Sept. 25, Abu Dhabi Designed to represent modern commerce and culture in Abu Dhabi, KPF’s ADIA headquarters also echoes its surrounding Islamic architecture. Designed for the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), the 38-storey corporate headquarters is located on the city's heavily landscaped Corniche, which runs along the Persian Gulf waterfront....more

		Sept. 25, Los Angeles Los Angeles developers Jerry Snyder, left, and partner Michael Wise are trying to build Southern California’s first vertical shopping center despite conventional wisdom that such a project would not succeed. The seven-story project by developers Jerry Snyder and Michael Wise would open in 2011 on a Wilshire Boulevard site....more

		Sept. 25, USA It may sound like a pie in the sky idea, but vertical farms containing enough food to feed four million people, could one day divert a potential world food shortage. The huge 'living' skyscrapers have captured the imagination of architects in the U.S and Europe as food prices soar. They are the brainchild of Dickson Despommier, a professor of public health at Columbia University....more

		Sept. 24, Paris Plans showing a pyramid-like tower rising 180 metres above Paris - the first skyscraper to be built inside the French capital in 30 years - have been leaked to the press ahead of Thursday's official unveiling.The 50-storey building has already been dubbed the "Delanoë tower" after Paris' Socialist mayor, Bertrand Delanoë, who has battled to bring towers to the low-rise city....more

		Sept. 23, Milan If one city is the centre of world fashion it would be Italy in Milan. Going some way to reinforcing their dominance over fashion victims everywhere is a new project currently under construction in the Italian city, the World Jewelry Center.The scheme features not only a 78 metre tall tower that rises to 18 storeys with a curving glass and stone façade, but also a series of associated lower-rise buildings that will create a self contained campus...more

		Sept. 23, Chicago Donald Trump will be in Chicago Wednesday for the ceremonial "topping off" of his 92-story riverfront skyscraper, but for my money, the real drama will come next month when a helicopter lifts the tower's ornamental spire into place. The action in the sky is set to occur on Saturday, October 25, and Sunday, October 26--weather permitting, of course....more

		Sept. 23, Paris As part of the recently launched campaign “renouveau de la Défense,” the Group Gererali have unveiled a new office tower designed by Valode & Pistre Architects. Sustainability is at the heart of the architectural concept; the building’s innovative structure and envelope, as well as the choice of its technical and mechanical equipments - opening windows, suspended gardens at all levels - will enhance the user’s comfort whilst reducing energy consumption....more

		Sept. 23 September 23 this year marks an unfortunate milestone: the day humanity will have used all the resources nature will generate this year, according to Global Footprint Network data. Earth Overshoot Day marks the day when humanity beings living beyond its ecological means. Beyond that day, we move into the ecological equivalent of deficit spending, utilizing resources at a rate faster than what the planet can regenerate in a calendar year....more

		Sept. 22, Abu Dhabi Dar Al Dhabi Al-Sharq Towers are two 35 storey residential towers located on Al Reem Island, Abu Dhabi. Designed by KEO International Consultants for Dar Al Dhabi Real Estate the design solution integrates over 800 apartment units within two L-shape forms around a central courtyard. A distinct copper clad mashrabiya creates a screen to disguise the various apartment units and balconies within the buildings,...more

		Sept. 22, London A planning application has been filed for yet another development on the Isle of Dogs in London's ever growing Docklands. The proposals this time are by the Angel Group for Angel House which is at 225 Marsh Wall and importantly marks the first development of a tall building on the eastern half of the Isle of Dogs north of the Docklands Light Railway, an area so far devoid of tall buildings....more

		Sept. 22, Paris Work is continuing apace on one of the most compelling skyscraper projects in Paris's La Defense district, Tour Axa. The designs feature a complete overhaul of the previous Axa tower in favour of a modern version designed by KPF that will have its height raised, new cladding and more. The old Tour Axa was 159m in height, something that shall be substantially boosted as the replacement building will be 225.1m to roof and 240m to the tip of the pinnacle....more

		Sept. 22, New York Here's the first look at designs for a spectacular new boulevard and park planned for Manhattan's far West Side, where Mayor Bloomberg wants to build a new business district more than twice the size of the WTC complex. From fanciful images of hills, trails and plantings to a park filled with enormous evergreen trees and rock outcrops, the proposals from 5 teams of architects vying to design the park and boulevard will soon go before the public....more

		Sept. 19, San Jose Downtown San Jose is ushering in a new era, luxury high-rise living. The challenge is as the San Jose skyline changes, will urban living rise above the housing crisis?...more

		Sept. 19, Benidorm Planning a sunny holiday, perhaps in Spain? Think that strips of high-rise hotels are an eyesore and an environmental crime? They may not be as bad as you think. According to a study in Spain, concentrated tourist towns can make more efficient use of local water resources than the more discreet villas. David Sauri of the University of Alicante and colleagues made a case study of Benidorm and its surroundings on the Alicante coast. Benidorm is one of the biggest tourist centres in Southern Europe...more

		Sept. 19, Ljubljana Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia could finally have its greatest urban planning disaster remedied if plans by HOK International and Murphy Jahn to overhaul a key site in the city go ahead. Presently Ljubljana has its very centre sliced in half by railway tracks that have divided the city in two for over a century with little permeability for traffic or pedestrians...more

		Sept. 19, The Nation It may seem like a tall order, but a Dubai developer is considering building a tower three times the height of the Burj Dubai. Alastair Collins, of the international CTBUH, said that height was the easy part with skyscrapers. “The hardest part is the servicing of the height: the transportation, power, water and waste disposal,” he said...more

		Sept. 19, Seattle ZGF’s Fourth and Madison Tower in Seattle is on pace today to meet the 2030 Challenge, even though it was designed before this pledge for a carbon neutral built environment existed. The building uses a handful of material, systems, and site orientation features to reduce its fossil fuel emissions by half...more

		Sept. 19, Shanghai The 200,000 sq m project will be a ten minute walk from the western edge of the Expo 2010 site and encompasses a varied program within a triptych of towers emerging from a pedestrian-scaled podium. The towers share a common form and serrated plan yet are individually distinguishable through variations in the area requirements of each tower's floor-plate, cladding choices and height...more

		Sept. 19, Brisbane Investors have swooped on a new mixed-use CBD skyscraper development and snapped up more than 70 hotel suites in less than a week, resulting in a $50 million sales success. Standing at 265m and boasting residential, hotel and office space, the Trilogy Tower project on Queen Street will be one the city's tallest buildings when complete. More than 30 per cent of the hotel component has sold since last weekend, generating at least $50 million...more

		Sept. 18, New York Today Columbus Circle pulses with life--pedestrian life, not just the roar of traffic. Laurie Olin, the Philadelphia landscape architect, has brilliantly redesigned the center of the circle, surrounding the Columbus statue with a circular mound and, inside it, an inner circle of gushing fountains that wash out the traffic racket. Recently-completed buildings around the circle, like Skidmore, Owings & Merrill's twin-towered Time-Warner Center, help make the space come alive...more

		Sept. 18, Tianjin Compared to towers of a similar height elsewhere in the world it has begun with a whimper, not a bang, but that doesn't stop the China 117 Tower in Tianjin from vying for the title as one of the tallest buildings in the world. Largely office in use, it will soar to over 600 metres when the tips of the fins are counted with 117 storeys of space in it above ground...more

		Sept. 18, Cork A new €150 million luxury apartment complex in Cork incorporating Ireland’s tallest building was welcomed by Cork city manager Joe Gavin as a landmark development which pointed the way for future projects in the city. The Elysian tower includes a 17-storey tower which, at 71 metres, is Ireland’s tallest building, extending six metres higher than Cork County Hall (65m) and 13 metres higher than Liberty Hall in Dublin (58m)...more

		Sept. 18, Reading Proposals to transform Reading town centre into a modern metropolis full of landmark skyscrapers may experience delays after an influential Government body criticised the plans. English Heritage (EH) said it had “significant reservations” about the size and prominence of the tall buildings proposed in the council’s Central Area Action Plan (CAAP), which it believes could ruin the character of the town...more

		Sept. 18, Seoul Policymakers have all but approved a controversial plan by Lotte Group to build a 112-story building in southeastern Seoul, despite concerns that the trophy skyscraper would be too close to a military airbase. The decision was made after a meeting between ministers and business leaders in Cheong Wa Dae Thursday and rewards 14 years of persistence by Lotte chairman Shin Kyuk-ho...more

		Sept. 18, Paris Christian de Portzamparc commenced the design for this 180m tall office block in 2001. Designed for Groupe Société Générale it now accompanies the Société Générale twin towers to provide extra breathing space for the expanding offices. Forming the head of this triangle of towers the Granite Tower (Tour Granite) covers 70,000 sq m and forms a prismatic shape to make best use of the footprint space. ...more

		Sept. 17, Brisbane The project, includes a 30-storey residential complex, a 10-storey office tower, a motel with 127 rooms, a tavern, retail and commercial space. Called “Union @ Milton”, it will be built over the Milton train station in the block of land running between Milton Road and Railway Terrace, The massive skyscraper does not fit in with the guidelines set down by the Milton local plan which shows the area should support low-rise office accommodation...more

		Sept. 17, New York Sidewalks and traffic around the new Bank of America Tower, diagonally across from Bryant Park, were closed after glass fell from the 50th floor of the skyscraper.It appeared that no one was injured, although emergency medical workers treated a person who apparently suffered a seizure at the scene. It was not clear if the seizure was related to the falling glass; the man was not struck by the glass...more

		Sept. 17, Hong Kong The Hong Kong based firm’s project is an 18-storey institutional building for the Hong Kong Polytechnic University- Hong Kong Community College. The form composes of various teaching blocks stacked spirally in the air, which are separated with sky gardens at different levels. The various blocks have different degrees of opacity...more

		Sept. 17, New York Plans for a residential tower by Skidmore Owings and Merrill to sit on the corner of East 57th and 2nd Street in New York could finally be going ahead. The plans will see a 59 storey building with 300 new apartments and 20,000 square metres of retail space on the lower levels developed by the World Wide Group who have negotiated a 75 year lease for the city from the city authorities...more

		Sept. 17, Dubai More than 60 percent of respondents to an Arabian Business poll have admitted they feel uncomfortable working in high-rise towers - following the recent earthquake tremors in the region. Of those, 15 percent said they were desperately trying to negotiate a move to an office nearer the ground floor after being caught up in the tremors that shook the UAE last week....more

		Sept. 16, San Francisco The murky fate of San Francisco's would-be greenest building shows that when it comes to issues like climate change, political leaders are willing to go only so far. At least that's the case with the headquarters the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission was all set to build in Civic Center - one short block from City Hall - a 12-story billboard of sustainable design with such innovative features as wind turbines on the roof and photovoltaic panels embedded in portions of the facade...more

		Sept. 15, Chicago With next year's 100th anniversary of the legendary Burnham Plan that changed the face of Chicago, the city and its suburbs are poised at what some predict will be a new era in planning for how we live, where we live and how we get from one place to another. The just-minted Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning is beginning to draft a comprehensive blueprint for the future of the seven counties that include Chicago and nearly 300 other municipalities....more

		Sept. 15, Almere After realizing a new city centre Almere now is building a new urban neighbourhood “Olympiakwartier”, at its Western border close to Amsterdam. MVRDV will design a series of different elements that will be used to compose nine dense urban blocks. The elements aim to achieve great variety in design and function and will be accompanied by a series of ‘specials’ that will be designed by Dutch and international offices....more

		Sept. 15, Beijing The city of tomorrow takes to the skies in an incredible new concept from Beijing-based MAD Architects. Although its spires may look menacing, the aptly named Superstar is a completely self-sustaining city that is capable of producing all of its own power and food while recycling all of its waste. Conceived as a future-forward update to the contemporary Chinatown, the Superstar will travel the globe, supplying its host cities with energy, commerce, and cultural activities.....more

		Sept. 15, Suzhou A massive redevelopment of Suzhou's central business district will add fresh appeal to the city with the highlight of it, a new gateway building designed by RMJM called the Gate of the Orient. Working as the entrance building, it will rise to 301.8 metres and will stand above the central axis of the newly planned district that includes six other supertall buildings including two of 400 metres....more

		Sept. 14, New York Normally New York frowns on building shapes that do anything more daring than go up and down or side to side. Sure, we have a venerable corkscrew in the Guggenheim, but we don’t have much truck with blobs, birds’ nests, leaning towers, or glass pretzels. A pair of soon-to-be-built condos nudge at that resistance to foreign forms, though, and suggest that even a weakened housing market still has some architectural kick.....more

		Sept. 12, Vietnam Construction sector officials recommend that a special team be established to examine the construction quality of high-rise resettlement buildings. The team will be charged with assessing potential problems in building construction, according to the proposal of vice chairman of the Viet Nam Construction Association Ngo Sy Liem. The proposal aims to respond to concerns that many new buildings suffer from degradation soon after construction.....more

		Sept. 12, Cape Town Cape Town has given the go-ahead for a new addition to the city's skyline – a R1,2-billion,150-m-tall mixed use development, which, once completed, will hold the accolade of being of the city's tallest building. Old Mutual Investment Group Property Investments' (OMIGPI's) Portside development will comprise 24 office floors  above a 10-storey hotel  and retail  component, with parking on five basement and eight above-ground levels.....more

		Sept. 12, London The long running legal battle over who should be allowed to build what on the Croydon Gateway site has finally drawn to a close with the local council having dumped their favoured developer, Arrowcroft. Two rival consortiums, one of Stanhope and Schroders and the other of Arrowcroft and Croydon Council both wanted to develop the site according to their own ideas....more

		Sept. 12, Istanbul The Turkish city of Istanbul has been making quite a name for itself rivaling London and Moscow on the construction front for skyscrapers in numerical terms whilst the designs of many of the projects are distinctive. This looks like a trend set to continue with yet another tall building rising in the city. It's called the Skyport Residence and once finished will rise to 120 metres in height....more

		Sept. 11, New York The collapse of the World Trade Center was the worst building disaster in recorded history, killing about 2,800 people. Significantly, more than 350 fire and emergency responders were among those who perished. For design professionals, building owners, insurers, emergency-response agencies, and elected and public officials, these statistics have prompted widespread examination of safety, security, and operational procedures to mitigate future risk....more

		Sept. 11, Mumbai Architect Prem Nath is in the process of creating an architectural first for Mumbai – more than 65 floors high, the Skydham residential building in midtown Mumbai at Wadala offers luxurious sustainable sky-living. Prem Nath says: “As an architect, I want to create worthy but simple, futuristic living environs with a humane touch.”....more

		Sept. 11, New York Governor David Paterson vowed that a memorial to the events of September 11, 2001 must open before other planned commercial development at the World Trade Center complex. Which left architect Craig Dykers of Snøhetta with a delicate task: create a beacon, located between three proposed towers and the memorial itself, that commemorates a tragedy while tying together an obstacle course of a site—all in a 47,500-sq ft three-story building....more

		Sept. 11, New York One York Tribeca is a new luxury residential building designed by Mexican Architect, Enrique Norten of TEN Arquitectos. The building, which is nearing completion and will house 32 condominiums, sits at the gateway to Tribeca, New York’s most coveted residential neighborhood....more

		Sept. 11, China Now, as growth in Europe and America grinds to a halt, China may be facing its first Western-style economic slowdown. 'For China read UK', says Philip Bintliff from West Yorkshire-based Studio BAAD, who has worked in China for many years. 'Our Chinese colleagues confirm that they are beset with similar problems, with residential values down 15 per cent in Beijing and Shanghai since the Olympics.....more

		Sept. 11, Dubai A leading structural engineer in Dubai believes it is time the UAE updated the safety regulations governing the seismic design of buildings following the earthquake tremors felt in the country. But Alaa Sahawneh, design director for Dubai Civil Engineering, said on Thursday there was a low risk of major structural damage or collapse of tall buildings caused by earthquakes in the UAE....more

		Sept. 11, New York Rem Koolhaas today unveiled plans for OMA’s first residential high-rise in New York City. The 107m-tall building, on 23 East 22nd Street in the Flatiron District just off Madison Square, will include 18 residences within 24 residential floors, along with a screening room for the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), a main lobby, pool and gym, all of which have been designed by OMA....more

		Sept. 11, Grand Rapids It's difficult to think of an occupation where getting high on the job is acceptable, much less a requirement. But that is the case for employees of Grand Rapids-based Award Window Cleaning Services, Inc. — strictly in the literal sense, of course. Mark S. Reinhart, Award founder and sales manager, watches his book of business grow with each addition to the Grand Rapids skyline...more

		Sept. 11, Cork The Atlantic Quarter is a new urban development for the Irish city of Cork with a trio of landmark towers designed by Foster and Partners. The massive scheme worth some 850 million euros is being developed by Howard Holdings Plc as one of the largest urban regeneration proposals in the Republic of Ireland. Foster and Partners three towers will contain some 350 apartments between them with the tallest reaching 28 floors....more

		Sept. 10, Chicago Before you go up, you go down. An aerial picture by Tribune photographer Zbigniew Bzdak reveals construction progress on the 2.2-acre site of the planned 2,000-foot Chicago Spire condominium tower, designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava and located just north of the Chicago River....more

		Sept. 10, Namibia A new breed of solar tower may soon be sprouting up in Namibia, providing the nation with a carbon-free source of electricity and food during the day and night. At one and a half kilometers tall and 280 meters wide, these massive solar updraft towers could potentially produce 400MW of energy each - enough to power Windhoek, the nation’s capital....more

		Sept. 10, Dublin Architect Ulrik Raysse, leading designer ofHenning Larsen, told a rapt audience on the opening day of an oral hearing on 127 appeals both for and against the scheme that what he had produced was not a master plan, but rather "one design" in which each element related to the other. The 37-storey triple-skin apartment tower, which he described as "the spice in the dish", was intended to relate to the city scale, providing a landmark for "the new Ballsbridge".....more

		Sept. 10, New Jersey Plans are underway for the development of Liberty Plaza, Newark, N.J.’s first Class A office and mixed-use project in 15 years, which will feature a 430,000-square-foot, 22-story office and retail tower in Phase I. Located on 3.5 acres adjacent to the New Jersey Transit Broad Street Rail Station, the project (pictured) is expected to cost at least $150 million.....more

		Sept. 9, Sheffield Sheffield City Council has approved the latest plans by Axis Architects to extend the Velocity Tower on the edge of the city centre that will see the previous planned tower become two. Designed for the developer which the tower takes its name after, the latest version features a 30 storey element instead of the existing almost completed 22 storey edition which will now be extended up with another 8 floors on top with work able to begin almost immediately....more

		Sept. 9, Mumbai The old buildings and chawls in Mumbai may soon give way to skyscraperS after a Supreme Court order allowed redevelopment of all cessed buildings in the island city and chawl residents are happy with the order that grants increased floor space index....more

		Sept. 9, UK New research involving face-to-face interviews with survivors of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Centre (WTC) will help save lives in the future. Researchers from the Universities of Greenwich, Ulster and Liverpool have completed a three and a half year study into the evacuation of the twin towers. Interviews with 271 survivors generated 6,000 pages of first hand accounts of what it was like as they tried to leave the buildings....more

		Sept. 9, UK Skyscrapers bring dramatic economic benefits which should be considered alongside aesthetic and heritage considerations in making planning decisions, a new report from the British Property Federation recommends. The 44-page report, carried out by planning consultant Colin Buchanan & Partners on behalf of the BPF, argues that tall buildings reap significant productivity gains...more

		Sept. 8, Abu Dhabi Tenants of a downtown high-rise building here claim landlords are putting their lives at risk in an attempt to maximise profits. Sultan and Suhail Mohammad Ahmad Khalaf Al Otaiba sought to transform their 17-storey building on Hamdan Street into an office tower, tenants said. "Temptation of multifold profit prompted the landlords to tamper with the concrete structure, which may lead to the collapse of the 20-year-old building," said Abdullah Junaid, a civil engineer residing in the building....more

		Sept. 8, Mumbai In a boomtown starved for room to grow, Dharavi occupies a prime location at the junction of two commuter rail lines close to the heart of the city. One of Mumbai's swankiest new business parks, the Bandra-Kurla Complex, a diorama of concrete and glass that shimmers in the tropical heat. Because of their location, Dharavi's residents have been locked for years in a tug of war with government officials who look hungrily at such choice land....more

		Sept. 7, Washington A federal agency has joined some of the nation’s biggest landlords in trying to repeal stronger safety requirements for new skyscrapers that were added to the country’s most widely used building code last year, arguing that they would be too expensive to meet.The General Services Administration, which serves as the federal government’s property manager, is now opposing the tougher standards, even though they were based on a report by NIST....more

		Sept. 7, New York Our city is molting. Bricks flake away. So do brittle fire escapes, terra-cotta encrustations, old paint, cracked stoops, faded awnings, sash windows, and stone laurels fashioned a century ago by Sicilian carvers. New York is shucking off its aging walk-ups, its small and mildewed structures, its drafty warehouses, cramped stores, and idle factories. In their place, the city is sprouting a hard, glistening new shell of glass and steel. Bright, seamless towers....more

		Sept. 6, Istanbul Building projects that have been burgeoning over the last four years have dramatically altered Istanbul's silhouette, creating a race over which company will construct the city's highest building. İşbank's 181-meter İş Tower in Levent, which has been the highest building in the city for eight years, will soon lose its place to Kiler Group's 64-story and 261-meter Sapphire project, under construction in the same district....more

		Sept. 5, Chicago This fall shapes up as a crucial test for architects George Pappageorge and David Haymes, partners in the mid-sized Chicago firm of Pappageorge/Haymes. Their expansion into high-rises over the last ten 10 years, exemplified by the clunky classicism of the Museum Park Towers 1, 2 and 3 across Lake Shore Drive from the Field Museum, reveals how difficult it can be for architects to retain their original aesthetic spark as they move to large-scale work....more

		Sept. 5, Sandy Plans for the high-rising Proscenium, a $560 million mixed-use development planned in Sandy, cleared more hurdles this week.The Sandy City Council formally approved a new arts-and-culture zone in Sandy's central business district. The project's first phase includes a 2,700-seat, Broadway-style theater and a 40-story tower, roughly 550 feet tall, that would house a hotel, condos and offices....more

		Sept. 5, London Consultation is now well under way on what could be two of the most distinctive tall buildings in London, Oracle Residential's redevelopment of Putney Place. The 84 and 68 metre tall towers are designed by SMC Alsop, to stand opposite East Putney underground station in the London borough of Wandsworth.As one would expect from Alsop, the designs are bright, cheerful, and definitely stand out compared to the suburban moderation around them....more

		Sept. 5, Dubai Dubai City Tower consists of 400 habitable storeys topped by a 400m tall energy producing spire. Each floor to floor height is 5m making the overall height of the building 2400m (1.5miles). The overall mass of the building is broken down into 6 independent buildings - 3 rotating clockwise and 3 counter clockwise about a central core...more

		Sept. 5, Tirana The city of Tirana and an international jury announced MVRDV winner of the competition for the urban masterplan creating a new dense urban neighborhood with a park and public facilities at the shore of Tirana Lake, in the south of the Albanian capital. MVRDV won the competition over Bolles + Wilson, David Chipperfield Architects and Carlos Ferrater among others....more

		Sept. 5, Toronto For years, the glass condominium tower has been the architectural epitome of urban chic. But the glass condo tower's day in the sun may be passing. One challenge comes from the growing cohort of "green"-conscious home buyers, put off by the energy inefficiency of all-glass buildings. Another comes from developers and architects bored by abstract glass boxes and eager to invent new forms that respond more vividly to actual sites and urban conditions....more

		Sept. 5, Paris Couer d'Issy is a 149 metre tall tower, just 100cm short of skyscraper status, that is proposed for Issy, a suburb just south of the centre of Paris. The scheme is part of a major project of rebuilding the area with a new landscaped park over 200 metres long, a 33,000 square metre commercial centre and an auditorium of 1,000 seats....more

		Sept. 4, Paris The first tall buildings built or years outside of the Commune of Paris and La Defense are now beginning construction. Called the Levallois Twins, the design by architects Sylvain Glaiman and Pierre Epstein stars two curving 38 storey 164 metre tall towers set above a circular podium with their concaved fronts looking into the centre of the plot. Sterile white lines and contrasting glazing add to the cleanness of the look....more

		Sept. 4, New York Spider-Man beware! Climbing, hanging, jumping or swinging on or from Gotham's skyscrapers is going to be hazardous to your freedom. Taking aim at would-be stunt idiots who want to make jungle gyms of the city's high-rise structures, the City Council is set to pass a bill today making such acts, or attempts, a criminal A-misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail and a $1,000 fine...more

		Sept. 4, UK The Royal Institute of British Architects special awards honour the best buildings with specific emphasis on: sustainability, conservation; exemplary school design; public spaces and smaller, exceptional projects built on limited budgets. Each award includes a prize of £5,000 to be presented to the winning team. The shortlist was drawn from the 92 RIBA Award winning buildings announced earlier this year. ...more

		Sept. 4, London A joint venture between three developers in London's Docklands could see one of the tallest residential skyscrapers ever proposed for London. Located off just south of Canary Wharf off Marsh Wall around 3 Millharbour, the trio of developers Ballymore, Oracle & Galliard are hoping to get a scheme through the planning process so large it will completely rip up the original Millennium Quarter Masterplan that was drafted by Tower Hamlets council....more

		Sept. 4, New York A worker fell about 48 stories to his death today at a midtown Manhattan skyscraper being built by the developer of the World Trade Center, authorities said.The accident happened at 600 W. 42nd St., where a trade center developer, Larry Silverstein, is building two 60-story apartment buildings. Construction began last fall on the development, called Silver Towers at River Place....more

		Sept. 3, The Structural Design of Tall & Special Buildings The CTBUH would like to congratulate Past Chairman Ron Klemencic for being selected as Structural Engineer of the Year 2007. Ron, President of Magnusson Klemencic Associates, received the accolade in recognition for both his career contributions and his major impact on building design...more

		Sept. 3, Prague In the latest hit to the long-troubled City Project in Prague 4, the UNESCO Committee for World Heritage plans to suggest that the height of two of the development’s high-rise buildings be scaled down from the original designs.  In development since 2001, the City Project has long been opposed by local civic organizations who feel its modern appearance will detract from the city’s historical character....more

		Sept. 3, New York At 52 stories high, the number 7 World Trade Center building stands tall on the New York skyline. The idea that such a huge skyscraper could disappear from view would seem to belong to the realm of high-tech magic tricks. But that is exactly what happens when the light falls at a certain angle across its shiny, metal exterior - as shown by this amazing picture taken last week...more

		Sept. 3, Chicago The new owner of the Inland Steel Building plans a $40-million overhaul of the modernist Loop landmark.Ten months after paying $57.3 million for the 19-story tower an investment group including New York-based Capital Properties LLC and celebrity architect Frank Gehry has asked two city panels to sign off on the renovation plan for the glass-and-steel structure, considered a pioneering architectural feat when it was completed in 1958....more

		Sept. 3, Leeds Allies and Morrison, and not careyjones, will take forward the redevelopment of the soon-to-be-demolished Leeds International Pool site. On 2 September Leeds City Council approved revised plans submitted by HBG Properties as part of the sale agreement for the authority-owned city-centre site, which currently houses John Poulson's now-empty 1960s swimming baths....more

		Sept. 2, Sao Paulo The city government of Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city and commercial capital, is considering legislation that would reduce its carbon emissions by 30% in the next four years. If approved, the project will involve changes in transportation and waste management. Pushed by that announcement, the State government of Sao Paulo has marked its calendar in 2020, with an ambition to reduce at least 20% emissions by then....more

		Sept. 2, Glasgow Aedas has drawn up what is the largest mixed used building ever proposed for the Scottish city of Glasgow with the filing of a planning application with the local council. Located on the Albany Hotel site on Bothwell Street in the very commercial heart of the city, the project replaces previous plans by SMC Jenkins and Marr for a twin building development, one of which would be largely offices with the other hotel....more

		Sept. 1, New York One Madison Park is a new ground-up 50-storey luxury condominium building currently under construction in the Flatiron district of New York City. Designed by New York architect Cetra/Ruddy, the building, which is one the skinniest skyscrapers in the city, is clad with a glass and aluminum curtain wall with several types of glass accentuating the building forms...more .

		Sept. 1, Kuwait London firm Make are rapidly acquiring a reputation for a mixture of the inventive and outlandish in architecture, which rather than just existing on paper is actually being realised. They have a Borg-like Cube going up in Birmingham but Khabary Future City in Kuwait could soon become their freshest project to become a recognisable piece of architecture....more .