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November 28, New York
Proposed 1,000 foot skyscraper would be Brooklyn's tallest structure
Here's a building that's high on Brooklyn. Developer Bruce Ratner has plans to build a skyscraper downtown that could eclipse the Williamsburgh Savings Bank, making it Brooklyn's tallest structure...More |
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November 28, Dubai
World's tall building experts to convene in Dubai
With the world's tallest building - the Burj Dubai nearing completion and HH Sheikh Mohammed's directive to adopt a green building model, Dubai has become the perfect setting for the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's 8th World Congress...More
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November 27, Penang
Asymptote to Spice Up Penang's Skyline
During the 18th century, spice attracted both traders and pirates to Penang, an island harbor for ships on the Strait of Malacca in Malaysia. Now, government officials are hoping that 21st-century vanguard architecture and luxurious beachfront resorts will once again draw international visitors to the island...More
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November 27, New York
SOM Aim For Hudson Yards Win
A competition has been launched to find the best use for one of the most coveted pieces of land in New York right now, Hudson Yards. With a larger footprint than the World Trade Centre site, a few singular towers have been proposed for the site but the Metropolitan Transportation Authority decided to put some of New York's best known developers to the test...More
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November 26, Shenzen
Construction begins at Shenzhen Stock Market
Officials from the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SSE) and local government together with representatives from the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) have broken ground for the construction of the new headquarters for China’s equivalent of the NASDAQ...More
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November 26, New York
The power of the tower
Herbert Muschamp, the former architecture critic of the New York Times, put it best. "Since the 1970s," he wrote, "the reigning law in New York building has been: thou shalt not commit architecture here." Indeed, the CBS building, with its powerfully ribbed, black granite facade, was probably Manhattan's last truly impressive skyscraper. And it was completed in 1965...More
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November 26, New York
Rogers New York Towers Approved
Approval has been given to an interesting new complex for the Rogers designed SilverCup Studios on the Queens waterfront, New York. The site will be developed by the founders of SilverCup, Stuart and Alan Suna, the six acre site will cost close to $1 billion to develop in to an visually attractive complex...More
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November 23, New York
Midtown Manhattan is an urban icon
With his design for the Tower Verre, Jean Nouvel proposes to take the strict respect of the zoning envelope to the point where its shape becomes the tower itself. Governed by its legal envelope and the steel framing needed to withstand the wind loads,this structure is as unique and singular as the parcel it stands on...More
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November 23, Sarajevo
Bosnian Tower Round The Twist
The Balkan's tallest tower, the Avaz Twist Tower, is coming close to completion in Bosnia. Located in Marijin Dvor, Sarajevo's business district which has recently undergone complete renovation, the tower designed by architect Faruk Kapidzic will stand at 172 metres spire and all (142 metres plus 30 metres for the spire)...More
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November 22, Moscow
High-Rises Set to Dot Moscow's Growing Skyline
Moscow authorities plan to build up to 200 high-rise tower blocks of at least 30 storeys in 60 different sites in the capital's outskirts by 2015, Vladimir Resin, the first deputy mayor of Moscow and the head of the city's construction division, said at the opening ceremony of an international investment forum Friday...More
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November 19, Pune
Pune is skyscraper city in the making
With the state government giving its nod for high-rise buildings, Pune is set to join an exclusive club of skyscraper cities. The city, that had till now buildings with a maximum height of 40 metres or 11 floors, will soon get to see building with over 30 floors and rising up to 100 metres...More |
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November 19, Dubai
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's Infinity Tower Wins International Best High Rise
Infinity Tower, designed by the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), won the CNBC International Property Award for the "Best High Rise Architecture" in 2007. The design of Infinity Tower advanced to the International Property Awards program after winning the CNBC Arabian Property Awards in the same category in October...More
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November 14, Dubai
World's first seascraper?
The tower stands like a stylized stem with a light torsion, creating the elegant movement that characterizes the project. The base has the form of a pointed arch with smooth bends, imitating the shape of the waves in the Gulf Sea. The structure is solved with “V” form unions between the different parts in the plan view...More
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November 14
Skyscraper Farms
Today we caught up with Dr. Dickson Despommier, a professor of environmental health at Columbia University, who is arguably the world’s leading proponent of “vertical farming” or, if you will, industrial scale hydroponic and aeroponic crop production within high-rise buildings...More
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November 12, Tyneside
40-storey skyscraper plan revealed
It will be an iconic landmark to rival the world’s tallest hotel in Dubai. A skyscraper of up to 40 storeys could be built at the former home of Newcastle Brown Ale. Tyneside’s highest building is proposed as part of a £500m plan to redevelop the old Tyne Brewery close to Newcastle United football ground...More
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November 9, Moscow
An egg-shaped skyscraper to be built in Moscow
A new egg-shaped skyscraper will soon join the Federation Tower in the district of Moscow International Business Centre located in the central part of the city. The project designed by Georgy Yelin was chosen by the developer Mirax Group. The building is expected to be used primarily as a business centre, though some area may be allotted to apartments...More
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November 8, Kuwait
Kuwait Burj-beater plans get green light
Kuwait has taken another a step closer to trumping Gulf Arab neighbour Dubai in the race to build the world's tallest building after authorities approved initial plans for a colossal new development that includes a tower expected to be over one kilometre high...More
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November 7, Chicago
Next-door condo owners in dispute with Spire developer
The condo owners in the River View complex next to the proposed Spire skyscraper are fighting a plan by Irish developer Garrett Kelleher to build a portion of the tower’s foundation on a narrow strip of land owned by their condominium association...More
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November 7, British Columbia
Surrey high-rise sells out in 30 hours
Condo buyers have set a new speed record in real estate sales in the Lower Mainland by snapping up all 901 units in a Surrey high-rise development in just 30 hours. A record 545 units in the Sky Towers development were sold last Saturday, beating the previous one-day sale record of 536 sold at the Woodward's development in Vancouver...More
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November 2, Seoul
Samsung Consortium Chosen to Build Yongsan Int’l Biz Zone
A consortium led by Samsung Corporation and National Pension Service was selected as a priority bidder for the 28 trillion won ($31 billion) construction of an international business zone in central Seoul, which would include a landmark skyscraper...More
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November 1
UN Partners with UBC to Create Online Guide to Healthy Cities
A senior United Nations official will be at UBC today to announce a partnership that will create the UBC/UN-Habitat Archives, the world’s most complete online repository of best practices for building sustainable cities...More
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