward in Paris France for a structure which is to be named Antismog. Although it is perhaps the ultimate in environmentally friendly design it looks like our French cousins were smoking some of the grass that theoretically covers parts of this design whilst they were drawing it up...More
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December 11, 7 Days Newspaper, p.16
Time to Realise the Green Dream
Despite the tremendous volume of construction projects in Dubai, the emirate has only recently begun to consider the impact on the environment and think how to counteract this with a sustainable vision. According to the CTBUH, this is absolutely vital for the future of Dubai...read more
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December 11, Emirates Business 24/7, p.8
Dubai is 'Epicentre for Tall Buildings'
Antony Wood discusses the CTBUH 8th World Congress in Dubai, the technical achievements of the Burj Dubai and also promotes the city as one of the world's epicentres for tall buildings...read more
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December 9
Airborne Wind Turbines
Traditional wind turbines can be unreliable sources of energy because, well, the wind blows where it will. Not the case 1,000 feet up. “At a thousand feet, there is steady wind anywhere in the world,” says Mac Brown, chief operating officer of Ottawa-based Magenn Power...More
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December 6, Sydney
Space Age Comes To Sydney
Sydney, Australia will soon be catching up with the rest of the world with the approval of its first ever double skinned skyscraper. Named Space, the tower designed by German architectural firm, Ingenhoven, will stand at 138 metres and have 30 storeys with a further four basement levels presumably for parking...More
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December 5, Gandhinagar
Indian Plans For Sci Fi Super City
India is soon to have a massive boom in construction with the arrival of the Gujarat International Finance Tech-City, a huge name for a huge project. Located at Gandhinagar, the capital city of the hugely industrial Indian state of Gujarat...More
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December 5, New York
Plans revealed for NYC's largest brownfield site
Five teams are in the running to develop a 26-acre site owned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and located in Midtown Manhattan. All teams have been asked to provide about 12 million square feet of residential and commercial space, a cultural building, retail and parks...More
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December 1, Urban Land Institute Journal, Nov / Dec Issue, pp.71 - 75
Integrity of Place
Antony Wood suggests future tall building design needs to be inspired by both the physical and environmental aspects of place and reinvent itself as the ideal solution for both a dense, sustainable city and all inclusive urban living...read more
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