Feb 26, Fujian

A 262-meter-high skyscraper, which will be the highest building in Fujian Province, as well as another two 150-meter-high office buildings, will stand up on the north bank of Yuanboyuan (Expo) Garden in Jimei District of Xiamen. The skyscraper will be located inside the phase II of the Xinglin Bay Business Operations Center, in the mainland districts of Xiamen...more

Feb 25, Canary Wharf

Ever since News International decided they weren't interested the site has been mothballed, but now Canary Wharf has been working on a new design for 25 Churchill Place, the last available plot in the original estate. As before the scheme comes from the pens of KPF but this time features a 108 metre tall mid-rise tower...more

Feb 25, London

Land Securities restart talks for building 20 Fenchurch Street ‘Walkie Talkie’ tower. Shelved for 18 months, the provocative plans for an office tower at 20 Fenchurch street in London, penned by Rafael Viñoly, are being ‘dusted down’ in the hope of a possible restart, according to a spokesperson for property giants Land Securities...more

Feb 25, Long Island City

A 21-story office building in Long Island City which has been in the works since late 2008 is structurally complete. Workers placed the final beam on the Gotham Center tower, topping off what will be Long Island City’s newest skyscraper. The top floors still need to be glassed in, and the interior is not yet finished, but the 28th-Street facility is on track to open in 2011...more

Feb 25, Mexico City

Reforma 432 is a newly planned residential skyscraper to stand in Mexico City with a façade that is nothing if not distinctive. The front of the building which faces on to an existing circular public plaza, Paseo de la Reforma, is based on a triangular framed pattern with glass and steel in a manner similar to that of the corners of Foster's Hearst Tower in New York City...more

Feb 25, Glasgow

Councils could increase recycling rates if they put more focus on high-rise and multi-occupancy homes - historically the hardest-to-reach areas for this service - research for recycling and waste container firm Taylor suggests. The study, conducted by Professor James Baird of Glasgow Caledonian University, surveyed residents of 1,000 North Lanarkshire Council flats...more

Feb 24, Plymouth

Barcelona architect David Mackay has given his backing to plans for a tall building on the site of the old Woolworth's store in Plymouth city center. But the author of the 2003 Vision for Plymouth has called for the city's Design Panel to be recalled to make sure the planned 20-storey tower block is of a good design...more

Feb 24, London

Kokkugia is an architecture studio based in New York and London. Fibrous tower is one of the studio’s projects exploring structures based on fibrous skeletons. The series of studies is based on algorithmic design methodologies, exploring ornamental, structural and spatial order through this lens...more

Feb 24, London

This new tool from Hayes Davidson, the imaging company who come up with so many of those visualizations of London in the future, allows you to play with London's skyline. Showing one of the views towards St Paul's Cathedral from north London that's protected, it allows you to see the London skyline looked like in the past...more

Feb 23, Singapore

Las Vegas Sands Corp. said it will open a portion of the $5.5 billion Marina Bay Sands in Singapore on April 27, 2010. The project's nearly 3-acre SkyPark, which sits atop the hotel-casino's three 55-story hotel towers, will open June 23, 2010 as part of the overall grand opening celebration...more

Feb 23, Leicester

One of the final hindrances to the development of a new business quarter in Leicester looks like it will finally be resolved. Leicester City Council has given planning permission for a replacement building on Charter Street that is being offered to Royal Mail as part of a £9 million deal, although the would-be tenant has yet to agree to moving there...more

Feb 23, Dubai

Geotube is a building proposal designed by the California based architecture firm, Faulders studio for the unique environment of Dubai. The building features a large super structure which will, over time, grow a skin façade on its own. The system utilizes a vertical salt deposit growth system that uses water from the adjacent Persian Gulf...more

Feb 23, Sydney

The Premier, Kristina Keneally, has endorsed a plan to build one of Sydney's biggest hotels more than 100 meters out over the harbor. And the British architect behind the Barangaroo proposal, Richard Rogers, said he had ''no reservations'' about going where no private developer had been allowed to develop before...more

Feb 23, Tokyo

Despite the economic recession, Tokyo's pursuit of height shows no sign of slowing down, providing a lot more opportunities for its residents to enjoy the new facets of the city. The Tokyo Sky Tree, a broadcasting tower under construction in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, is visible from various locations as it grows taller...more

Feb 22, Chengdu, China

The Finnish company PES Architects won a competition for the construction of a high-rise building in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province. The skyscraper, which is to be nearly 200 metres high, will contain offices, a shopping complex, a spa, a congress centre, and a residential hotel...more

Feb 22, London

Construction of KPF’s 43-story skyscraper has pushed its height beyond 138m, making it officially the tallest City building to be built in 30 years. Tower 42 was the tallest completed structure in the city with 42-storeys, it was completed in 1980 and designed by Richard Seifert...more

Feb 22, New York

Designed as a direct descendant of French architect Jean Nouvel’s Parisian landmark Arab World Institute building, his new 23-story residential tower overlooking the Hudson River is nearing completion. Previously known as 100 11th, the tower has been named Nouvel Chelsea in admiration of the architect’s prestige...more

Feb 22, Ghent, Belgium

The Belgian city of Ghent isn't exactly renowned for high-rise buildings but it could soon be getting the tallest building in federal Flanders once it has been complete. The MG Tower is a 126 meter, 24 floors off building that will offer 28,000 square meters of space on an island site near the E40 motorway...more

Feb 22, Beijing

The story of the tower is a conceptual project of Beijing based WAI Architecture Think Tank. The story of the tower proposes a fictional construction of the intellectual urbanistic apparatus, using narrative architecture—which is a mix of narrative texts and images, as a catalyst of possibilities, challenging realities, and tentative alternatives...more

Feb 22, Yerevan, Armenia

After a UIA competition attracting 274 entries, no winner has been appointed for the International Business Centre and Intercontinental Hotel bound for Yerevan in Armenia. Instead a second and third prize were awarded, leaving the design for the Mercedes Benz-led project in the air...more

Feb 20, Gdańsk

Polimeni International LLC plans to erect a new skyscraper in Gdańsk. The commercial developer wants the office building to be one of the tallest structures in the Tri-city area, comprising 36 storeys and standing at 100 metres. It is anticipated that the total usable area will be 40,000 sqm, roughly the same as Gdańsk’s Prorem and Zieleniak office buildings...more

Feb 20, Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv's clean lines and low-rise Bauhaus blocks make it instantly recognizable - but the White City's skyline now looks set to change forever with the unveiling of new development plans. The municipality released details of T.A./5000, a scheme to revamp the town center and provide accommodation for its ever-growing population...more

Feb 19, United Arab Emirates

Sloping towards the open sea, Oppenheim’s luxurious mixed-use tower for the United Arab Emirates is both elegant and a model of efficiency. The pixelated residences comprising the development sprawl fluidly away from the lush garden oasis hidden at its base and onto the sandy beach. The design was conceived specifically to maximize the quantity of units available on the water while minimizing the amount of energy used...more

Feb 19, Chicago

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture LLP announced the launch of an affiliated energy services, engineering and consulting firm, PositivEnergy Practice LLC, with Roger Frechette as the new firm’s founding president. PositivEnergy Practice will conceive, design, implement and manage energy performance, resource management and carbon reduction strategies...more

Feb 19, Chicago

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat is pleased to announce its support of the 2010 Chicago Prize Competition: MINE THE GAP - organized by The Chicago Architectural Club - a single-stage international design ideas competition dedicated to examining one of the most visible scars left after the collapse of the real estate market: the massive hole...more

Feb 19, London

“An impressive 17 different uses packed into one dense urban plot and propelled skyward for 23 storeys”, Elis  — Darbyshire’s hypothetical mixed-use, is yet another “multi-functional monolith that aims to express itself as a regenerative, aspirational and, above all, super-contemporary” edifice of modern living, states the gallery...more

Feb 19, Singapore

With completion due in 2011, construction of the 38 storey addition to the Overseas Union Bank Centre in Singapore is well underway. The original and now landmark 280 m OUB Tower was designed by Japanese Architect Kenzo Tange, and much celebrated upon its completion in 1988 as the tallest building outside of the United States...more

Feb 19, New York

An iconic 79-story skyscraper long planned for Ground Zero that would have been taller than the Empire State Building appears to be dead. Developer Larry Silverstein has proposed a new financing scheme for the troubled site that discards the 1,270-foot Tower 2, sources familiar with the project say...more

Feb 18, China

Over the past a lot has been written about China and its seemingly endless stream of skyscrapers that are sprouting up. There's plenty of growth there, industrialization is happening, the population is moving from the countryside to the city but is that all? What else is behind China's skyscraper boom?...more

Feb 18, Dubai

There appears to be no hint of financial difficulties as far as the developers of Meydan City in Dubai are concerned. Having opened one of the largest horse racing facilities in the world, complete with trackside hotel and destination marina, the other major elements comprising the business, sporting and lifestyle district have gone to construction tender...more

Feb 18, Birmingham

Under construction in Birmingham is a new student development near Aston University on Bagot Street with a seventeen story tower element overlooking Lancaster Street. The project has been developed by the Bagot Street Partnership and features accommodation for 656 students...more

Feb 18, Chicago

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has completed the first phase of a comprehensive Decarbonization Plan for the downtown Loop area of Chicago. The product of a year long effort that involved 50 members of the firm’s staff, the plan lays out strategies for helping Chicago achieve a 25% reduction in carbon emissions below 1990 levels by 2020...more

Feb 17,  Amsterdam

Erick van Egeraat’s completed office tower is one part of the mixed use high-rise urban development  Zuid-As, located to the south of Amsterdam’s city center. The office tower has been designed with a ’stacked block’ structure.  Composed of a variety of shifted, light weight  volumes, the aesthetic appearance achieved is one of  ‘heavy materialization’...more

Feb 17, Seattle

A 45-story condo tower — in Federal Way? That's the plan longtime Seattle developer Steve Smith and two Korean-American partners unveiled. The Sky Hotel & Residences would be the tallest building between downtown Seattle and downtown Portland, said Patrick Doherty, economic-development director for the low-rise suburb of 87,000 residents...more

Feb 16, Vienna

Marking the gateway to Vienna towards the east, the Town Town Office Tower in Erdberg is the main element of a developing urban zone. Its location on the subway line and in proximity to the highway to the airport connects the project ideally to the city; with regard to urban development guidelines this offers the opportunity for a distinctive architectonic form...more

Feb 15, Houston

Downtown's historic 712 Main building — the Art Deco skyscraper that houses the Houston headquarters of JPMorgan Chase — has been sold to the Brookfield Real Estate Opportunity Fund. The building was part of a 16-property nationwide acquisition from JPMorgan Chase that included two smaller Houston properties...more

Feb 15, Dubai

We all know that the biggest, and most expensive of just about everything has been used on the Burj Khalifa, but did you realize that the project also broke new ground in machinery terms? We look at some of the tower's PMV landmarks. Piling: There’s more than 600 deep piles involved in the whole Burj Khalifa project...more

Feb 15, London

On a global scale, the United Kingdom simply doesn’t compete with having any significantly tall buildings. In fact, the UK’s tallest building is not even a third as high as the world’s tallest man made structure (Burj Khalifa – Dubai). However, London 2012 skylineThe City of London is planning to expand vertically into the skyline with a collection of brand new buildings...more

Feb 15, Hull

Work will start on Robinson Architects’ £100m Manor Mill development in Hull in time to meet a council-imposed deadline, its developer has insisted. Manor Property Group was given just two years to begin work on the city’s tallest tower when councilors gave it the thumbs-up in November 2008...more

Feb 15, New York

Toren Tower in Downtown Brooklyn, New York is open to occupants. The 38 storey residential condominium tower holds 240 units and is a dramatic addition within its context, one of four new buildings at corners of the Myrtle Avenue/Flatbrush Avenue junction in the regenerating district...more

Feb 15, Beijing

SOM unveiled plans for a new urban center in Beijing’s Dawangjing District that will feature an integrated heating and cooling solution designed to reduce energy use and carbon emissions. The new development will include a central park that utilizes a geothermal heat-exchange system to help passively heat and cool all of the district’s buildings...more

Feb 15, Antwerp

Like most port cities in these days, the Belgian port of Antwerp also tried to revitalize parts of its industrial facilities through residential and cultural buildings. The first step has been completed: Two residential towers, north of Antwerp's city center along the Kattendijkdok, planned by Diener+Diener Architects (Original Article: German)...more

Feb 12, Hanoi

WSP Architectural Design and Benoy Architects have been working on this project in Hanoi that will accommodate Holiday Inn as its main anchor tenant. The 21 storey, 105 meter tall building sits on a one hectare site about 2 miles from the center of Hanoi in the growing Dong Da district, an area that has several other tall buildings at various stages of development...more

Feb 12, Chicago

Skyscraper! The word conjures up soaring towers of steel-and-glass--along with congested streets and blotted-out patches of sky. For years, Chicago has been defined by its skyscrapers, its suburbs by their single-family houses. Yet this age-old dichotomy has little to do with the way we live and work today...more

Feb 12, Dublin

Siptu will lodge a planning application with Dublin City Council to replace Liberty Hall with a significantly taller building, topped by a “sky pod” that would give visitors panoramic views over the city and Dublin Bay. The existing 17-storey building, which is 60m (197ft) tall, would be replaced by a 20-storey tower rising to a height of 84m (277ft)...more

Feb 12, Vancouver

At the unveiled Web site 'Shape Vancouver 2050', users are given a digital model of the Vancouver skyline, the ability to extrude buildings upwards, and a visual gauge of the resulting effects on the city’s downtown. As the user drags the digital towers higher and population density increases, meters at the bottom of the screen go up too—energy saved, carbon use curbed, dollars added to the city coffers...more

Feb 11, Nashville

For employees of Pinnacle Financial Partners and law firm Bass, Berry & Sims, The Pinnacle at Symphony Place is simply where they've been going to work for several weeks. On Feburary 10th, 2010 it was the site of a lavish grand opening, or as the building's Atlanta-based developer, Barry Real Estate Cos. called it, a landmark celebration...more

Feb 11, Madrid

It was the “concrete tree” that enraged purists and led to widespread criticism. But now apartments in the Torres Blancas – Madrid’s controversial high-rise block – can fetch prices of up to one million euros. As its plural name suggests, a second tower was due to be built which never got off the ground...more

Feb 11, Seoul

This nearly 800-foot-tall tower’s pleated curtain wall is more than just an intriguing design gesture. It cleverly allows for angled building integrated photovoltaics in the spandrel panels on the southwest and northwest sides, which receive the most sunlight. This maximizes energy collection along the surface of the tower, while also...more

Feb 11, San Francisco

There doesn't seem to be much middle ground when it comes to a proposed 430-foot condominium tower that would rise next to San Francisco's iconic Transamerica Pyramid. Proponents say it is a creative approach to sustainable development that will add a city-owned downtown park and allow people to live near their work. Critics say...more

Feb 11, Vienna

An official ceremony marked the beginning of building the DC Tower 1 in Vienna's "Donaucity", which at 220 meters high will be the tallest building in Austria. The head of developer WED, announced the news, adding that delay in the beginning of its construction, originally scheduled for 2007, would make the project cheaper than it would have been...more

Feb 11, Prague

The Filadelfie Administration Building in the commercial heart of Prague is nearing completion, announce the projects contractors, PERI GmbH. At 17 storeys in height the building will provide 30,000 sq m of office space, and its signature four propeller-shaped form, designed by Czech architects DaM, is set to provide a new landmark for the prestigious BB Centrum administration district...more

Feb 10, London

A planning application has been filed with the London borough of Tower Hamlets for the Project Skyline development designed by Farrells for a site adjacent to Marsh Wall and Limeharbour. The development features a number of blocks on its triangular site lining the northern and western sides in two groups and stepping up in height to the north-western corner...more

Feb 10

Sometimes cities build really tall buildings because they want to house a lot people, sometimes because they want to increase the city's profile, and sometimes just because it makes more sense than constructing a bunch of smaller buildings. But could there be a hidden, psychological factor driving the construction of skyscrapers? Say, hubris?...more

Feb 10, Chicago

More than 15 months ago, with the real estate market sinking faster than a mobster wearing concrete shoes, Blair Kamin's blog for Chicago Tribune asked the pressing question: How would you fill the Chicago Spire hole? With the Spire still going nowhere, the Chicago Architectural Club is asking, a tad earnestly: "What to do with the gap?...more

Feb 10, Mexico City

With an amorphous look, a new museum is rising in Mexico City in the heart of a new urban quarter, Plaza Carso. The Soumaya Museum, is set in the upmarket area of New Polanco which is undergoing something of a boom period thanks to an increasing number of residential towers being built in the area...more

Feb 9, New Orleans

The City of New Orleans is entertaining a new approach in its 12-year effort to redevelop the World Trade Center: demolishing the building. The city has concluded that the land beneath the iconic, 33-story building at the foot of Canal and Poydras streets is more valuable without the tower...more

Feb 9, Dubai

At the Top, a visitor attraction located on the 124th floor of the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, is temporarily closed to the public following "technical issues with the power supply" but is scheduled to reopen on Sunday, Feb 14th, 2010...more

Feb 9, Beijing

The Chinese government is preparing to rebuild a skyscraper in the flashy new complex housing the national broadcaster, after the structure was gutted by a blaze sparked by fireworks in 2009. A joint committee convened by the State Council, China's cabinet, is expected to affirm the structural soundness of the the 44-story Television Cultural Center...more

Feb 9, Sydney

International architectural firm LAVA has developed a simple, cost effective, easily constructed skin that promises to transforms aged 1960's buildings, into sustainable, iconic buildings. A speculative project, 'Tower Skin' for the University of Technology (UTS) Broadway Tower in Sydney offers a unique opportunity to transform the once state of the art building...more

Feb 9, Gold Coast

Australian surfer's paradise, the Gold Coast, is set to add to its ever growing skyscraper cluster with a new tower. The imaginatively entitled Main Place is designed to stand above a new light rail station that is also included in the plans and takes up much of the podium space at ground level. With 50 storeys and a height of over 150 meters, the building will contain...more

Feb 9, Sanya City, China

Phoenix Island by MAD Architects is located in the center of Sanya City, Hainan Province, China. It is a man-made island surrounded by the sea. The site area is about 365,000 sqm and will represent the future of Sanya as the international touring and resorts city. The total building area of the Phoenix Island is about 500,000 sqm. Construction work is due in 2014...more

Feb 8, Los Angeles

A company that purchased 149 condo units in a new Koreatown high rise at a low point in the market announced that the building is sold out -- perhaps indicating a turnaround for residential real estate in the Los Angeles' core. The 238-unit, 22-story Mercury building opened in 2008 just as the real estate marketing was imploding...more

Feb 8

Can you imagine living in a high-rise apartment building where the 360 degree views are of fishes and saltwater? Although just a concept, this upside-down, underwater eco-skyscraper could be the future of building, especially if sea levels rise as predicted and we end up living in a water world...more

Feb 8, Dubai

The observation deck at the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, has been shut down. The developer of the Dubai skyscraper, Emaar Properties, is citing unexpectedly high attendance at the observation deck--as well as power problems--as the reasons for the abrupt closure...more

Feb 8, Liverpool

Plans to build the tallest skyscraper in Liverpool have moved a step forward. Developers have secured funding for the first phase of a 165m (541ft), 54-storey high building on the city's historic waterfront by Leeds Street. If the council grants planning permission, it will loom over the city's highest building, the West Tower, by 25m (82ft)...more

Feb 8, Mumbai

MMRDA chief Ratnakar Gaikwad appealed to a world conference of architects, urban planners and investors being held in the city to pledge investments for the metropolitan region. At the conference, organized by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitats along with the Remaking of Mumbai Foundation, Gaikwad showcased the authority’s various projects...more

Feb 7, Los Angeles

The sleek, glass-encased Ritz-Carlton tower represents something dramatic for Los Angeles. The tower, which includes 1,001 hotel rooms to serve the nearby Convention Center as well as 224 luxury condos, is downtown's first new skyscraper in 18 years. But it also represents a major gamble...more

Feb 7, San Francisco

San Francisco's biggest gamble in high-stakes urbanism isn't some skyscraping condo tower, it's a 4-acre site near Civic Center approved for a daunting 1,900 apartments. The first installment has been completed and has its formal opening in March 2010, a 24-story slab that looks like a simplified Rubik's Cube...more

Feb 6, Incheon

The four tower Lake Park scheme at Cheongna Posco in the Korean city of Incheon has been designed by Heerim Architects and features buildings up to 190 metres and 58 floors tall. The development which will be set in a new landscaped urban park, has four towers set along a single axis with the height of each of the buildings increasing...more

Feb 4, Leeds

The planned Ian Simpson designed towers for Leeds, the Lumiere, have hit a major speed bump in the form of the refusal by the local council to approve the latest revisions the developer wishes to make to the scheme. The problems refer to a decision by the council's planning committee to permit a number of changes to the tower to add apartments to it...more

Feb 4, Hull, Yorkshire

Hull's skyline is to be transformed by the construction of its tallest building ever. The 23-storey skyscraper, part of a £100m waterside development, is destined for the former Rank Hovis Clarence Mills site, next to Drypool Bridge on the River Hull. The plans also features accommodation for 590 students and a 53,000 sq ft casino...more

Feb 4, Atlanta

A South Carolina bank has foreclosed upon the site proposed for a chic 53-story Mandarin Oriental Hotel in the heart of Midtown Atlanta. First Citizens Bank & Trust Co. of Columbia, S.C., acquired the site at 1138 Peachtree Street in a foreclosure auction Feb. 2, 2010 on the Fulton County Courthouse steps...more

Feb 4, Shoreditch

Squire & Partners’ contentious 18-storey Art’otel scheme in Shoreditch won planning permission from Hackney Council, despite local opposition. The 350-room hotel development on the prominent City fringe site was approved subject to further review of the detailed design by the planning committee...more

Feb 4, Dubai

Al Attar Properties, a Dubai-based developer, has served legal notices to investors in its The Skyscraper, a commercial tower in the Business Bay development, seeking payments to continue with construction, a senior company executive said. "We have already linked our payment plans to construction milestones and investors were required to pay after we completed piling"...more

Feb 4, Croydon

The centre of Croydon could become a sea of skyscrapers with an extra 10,000 new homes. It is the equivalent of 20 new skyscrapers and an extra 25,000 people in the centre of the borough. Croydon Council’s core strategy shaping the borough’s future originally planned to have the extra housing spread out along the A23...more

Feb 4, London

Remember the planned, and indeed approved tower called Vauxhall Sky Gardens in London? Well despite having secured planning approval for the designs, the development is now being re-jigged although the original building mass will remain as before. The first of the changes is that the floor-plates of the tower have been reduced in width...more

Feb 3, Mumbai

“We are not going to talk about tall buildings over the coming three days. In fact, I say, we should stop making tall buildings because there isn’t infrastructure to support them,” said Antony Wood, Exec. Director, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, while inaugurating the three-day annual CTBUH world conference 2010...more

Feb 3, New York

The Port Authority announced that steel erection for One World Trade Center has reached the 20th floor, or 200 feet above street level. For this particular project, that means that 8,000 tons of structural steel have been installed by DCM Erectors—700 tons more than all the steel in the Eiffel Tower...more

Feb 2, New Songdo City

The world is bracing for an influx of billions of new urbanites in the coming decades, and tech companies are rushing to build new green cities to house them. Are these companies creating a smarter metropolis -- or just making money? Cisco's Wim Elfrink and developer Stan Gale plan to standardize many elements of New Songdo in other cities...more

Feb 2, Chongqing

These two designs by KPF are two proposals for a new supertall tower in the Chinese city of Chongqing, the third supertall project in town by the architecture firm. The project, estimated to be about 380 metres in height, is situated in the very heart of the core area of Chongqing's Jiefangbei CBD with MAD's Urban Forest planned literally over the road...more

Feb 2, Brooklyn

Toren, Downtown Brooklyn's most distinctive new residential tower, has passed several important milestones resulting in a successful completion. With the Temporary Certificate of Occupancy (TCO) in place, new residents have begun settling in to their new homes and taking advantage of the buildings' many amenities...more

Feb 2, Dallas

A Carrollton-based developer has purchased a partially built Uptown condo tower. CTMGT LLC – an affiliate of Centurion American Development Group – beat out a group of bidders trying to acquire the uncompleted Heritage at the Stoneleigh residential high-rise on Wolf Street near Maple Avenue...more

Feb 2, Kuwait

Kuwait’s Arraya Tower has officially become the world’s 43rd tallest building. The 60-storey, 300-metre high, tower was confirmed as the fourth tallest building completed in the world in 2009 by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) in late January, 2010. The tallest building in Kuwait, designed by American architect Curtis Fentress...more

Feb 2, Abu Dhabi

Over the past few months, the Abu Dhabi’s construction industry has taken several knocks in the form of mid-construction building collapses and on-site fires blazing into the night. The region was at particular risk from fire injuries and casualties, due to the extra difficulties presented by building the ubiquitous high-rises...more

Feb 1, Manchester

The people of Manchester may finally have some relief from the ‘whistling’ noise coming from the city’s tallest building. Scaffolding has appeared around Ian Simpson Architect’s 47-storey Beetham Tower to support works to reduce the noise being generated by the building’s blade structure in gusty conditions, according to developer The Beetham Organization...more

Feb 1, Budapest

It is an old dream of many Hungarians for Budapest to host the Olympics. The main location would be Csepel Island, at the Southern part of the capital. Besides the Olympics, the core ideas of the project are large green spaces directly connected to the natural environment, water, sustainability, densely populated areas and high-rise buildings...more

Feb 1, London

Almost 18 months after the bottom fell out of the financial market it's become clear the world hasn't ended and that London's property developers acted perhaps too quickly in canning developments in the face of the perceived risk of the day and although we may end up in a double dip recession, an actual economic depression is not on the horizon...more

Jan 31, Los Angeles

Given the recession, many in downtown Los Angeles assumed a mega-project once planned for the Pershing Square was dead. But there are now signs that Park + Fifth might still have a chance. Plans for the $1-billion high-rise condominium complex overlooking Pershing Square Park in downtown Los Angeles were unveiled in 2007 amid fanfare...more

Jan 31, Dublin

The planned U2 Tower in the Dublin docklands has been put on hold. The Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) has written to the backers of the €200 million project, saying it will not go ahead until 2011 at the earliest. It is the latest setback for the skyscraper project, which had already been put on hold for a year...more

Jan 31, Anyang City, South Korea

A plan by Anyang City to construct a skyscraper has added fuel to public anger over high-cost luxury municipal buildings. The city, just south of Seoul, has announced the 100-story building plan that will require 2.2 trillion won ($1.9 billion). It said the "Sky Tower" project is designed to house the municipal administration, the city council, a business center...more

Jan 29, Pittsburgh

Rising 841 feet above Grant Street, the U.S. Steel Tower has been the city's tallest building since it opened in August 1970. Built by U.S. Steel as its corporate headquarters the building attained stature for its distinctive triangular footprint and its external girdering system that pioneered the use of Cor-ten steel...more

Jan 29

The idea of integrating solar power with building materials has been an attractive concept for decades, but one of the biggest challenges, has been aesthetics. PhotoCASE A curtain of solar concentrators permit light to flow into a building while generating electricity and even heating water...more

Jan 29

As more and more flashy new buildings lined up for their bona fides, LEED routinely allowed them to stand on its shoulders and reap the benefits of sustainable credentials and higher property values. But once the certifications had been awarded, did those buildings look back? Did they keep the green promises they’d made?...more

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