Jan 29, Cape Canaveral

Human exploration of the stars is set to further expand with the construction of a massive new launch pad being built at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral. The huge 119 meter tall structure has been designed to work primarily as a mobile launching platform for the new Ares rocket although it will also be able to support future rocket systems too...more

Jan 29, New York

The thin, glassy slab of the United Nations Secretariat and the draping stone form of the General Assembly have been a serene presence along Manhattan’s East River for almost 60 years. January 2009, the last of about 5,500 personnel are moving temporarily to make way for a long-delayed $1.9 billion program of updating and restoration...more

Jan 28, China

New figures show that property sales in China jumped 75 percent in 2009 as record levels of bank loans boosted purchases. Property prices rose by the fastest pace in 18 months in December, adding to fears of a real estate bubble. China has been trying to rein in speculation...more

Jan 28, Sofia, Bulgaria

The construction of a new business center described as the first Bulgarian skyscraper started in Sofia with a ground-breaking ceremony attended by Regional Development Minister Rosen Plevneliev. The project for “Captain Ford” Business Center is a joint work of the UK design studio Atkins and of their Bulgarian colleagues from A&A Architects...more

Jan 28, New York

The Burj Khalifa in Dubai, at 160 stories and 2,717 feet high, makes the 102-story Empire State Building into a pipsqueak, and indeed the urge to build the tallest structure in the world is an infectious one. Within that aspirational tradition John A. Larkin bears the mantle of two attempts...more

Jan 28, Oklahoma City

Sandridge, one of the largest independent producers in Oklahoma City, unveiled an over $100 million expansion of its downtown headquarters across three city blocks. The plans include a renovated 1960s tower by architect Pietro Belluschi, a restored Braniff Buildingand a public park recycled from a pair of windswept plazas...more

Jan 28, Ukraine

Ukrainian architectural firm 2b2 published their project the 'Ark' their architectural interpretation of Noah's ark. The complex includes the hotel interсontinental standing at 101m in height consists of 28 floors; with president suites standard rooms and numerous restaurants and bars...more

Jan 27, Makati, Philippines

The 68-floor Discovery Primea will stand on the former Gilarmi Apartments along Ayala Avenue. On the premise that many of its eventual population would be of mature age, it would include hospital facilities and services provided by Asian Hospital. There will be 90 units ranging from 383 to 680 square meters...more

Jan 26, Freiburg

A new project in Freiburg's Weingarten district is making apartment living more energy-efficient. Freiburg's municipal housing association, which owns the high-rises, developed a simple plan to recoup a portion of the renovation costs. The building's 100 large apartments are being subdivided into 139 smaller, two- to three-room units...more

Jan 26, Charlotte

Despite a still sluggish real estate market, The Vue Charlotte is now set to open September 1st, 2010. The building is about 50 percent sold, but the developer says he is not lowering the prices. "It's a high-end luxury building and it looks like it's going to be the only one built in a long time," Mclean said from the project's uptown sales center...more

Jan 26, Seattle

MulvannyG2 Architecture, in venture with Gluckman Mayner Architects, has completed a new hotel and residential high-rise tower in the Denny Triangle area of Downtown Seattle. The 39-storey project, developed by the R.C. Hedreen Company, includes luxury one-and two-bedroom residential units, as well as penthouses, atop a full-service Hyatt Hotel...more

Jan 26, Santa Ana

A developer who wants to build the biggest skyscraper in Orange County history has approached county officials about moving some government offices into his proposed tower. That kind of lease would help clear the way for developer Michael Harrah to break ground on his 37-story tower, called One Broadway Plaza...more

Jan 26, Shanghai

Beijing burnished its international reputation with a handful of acclaimed icons built for the Olympics. But Shanghai is still the Chinese city that appeals most to foreigners, thanks to its checkered past, colonial architecture and mercantile drive—qualities that don't need translating for most Westerners...more

Jan 26, Chicago

Aqua—a eighty-two-story apartment tower in the center of Chicago—is made of the same tough, brawny materials as most skyscrapers: metal, concrete, and lots of glass. But the architect, Jeanne Gang, a forty-five-year-old Chicagoan, has figured out a way to give it soft, silky lines, like draped fabric...more

Jan 26, Sichuan Province

Chengdu Master Plan by SOM - Skidmore, Owing & Merril - transforms the site of a former steel pipe factory into a sustainable, mixed-use community in southwestern China’s Sichuan province. The plan creates walkable, high-density neighborhoods along the Ha river and the city’s main corridor, Dong Da Road...more

Jan 26, Sydney

The future of Australian city living is in a high or medium-rise apartment block, with much less space, almost no private gardens, and a much lower ceiling than the home you grew up in. On Sydney's upper North Shore, houses keep making way for unit blocks...more

Jan 26, Enfield, UK

Olympic 2012 masterplanner AECOM has been named on a seven-strong shortlist vying to design an enormous 5,000-home development in Enfield. Enfield Council has also named Arup and Broadway Malyan among the finalists in the running to mastermind the huge Meridian Water scheme...more

Jan 25, Denver

Behringer Harvard announced its acquisition of 4550 Cherry Creek, a 24-story high-rise multifamily community providing 288 apartment homes at 4550 Cherry Creek South Drive in Denver, Colorado. The community is located midway between the metro's two largest employment centers...more

Jan 25, Milan

One of the key developments under construction in the Italian city of Milan is Porta Nuova Garibaldi, a new commercial complex that's been designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. With 35 floors and a height of 145 meters to the roof, the building features a spire burj-like in nature that will push it to 215 meters at its tip...more

Jan 25, Moscow

The Russian capital of Moscow is undergoing an architectural renaissance in that the city is transitioning from its current era of design to a more modern and international one. In the midst of this transition is Mercury City Tower. Under construction in Moscow, this skyscraper is being designed by some of the world's greatest architects...more

Jan 24, San Francisco

When you think of San Francisco, most people think of the Golden Gate Bridge, Coit Tower and the Transamerica Pyramid. But while many San Franciscans cannot now imagine their city without the 853-foot-tall building, that hasn't always been the case...more

Jan 24, Shanghai

Shanghai's skyscraper-saturated landscape can seem surreal. Standing like immense giants in an alien planet, the skyscrapers are one indication of the city's huge transformations in the recent past as well its orientation to the future. This article looks at the inspiration and symbolism behind some of these eye-catching buildings...more

Jan 22, Cixi Town, China

The foundation stone has been laid for an unusual looking new building designed by Skidmore Owings and Merrill. Intended to be the Crowne Plaza Hotel with serviced apartments and a five star hotel, the scheme will stand on the busy intersection of 3 North Street and Park Avenue in Cixi Town...more

Jan 22

Once bare-bones and utilitarian, architectural animation is becoming more nuanced and experiential. In part, this development can be credited to advances in 3-D technology, but at the same time architects have embraced the art of filmmaking -- not only to create more interactive presentations for clients, but also to leverage as a tool in the design process...more

Jan 22, Norway

Norway is considered to have the best conditions in the world for utilizing offshore wind power. The coastline of Stavanger, Norway is the longest and windiest in Europe and is largely unsaturated with turbines. The oil industry has given the country expertise in offshore foundations as well as investment capital to pursue this...more

Jan 22, Zhengzhou

Pagodas have long been a staple of Chinese architecture over the millennia, and now Skidmore Owings and Merrill look like adding further to this tradition with their winning entry to design a skyscraper in Zhengzhou. Pagodas are essentially towers with multiple tiers, each one marked out by eaves...more

Jan 22, Vancouver

City council is considering whether four new towers should be allowed in the city's protected downtown view corridors. It's also considering whether taller buildings should be allowed near Main and Hastings and in Chinatown. At a council meeting, city staff proposed allowing taller buildings that "demonstrate architectural excellence"...more

Jan 21, Mumbai

India is witnessing a gradual shift in its economy. What was earlier an agricultural economy is today being transformed into an urban economy, with almost 60% of country’s GDP coming from the urban areas. Maharashtra has the highest share in the urban development of the country...more

Jan 21

The Burj Khalifa in Dubai climbed higher than any other previous structure ever built. But architects won't rest there. Here are eight building plans trying to capture the title as the next tallest tower. Top 8 Skyscrapers that will push the limits of design: Burj Mubarak al Kabir,  One Dubai, Miapolis, Nakheel Tower...more

Jan 21, London

A 36-storey tower by Allies & Morrison, part of the Olympic boom at Stratford, has been granted planning consent. The London Thames Gateway Development Corporation has approved the £130 million Broadway Chambers scheme, which is sited between Stratford town center and the Olympic Park...more

Jan 21, Phoenix

More news from Arizona's troubled condo real estate market. One of Phoenix's tallest towers, 44 Monroe is seeing many of its condos head for foreclosure. The project was completed in 2008 but struggled to sell the units. Of a total of 196 units, 182 are unsold...more

Jan 21, Beijing

Zaha Hadid has won an international competition for the development of a new skyscraper in the Chinese capital of Beijing beating off some heavy competition from two leading finalists. The 200 metre plus Wangjing Business Area Project had solicited a number of entries, most notably from the Massimiliano Fukas Studio...more

Jan 21, Shoreditch

A 51-storey skyscraper that was given the green light will “cast a shadow over  Shoreditch” according to local campaigners. Bishops Place, comprising a hotel, offices, leisure facilities and flats will be built in a Shoreditch conservation site across 4.7 hectares. The £500 million scheme was approved by Hackney Council’s planning committee in November 2009...more

Jan 20, Shanghai

Although the projects to get the press coverage in Chinese cities tend to be supertall or approaching that, places like Shanghai have seen an overall boom in towers going far beyond a few large landmark ones. On 1080 East Daming Road is a 120 metre tall tower designed by Heller Manus Architects under construction...more

Jan 19, Dubai

Acclaimed architecture critic and writer Paul Goldberger couldn’t be visiting Dubai at a better time. With the well-toned Burj Khalifa rising tall and proud in the background, he talks about architecture, the sustainability of a skyscraper and of course, 
the Burj Khalifa. "Is this your first time in Dubai?" "Yes, yes. I am still figuring things out."...more

Jan 19, Las Vegas

Helmut Jahn created the eye-grabbing Veer Towers at MGM Mirage's $8.5 billion CityCenter development. The twin condominium buildings lean across one another like a pair of drunken revelers. The 37-story-tall trapezoidal-shaped towers tilt five degrees in opposite directions for a striking visual contrast of angles that seem suspended in time and space...more

Jan 19, Beijing

KCAP Architects & Planners is to complete Olympic development in Beijing with its winning design for the development of a 50 hectares site at the southern edge of the Olympic Park. Sealing the gap between the successful park and the transport nodes to the south, KCAP's masterplan acts as a further legacy from the 2008 Olympics...more

Jan 19, Birmingham

Planned in Birmingham near the two sentinel towers and Holloway Circus on Holloway Head is this development designed by the Archial Group for Panther Securities. The £70 million project is being developed to house not only 303 apartments but also a new three star hotel with 131 bedrooms, conference facilities and casino plus a car showroom and workshop...more

Jan 19, Cincinnati

A downtown Cincinnati skyscraper under construction marked a major milestone.  Crews performed a "Topping Out" ceremony at the Queen City Square. The last beam was lifted to the top of the tower, marking the completion of the buildings skeleton. A tiara, modeled after a crown wore by England's Princess Diana, will go on top of that...more

Jan 19, Chicago

Building big is nothing new. In 1885, the ten storey Home Insurance Building, credited with the invention of the skyscraper, rose from the streets of Chicago. From then on the aspiration to construct tall, taller and tallest has fuelled the minds of architects and developers. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat released the ten tallest buildings completed in 2009...more

Jan 19, Tweed, Gold Coast

Highrises could soon dominate Tweed Heads under a new plan to bring the coastal city in line with its Gold Coast neighbour Coolangatta. The quieter sibling of the twin towns could be revamped as part of a NSW Government draft plan to transform the Tweed Heads CBD into a thriving tourism hub by 2035...more

Jan 19, Toronto

Toronto had feared that the fourth tower of the Pinnacle Centre development had been felled by the recession. Its name, which seems ironic is Success Tower II. Like virtually the entire complement of Toronto's planned mega-skyscrapers, which includes 18,400-metre-plus monoliths under construction, Success II survived the rough winds of the recession...more

Jan 19, Greece

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat announced its support of the “Piraeus Tower 2010 – Changing the Face/Façades Reformation” competition organized by GreekArchitects.gr with co-organizer DuPont Hellas S.A. With this competition GreekArchitects.gr continues its actions and aims for the development and promotion of architecture in Greece...more

Jan 18, US

The majestic steel beams of a soaring office tower beginning to rise from the ruins of the World Trade Center are a tribute to American resilience, but also a marker in the decline of yet another industry. Not an inch of imported glass went into the two lost towers, built 40 years ago. The lower floors of the new one will soon be sheathed in Chinese glass...more

Jan 18, Dallas

Commercial real estate firm Holliday Fenoglio Fowler L.P. confirmed that it has obtained a $65 million refinancing deal for 1700 Pacific, a 49-story office tower in the heart of downtown Dallas. News of the Class A tower’s refinancing comes after it was announced that Elm Place tower in downtown Dallas is closing...more

Jan 18, London

Squire and Partners has replaced SMC Alsop on the development planned for 151 City Road on the northern fringe of the City of London in the Borough of Hackney. The previous tower designed by Alsop, was considered by many as too outrageously designed to realistically get planning permission...more

Jan 16, Portland

Architects and federal officials plan one of the world's most extensive vertical gardens in downtown Portland - what amounts to a series of 250-foot-tall trellises designed to shade the west side of an 18-story office building. The architects' plans call for seven vertical "vegetated fins" to jut at acute angles...more

Jan 16, Doha

DohaLand has sponsored a professorship at Qatar University in an effort to begin teaching students of architecture and urban planning the modern Qatari architectural 'language' that will be employed in the 35-hectare Musheireb project. The design competition for Musheireb saw 100 regional and international firms whittled down to 11 finalists, none of which were Qatari...more

Jan 15, Los Angeles

It's not every day that Los Angeles welcomes a new addition to its skyline. The city did it in style with a gala for the 54-story Ritz-Carlton hotel-condo tower that is the centerpiece of L.A. Live and opens for business in February 2010. The $2.5-billion L.A. Live has been at the center of the effort to develop the area around Staples Center into a sports and entertainment hub....more

Jan 15, Chicago

An investor team that includes two Bridgeport businessmen and a specialist in industrial cleanups is trying its luck with high-rise housing. They have proposed a 33-story building at 519 S. Clinton, just west of the vacant Old Main Post Office. It's a poor market for planning a high-rise, so work won't start anytime soon. But the investors' zoning lawyer, said they wanted to start the approval process anyway...more

Jan 14, Boston

Get ready Boston, someday you might just have this incredible floating city within a city located in your harbor. The BoA, short for Boston Arcology, is a sustainable mega structure designed by Kevin Schopfer, who also designed the New Orleans Arcology Habitat (NOAH). The BoA will house 15,000 people in hotels, offices, retail spaces, museums, condominiums, and even a new city hall...more

Jan 14, Guangzhou

Guangzhou International Finance Center (GZIFC) unveiled its showcase suite. Situated on the 22nd floor the area features three main components. Designed by Australian architecture firm Woods Bagot the office space is decorated primarily with silver, white, black and grey colour tones. Located in the CBD of Pearl River New City in Guangzhou, GZIFC is 432 meters tall...more

Jan 14, Gwacheon, Korea

High-tech products from Korea such as mobile phones, flat screen televisions and semiconductors have gained widespread recognition in the world but modern Korean architecture is relatively less well known. A locally programmed exhibition that toured around Europe to promote Korean architecture has returned to Korea...more

Jan 14, Ethiopia

Dutch firm OIII Architects received a special mention for their proposal in the competition to design the commercial bank of Ethiopia. The city’s pattern of public roads, squares and parks is carried through into the CBE’s design. By connecting five towers to each other around a central atrium, a space is created which continues into the bank’s immediate surroundings...more

Jan 13, Beijing

A top Chaoyang district the government plans to have a 400-m or even taller skyscraper in the upcoming eastward expansion of its central business district (CBD). The new landmark, which will become Beijing's tallest architecture if built, will become a new icon of Beijing's booming role as a global business harbor...more

Jan 13, Hong Kong

Benoy has announced the opening of iSQUARE, a new ‘vertical destination mall’ located in the heart of Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. In collaboration with Rocco Design Limited, Benoy designed the 56,000 sq m concept to integrate high quality retail with entertainment and extensive dining and lifestyle offers across 31 storeys...more

Jan 13, Milan

Plans were unveiled for Daniel Libeskind's Arduino Residential Tower in Milan, Italy. The project is part of the 'Citylife' plan to transform the site of the former Milan fairgrounds into a residential neighborhood which will also includes a children's museum, a convention center and a museum of contemporary art also designed by Libeskind...more

Jan 12, Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur is among the grandest cities of Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Having been initially established in the mid-1850’s, the city has grown to be one of the largest in the world. As a wondrous and attractive setting, Kuala Lumpur has become home to many developments of high intensity, including the mighty Petronas Twin Towers and, The Troika project...more

Jan 12, New York

The renovation of United Nations Headquarters in New York is only $90 million over its $1.876 billion budget compared with $219 million in 2008, with a good chance of returning to the black, while being on schedule for completion by late 2013. When completed, the landmark 39-storey building will possess the 21st-century trappings of eco-friendly energy conservation...more

Jan 12, Glenview

Schirmer Engineering, an Aon Global company, is pleased to announce the successful renewal of its ‘House of Expertise’ licenses in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.  Schirmer Engineering remains the only fire protection engineering firm licensed in both Dubai and Abu Dhabi...more

Jan 11, New York

Rafael Viñoly’s masterplan for a 260,000sq m mixed use scheme in Brooklyn, New York, has taken a step closer to approval with the scheme being submitted up for public review. The New Domino masterplan proposes the creation of 2,200 affordable homes and 1.6ha of public park on a site along the Brooklyn riverfront...more

Jan 11, Shanghai

The China Diamond Exchange Centre, designed by Goettsch Partners (GP), has opened in Shanghai. Commissioned by Shanghai Lujiazui Development Co. Ltd., the 49,750 sq m office building is located on Century Avenue, the main boulevard in Shanghai’s Pudong district, the city’s modern financial and commercial hub...more

Jan 11, Incheon

The new 300-room, five-star-rated Sheraton Incheon Hotel opened in New Songdo City, Korea, offering a new state-of-the-art facility in the heart of a new urban center. The new 25-story hotel is adjacent to the city’s new Convention Center, the Northeast Asia Trade Tower and a large retail mall. HOK provided architectural design, landscape design and sustainable design services for the new 500,000-square-foot, LEED certified hotel...more

Jan 11, Guangzhou

What is being billed as the world's most energy-efficient skyscraper is being built here in the center of one of China's smoggiest cities by state-owned China National Tobacco Co. It is the latest example of a new trend in China's burgeoning commercial-property market: State-owned businesses in industries as disparate as insurance and tobacco are emerging as developers...more

Jan 11, Singapore

The new address for technologies of the future and a futuristic lifestyle – the three towers of the "Fusionopolis" in Singapore. On up to 24 floors and 120,000 square metres, the Japanese architect Dr. Kisho Kurokawa has designed a so-called "layered city". In a vertical orientation, it combines everything that an ordinary city provides for its inhabitants on an extensive sealed surface area...more

Jan 11, Jeddah

Sageifat Al-Safa announced King's Road Tower is in the final phase of its construction. Once completed, Jeddah's tallest tower is expected to be a city landmark - it can be seen from any point in Jeddah and has the world's largest digital advertising screen as some of its more spectacular features. The commercial and residential tower comprises 37 floors...more

Jan 11, London

The tallest building in the Square Mile to open 2010, Nido ("nest" in Spanish or Italian) is the second student block built by the company in the UK. Nido King's Cross opened in 2007, and another is planned in Notting Hill. The 105m-tall building will accommodate 1,204 residents in a number of configurations, ranging from single or double studio units up to six-bedroom "clusters"...more

Jan 11, New York

This project is a USD$180m , 47-storey condominium located one block below Wall Street in lower Manhattan. There are 316 apartments, and a range of resident amenities including a 60-ft indoor lap pool, a gym, squash and basketball courts, a screening room, penthouse events space and terrace, and a public restaurant on the street level...more

Jan 11, Mumbai

The city may grow a little taller as more highrises get the green signal. After increasing the maximum permissible height of buildings in the airport vicinity from 150m to 300m, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has sanctioned the construction of five high-rise projects. The civil aviation ministry and the AAI hiked the maximum permissible height of buildings within 20 km of the Mumbai airport to 300 m in May 2009...more

Jan 11, London

One of the most promising future clusters of tall buildings in London has been emerging in Wandsworth, and this concentration of tall buildings, both proposed and already realised, looks to be added to further if plans by Assael Architecture get the go-ahead. The site stands overlooking the River Wandle with Enterprise Way cutting through it...more

Jan 9, Miami

Miapolis has a catchy name and a flashy new website, but there are more questions than answers about a developer's dream of building the world's tallest building -- a complex that would soar 160 stories on Miami's Watson Island. Plans call for a 3,200-foot-tall building that would eclipse the Burj Khalifa in Dubai as the world's tallest...more

Jan 8

Look up from your cellphone and your pixelated field of vision stretches to the skyline. Electronic signs are everywhere, from billboards to taxis, and now buildings are becoming digital canvasses. Some are festooned with digital signs, some integrate lights and media to define space and add ornamentation, some combine those approaches...more

Jan 8, London

CZWG and Muf Architecture/Art have revealed the first images of their proposed regeneration of a site close to the home of Arsenal football club. The scheme will feature a 25-story mixed-use tower with dramatic views over the Emirates Stadium. With outer corners carved into ‘scallops’, the skyscraper will contain 88 five-bed student apartments...more

Jan 8, Rotterdam

The design of this 8.000-m2-office space and 2.000-m2 customs facilities, maintenance and access buildings utilized the Design and Build method; an efficient and effective building practice without compromise to built results or quality, allowing client and architect to come to a detailed architectural design quickly...more

Jan 8, London

With the filing of the planning application, proposals for a new student tower called Quill which is sited near London Bridge Station in the London borough of Southwark, are finally becoming clearer. The biggest change that has been made to the design has been the reduction in height of the element of the tower that bounds Melior Street by 15 meters...more

Jan 8, Beihai, China

Chinese firm MAD architects have released images of their 2008 'fake hills' project. Their design for a new housing development is located in the coastal city of Beihai, on a long, narrow waterfront site. The concept combines two typologies that most commonly define residential developments in China: high rise towers and long, low rise blocks...more

Jan 8, Seoul

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has designed the new head office building for the Federation of Korean Industries in Seoul, South Korea. AS+GG won an international competition to design the project. At more than 240 metres, the tower will be among the tallest buildings in Korea. Adrian Smith said: “Our hope is that the building will provide...more

Jan 7, Sevilla, Spain

The commission of five experts established by the Ministry of Culture to judge the impact of the planned Torre Pelli tower in Sevilla have decided to approve the project. Designed by César Pelli the 178 meter high tower is being built on the Isla de la Cartuja in Sevilla, and the experts have concluded...more

Jan 7, Vilnius, Lithuania

The site for the Banks building was treated as an integral part of the newly formed center on the right riverbank of Neris, which is being developed on the axis of the old Ukmerges street. At that point meet the Konstitucijos Avenue and the pedestrian street. As a result, this pedestrian street becomes the main axis of the buildings composition...more

Jan 6, Dubai

Hot on the heels of the unveiling of Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, the world’s tallest hotel officially opened. But the operator, Abu Dhabi-based Rotana, says it is the US$180 million (Dh661.1m), 333-metre Rose Rayhaan’s alcohol-free policy that will attract most of its guests...more

Jan 6, Dubai

Blair Kamin’s Blog, Chicago Tribune - "Readers of this blog know that I'd walk through the desert to get a good story for you. But honesty, I never imagined that I really would be walking through something like the desert in search of architecture. Yet it happened as I was trying to get a look at what I call the Swiss Cheese building...more

Jan 6, Belfast, Ireland

The policy, currently in development by the Department of Environment, will look at preventing ‘ad hoc’ decisions on tall buildings by planning officers. Exact details are yet to be announced but Edwin Poots, environment minister, told the Belfast Telegraph: ‘We are comfortable with the principle of tall buildings where they are appropriate’...more

Jan 6, Huaxi Village, China

Huaxi Village in east China's Jiangsu Province, allegedly the richest village in the country, saw its skyscraper rise to 250 meters on January 5th 2010, the Yangtze Evening News reports. The 74-story skyscraper is expected to reach 328 meters upon completion this June. Costing more than 1.5 billion yuan...more

Jan 6, Montreal

Its parliament might have been recently suspended again but Canada is one of the few western countries that has been left relatively unscathed by the global financial crisis. Nowhere is this more clear than in the city of Montreal where the hunger for high-rise living has continued. Altitude Montreal is a 33 floor 120 meter tall residential tower...more

Jan 5, Frankfurt

Construction of the new Germany-based European Central Bank (ECB) will start in the spring of 2010 according to its Governing Council. Due to open in 2014, the new 185 m tall building will be located in Frankfurt's Ostend and will be built at the site of the Grossmarkthalle (wholesale market). Project architects, Coop Himmelblau...more

Jan 5, Dubai

The stunning name change of the world's tallest building from Burj Dubai to Burj Khalifa, announced at the tower's opening, is going to upset a lot of applecarts - and is likely to wind up creating a lot of inconvenience for a lot of people. Consider: T-shirts and caps for sale in the skyscraper's observatory...more

Jan 5, London

Design team Chimera has conceived of a incredible series of spiraling skyscrapers for London modeled after the complex ecosystems created by the mangrove tree. Dubbed Mangal City, the project is an “urban ecological system” composed of modular pod capsules that shift to adapt to environmental and contextual conditions...more

Jan 4, Jeddah

The builders of the Burj Khalifa are lining up to secure multibillion-dollar contracts on the planned 1.1km Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia, the most likely successor to the title of tallest tower in the world. While the financial downturn has stalled some major projects in the kingdom, the rising price of crude, which hit a two-month high in January 2010...more

Jan 4, Istanbul

Oncuoglu Architecture designed the B199, a 74.500 m² mix-use development for Istanbul, Turkey.  Inspired by the urban landscape of Istanbul, the project occupies the intersection of the Gultepe and Buyukdere, two districts with different urban patterns. The project is designed to act as a “bridge integrating the spatial discontinuity between two sides of the site...more

Jan 4, London

CZWG Architects designed this student tower to stand near Arsenal football club's Emirates Stadium on Hornsey Road in the London borough of Islington. Already having been busy in the area with a number of other developments such as Eden Grove, completed in 2006, the tower marks a move away from the lower-rise architecture in the area...more

Jan 4, Dubai

Burj Dubai, renamed Burj Khalifa in honor of the ruler of Abu Dhabi who came to Dubai’s rescue during its financial crisis, is currently the world’s tallest building. Designed by the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM), the tower measures 828 meters from its base to the tip of its spire and has been recognized as the world’s tallest...more

Jan 4, New York

The agency building a signature skyscraper at ground zero is searching for investors to help market it in a flat real estate market. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has asked developers to bid for a partnership in the $3.2 billion tower known as 1 World Trade Center. The developer would pay about $100 million...more

Dec 30, Guangzhou

KONE won an order to supply elevators and escalators for Leatop Plaza in Guangzhou, China in January, 2010. The office building measuring 303 meters will contain 33 elevators and two escalators. This will be the highest building KONE will have supplied in China. The order includes five KONE MonoSpace...more

Dec 30, London

In Southwark, one of Europe's tallest buildings began to rise in late 2009. The Shard may not be more than a handful of steel beams at this stage, but it's already a firm fixture in the London psyche. The tower was first mooted by architect Renzo Piano almost a decade ago. After years of planning and funding difficulties, the Shard has now begun its ponderous climb...more

Dec 30, New York

It was with mixed emotions that I read in late 2009, right before Christmas, that all the legal papers for the Atlantic Yards project had been signed and executed. By one account, there were 640 documents. I thought about how anti-climatic and dusty the signing of all those papers must have been. Among all the parties present, however, one must have been able to hear sighs of relief...more

Dec 29, Dubai

There is no doubt that the Burj Dubai will be the world’s tallest. But how tall is known to only a few. “It’s still a secret,”  said William Baker of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP, the tower’s structural engineer, in an interview ahead of the Burj Dubai’s January 4, 2010 opening. “The client (Emaar Properties PJSC) will only let us say it’s more than 800 meters (2,625 feet) tall,” he said...more

Dec 29, Taipei

Taipei 101 is to hand over the World's Tallest Building title to  the Burj Dubai, but the skyscraper's management said that it still sees a bright future for Taiwan's landmark. 'We look at it (losing the title) calmly because it is natural that there will be taller buildings,' Taipei 101 spokesman Michael Liu said. 'Our targets for 2010 include making Taipei 101 the world's tallest green building...more

Dec 28, Seoul

Mass Studies completed 'S Trenue', a skyscraper located in Seoul, Korea. Also known as the superior treasure avenue bundle matrix it has a height of approximately 165 metres and consists of 36 storeys. The construction technique of the tower has seen a central concrete core rise, and then a slanting concrete framed element run up it either side, peeling away on one side on the upper floors of the building...more

Dec 28, San Francisco

Treasure Island didn't even exist 75 years ago. But the 400-acre man-made island is closer than ever to becoming San Francisco's newest neighborhood through a partnership between the city and private developers to create an environmentally sustainable utopia with about 6,000 homes, a 60-story skyscraper and its own organic farm...more

Dec 28, Kuwait

Discovery Channel's programme on the world's landmark architectural and engineering projects, Build It Bigger, will air an episode on Kuwait's Al Hamra skyscraper in 2010. Standing at 412 metres, it will join the list of the top-10 tallest skyscrapers in the world. The programme will deal with several attributes of the building...more