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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February 25, Mumbai
Making Over Mumbai
There's not much that the inhabitants of Dharavi can't recycle. Every day thousands of workers in India's most crowded slum--600,000 people squeezed into 500 acres (200 hectares) in the heart of Mumbai--shred plastic, mend clothes, strip computers, sort and bundle paper, fix machinery, flatten cardboard and clean and crush glass...More
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February 21, Chicago
Lucien Lagrange Designs Chicago Condo Towers
Lucien Lagrange Architects has designed a couple of slick new condo towers to stand in Chicago. Standing at 137 metres and 115 metres respectively, the two residential towers called X/O Condominiums have rather nice kinks in the middle making them look like they are boogying down on the dance floor...More |
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February 21
The world's tallest towers
As G7 economies battle the subprime crisis, emerging markets continue to power ahead. So does construction there. The huge number of companies setting up in the region is driving demand for office and residential space...More
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February 19, Brisbane
CBD skyscraper reaches for sustainability
A new 44-storey commercial tower on Brisbane's Eagle Street will become the most environmentally sustainable skyscraper in the country when completed, its developer has claimed. The GPT Group received approval last month to construct the high-rise on a site in Brisbane's growing corporate precinct...More
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February 19, Seville
Pelli Wins Seville Scraper Competition
Yet another design contest has been held. This time it was Seville in Spain in search of a skyscraper worthy of being the first skyscraper to grace the city's skyline. Five internationally renowned firms of architects put forward designs but in the end it was a design by Cesar Pelli that wowed the judges...More |
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February 18, Beijing
Planned skyscraper to dwarf Pudong giants
A project to build the tallest building in Shanghai is likely to break ground within the year and be topped off in 2010, dwarfing both the 492-meter-tall Shanghai World Financial Center and the 421-meter-tall Jin Mao Tower...More
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February 17, Beijing
Construction of high-rise "Shanghai Center" to start
Construction work on what will be the world's tallest building will start this year in Shanghai. The 580-meter-tall edifice will have 118 stories. It will be 72 meters higher than the Taipei 101 Tower, currently the tallest building in Asia at 508 meters...More
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February 17, Al Khaleej, p.6
World's Top Tall Buildings Highlights
An interview with CTBUH Executive Director Antony Wood with text in Arabic...read more
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February 16, Manila
RP’s most luxurious residential enclave rises in Makati
For a city known for its posh villages and pricey high-rise condominiums, the announcement of a P5.5-billion high-rise residential project rising at the intersections of Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Geronimo Street and HV dela Costa Street in Salcedo Village (formerly the site of Shell Maya fuel station) is certainly a big news...More
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February 16, Dubai
Green buildings offer clean life
"The tallest building in the world would probably not be able to qualify for the highest rank in sustainable developments, but technology exists now to give skyscrapers as low carbon footprint as possible"...More
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February 16, Gulf News, The Nation, p.2
Green Buildings Offer Clean Life
David Scott, CTBUH Chairman, extols the benefits of skyscrapers with low carbon footprints...read more
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February 15, The Big Project, February 2008, pp.36 - 39
The Tallest 20 in 2020
Philip Oldfield, CTBUH Research Coordinator, examines the currect boom in tall building construction and anticipates what will be the tallest 20 buildings in the world in 2020...read more
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February 14, Oslo
Oslo may get new skyscraper
Real-estate and hotel owner Arthur Buchardt has high ambitions-- he wants to erect the tallest building in all of the Nordic countries in Oslo. The plan is for a 200-meter skyscraper (for Norway) that will dwarf all of Oslo’s highest buildings...More
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February 13, Abu Dhabi
Hyder designing skyscraper twice as tall as Burj Dubai
The UK's Hyder Consulting is designing a structure that will be twice as tall as the Burj Dubai, according to a consultant involved with the project - making it by far the tallest tower in the world...More
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February 13, Perth
Largest Remaining Site In Perth Set For Tower
The largest plot of land left in Perth's Central Business District, Capital Square, will soon become home to the largest development ever to be undertaken in the Australian city. Designed by architects, Crone and Partners, the development will see three towers built...More
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February 13, Property Weekly, p.54.
Dubai's Tall Claims to Fame
While the Burj Dubai is just months away from completion, another tower in Dubai made it to the top of the ten tallest buildings completed during 2007. At 333m high and 72 storeys, the Rose Rotana Tower has been accorded this status by the CTBUH...read more
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February 12, London
Majestic views from Buckingham Palace saved
A panoramic view across London that has been enjoyed by England's kings and queens for generations has been saved. Plans to build two skyscrapers 50 yards from Buckingham Palace have been withdrawn following an outcry from conservation groups...More
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February 12, UAE
New technologies key to constructing sustainable buildings in Gulf region.
The construction industry needs to support sustainable development techniques from the moment a new building enters its planning stages, according to a leading expert. In a paper presented to a prestigious conference in Abu Dhabi, Dr Bassam Abu-Hijleh, Atkins Senior Lecturer...More
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February 11, Dubai
Full Moon Rising
Heerim Architects has attempted to reinvent the skyscraper beyond the traditional with two lunar inspired projects in the central Asian republic of Azerbaijan. The Korean firm has dreamed up Full Moon Bay and Caspian Plus that includes Crescent Place on neighbouring peninsulas in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku that look on to the Caspian Sea...More
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February 11, Murmansk
Norwegians are building skyscraper in Murmansk
With Norwegian real estate investor, Olav Thon, as one of the leading men, a group of Norwegian investors are planning to realise a project of gigantic proportions in Murmansk, called Arctic Arena...More
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February 11, Seattle
A new angle on Seattle's skyline
The developer who saved the historic First United Methodist Church sanctuary last year has unveiled plans for an asymmetrical skyscraper next door that could be a striking addition to the downtown Seattle skyline...More
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February 11, United States
EPA And Partners Launch "Green Infrastructure" Plan
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with its state and national partners, has released a plan that it says will help reduce stormwater runoff and sewer overflows by promoting "green infrastructure," such as green roofs, trees, tree boxes, rain gardens, and porous pavements...More
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February 8, New York
Robert AM Stern unveils Manhattan skyscraper
New York practice Robert AM Stern Architects has unveiled its latest addition to Manhattan's famous skyline, a 278m-tall tower adjacent to the Ground Zero site. The project, commissioned by New York property mogul Larry Silverstein, harks back to the Neo-Gothic style of the 1920s and 1930s with its use of limestone and cast-stone materials...More
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February 7, Chicago
Construction underway on Goettsch Partners' 155 North Wacker
Following on the success of 111 South Wacker, completed in 2005, and UBS Tower, completed in 2001, 155 North Wacker marks the third collaboration between Goettsch Partners and developer The John Buck Company along the prominent Wacker Drive business corridor in downtown Chicago...More
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February 7, Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce, February 7th, p. 4&8.
What's the Best Way Out of a Skyscraper?
Inventors dream up personal escape devices for building evacuations, but experts say the future is strengthening stairs, elevators and even sky-bridges for escape. Includes interviews with Ron Klemencic (CTBUH Immediate Past Chairman) and Antony Wood (CTBUH Executive Director)...read more
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February 5, New York
City Seeking Tougher Rules for High-Rise Construction
The city’s Buildings Department, moving to shore up safety on construction sites after a worker fell 42 stories to his death last month, proposed new regulations on Monday that would require general contractors and concrete operators to register with the city...More
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February 5, Los Angeles
New 52 Floor Residental Proposed In Los Angeles
Proposals by the Amidi Group have been put forward for a new skyscraper that will possibly grace the skyline of Los Angeles in the not to distant future. Located at 1027 Wilshire Boulevard in downtown L.A...More
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February 5, Dubai
Pace Of Work On Burj Dubai Accelerated
Work on the Burj Dubai, set to become the world's tallest building, has been accelerated with 50 percent of its exterior cladding being completed. 'The architectural and design splendour of Burj Dubai is now coming to fruition with the installation of the cladding, which is being executed on an accelerated schedule'...More
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February 4, New York
Building at World Trade Center is a showcase of terrorproof technologies
When a documentary crew wanted to film the emergency glow-strips that line the expansive stairwells in 7 World Trade Center, Dara McQuillan called down to the security desk and asked them to flick off the lights. Moments after the stairwell went dark, however, a backup power system switched on and ruined the shot...More
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February 4, Baku
Heerim Architects Pen SOCAR Tower
Baku in Azerbaijan is set to become the home of a shiny new skyscraper that will become the new head office for the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan or SOCAR for short. The stunning design comes from the drawing boards of Korean based architects Heerim Architects and Planners Co Ltd who have also recently opened new offices in Baku...More
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February 4, San Francisco
A beautiful green building for Embarcadero
Now that "green" buildings are all the rage, San Francisco could see the real thing sprout on the Embarcadero: a glass office building scaled by vines that change color with the seasons. The proposed 10-story building would rise from a sliver of land next to the Audiffred Building...More
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February 3
Never mind the height of a building - feel its intelligence
Prince Charles, who complained last week that high-rise architecture has 'vandalised' London, is more interested in taste and taboo than technology. With its mixture of misbegotten sentiment and purposive social action, his unhealthy fantasy world of Poundbury is a lifeless and depressing pastiche...More
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February 2, Dubai
Emirati youth climbs 85,000 steps to stardom
A smiling Jalal bin Thaneya early yesterday morning wound up his ‘Project Tower 100’ as he descended the last stairs of the Dubai World Trade Centre in an adventurous feat aimed at fundraising for a noble cause. Although going up and down the stairs of 100 highrise buildings might be considered a ‘herculean feat’, Jalal was at his modest best...More
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February 1, Gulf Construction, February 2008, p. 49 & 51
Tall Buildings 'Need to be Reinvented"
Future tall building design needs to be inspired by both the physical and environmental aspects of the location and reinvent itself as the ideal solution for both a dense, sustainable city and all-inclusive urban living says Antony Wood...read more
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February 1, Cityscape Magazine, February 2008, pp.60 - 63
Reinventing the High-Rise
As Dubai prepares to host the UAE's first tall buildings world congress next month, the future of sky high development is set for hot debate...read more
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February, New York
Renzo Piano Building Workshop with FXFOWLE
Renzo Piano Building Workshop and FXFOWLE present a quietly luminous addition to the Manhattan skyline with The New York Times Building. In the past few years, New York City has been valiantly trying to turn around its deserved reputation for treating innovative architecture like an exotic disease that should be stamped out...More
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February, London
City planning boss backs Prince Charles’ anti-tower harangue
Peter Rees, the planning director of the City of London, has backed the Prince of Wales’ attack on the “random” spread of tall buildings in London. Rees’ unexpected support follows a speech by Prince Charles last week...More
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