April 27, London

Upchurch Associates has completed the design for phase 2 of Mast Quay, a dockside development in Woolwich, east London. The plan features a collection of tall buildings with 218 apartments and 738 square meters of commercial space plus landscaping between the buildings and under-croft parking…more

April 27, Dubai

A luxury hotel crafted by designer Giorgio Armani opened as the first landmark tenant in the world's tallest skyscraper. The 160-room Armani Hotel Dubai is a welcome bit of good news for Dubai's leaders after the troubled debut of the more than half-mile (828-meter) Burj Khalifa in January 2010…more

April 27, Oslo

In 2003 MVRDV, a-lab and Dark architects won the competition for Oslo’s new waterfront development along Bjørvika with the design of the ‘Bjørvika Barcode’ for Oslo S Utvikling. a-lab has built the first building of the master-plan, the Oslo Headquarters of Pricewaterhouse Coopers – PWC in 2009…more

April 26, Qatar

'The Pearl – Qatar' by international firm Callison, is a 14 million-square-foot, 2.5 billion USD island community off the coast of Doha, Qatar. Both a community and a tourist destination, the Pearl is the result of increased efforts to diversify the country’s economy. Built on a former pearl diving site, its name pays tribute to its strong historical and cultural ties to the sea…more

April 26, Sydney

Work is moving forward on Grocon's skyscraper to stand in the Australian city of Sydney on the site of the former John Boyd Tower following the completion of an $800 million Australian financing agreement and pre-lets. The 46 story building called 163 Castlereagh Street will contain approximately 54,000 square meters of grade A office space…more

April 26, Seattle

The developer of the luxury Bravern complex in downtown Bellevue, bowing to new market realities, is converting one of the project's two nearly finished condo towers to apartments. The 236 units for lease in the southern tower will be put up for sale as condos again if the housing market recovers…more

April 26, Kansas City

A plan to locate a proposed convention hotel on the same downtown block as the Power & Light Building got unanimous backing from the full city steering committee. A concept by developer Ron Jury calls for renovating the historic skyscraper at 14th Street and building a companion tower to the west to create a 1,015-room hotel complex…more

April 24, San Francisco

If civility was a word found in architectural dictionaries, One Hawthorne would serve as an illustration. The 24-story condominium building meets Howard Street with eight stories of sandy concrete and punched windows, a decorous nod to the older masonry buildings on all sides…more

April 23, Toronto

Mayor Miller, Councillor Rae and Special Guests Help Canderel Stoneridge celebrated the start of construction of 75 stories, 243m Condo at College Park. With dignitaries and special guests overlooking the site during the ceremony, Mayor Miller instructed the construction supervisor, via walkie talkie, to “start construction”…more

April 23, Pittsburgh

Long recognised as the steel capital of the US, Pittsburgh hasn’t marked a significant high-rise building in more than 20 years, until 2010. Designed by Gensler, opened Fairmont Pittsburgh, a luxury hotel at Three PNC Plaza, a 750,000-square-foot, 23-storey mixed-use development…more

April 23, New York

With buyer confidence shaken, values re-calibrated, and the real money still in hiding, New York's newest luxury condominiums might seem like jewel-crested dinosaurs -- big, weirdly gorgeous, and already extinct. Or are they? Three architecturally daring condos. Are they last of their kind or breakthroughs in urbanely adventurous design?…more

April 23, Stockholm

Alviks torn is a sculptural housing complex designed to bring identity to the district - and thereby, to Stockholm. The site lies in a prominent location towards the archipelago, and forms a transition zone between the city and the landscape, which has inspired the architecture…more

April 23

The Council awards five Best Tall Building and two Lifetime Achievement awards annually. All nominated buildings must have been completed between 1st Jan 2009 - 1st Oct 2010. Deadline for receipt of nominations is April 30th, 2010. For awards criteria and submission procedure see…more

April 23, Toronto

At the northwest corner of Yonge and Gerrard streets, excavators scooped and clawed speedily and hungrily at the soil as if making up for lost time. Aura in particular promises to dramatically alter the look of Toronto's skyline thanks to its height and its relative distance from other tall towers…more

April 22, Chicago

On an irregular site that he disparaged as “almost non-existent” in 1968, Mies van der Rohe designed his last building, One IBM Plaza. The 52-story tower located in downtown Chicago and completed in 1972 was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The designation is notable in that it comes 12 years before the usual 50-year trigger…more

April 22, Birmingham

Birmingham’s tallest skyscraper will be built and can be completed in 2013, the developer has confirmed after securing planning permission. Planning chiefs gave the 56 storey landmark Regal Tower their unanimous support hailing it as a massive show of confidence in Birmingham…more

April 22

A structural engineer is poised to be the first to use steel fibers as structural reinforcing in the lateral-force-resisting system of a concrete-framed high-rise in a seismic zone. The application, designed to reduce reinforcing-steel congestion in shear-wall link beams and, perhaps, in shear walls themselves, is based on…more

April 22, Chicago

Bill Baker is the partner in charge of Structural and Civil Engineering for the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. One of his accomplishments, completion of the world’s tallest building, the 160 story, 2,717 feet, Burj Khalifa (formerly the Burj Dubai) in Dubai, has literally shaken the world of architecture…more

April 21, Winnipeg

Manitoba Hydro Place has been named one of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment Top 10 Green Projects. The 23-storey building on uses geothermal heating and radiant cooling to make it one of the most energy-efficient office towers in the world. In 2009 it won the Council's best tall building in the Americas award…more

April 21, Kelowna

As Kelowna's skyline changes, and buildings get taller, the risk of catastrophic high-rise fire is also rising. That's why the city's brand new skyscrapers have to include features that are designed to help firefighters do their job. The brand new 26-story Waterscapes Skye Tower is the tallest building in Kelowna…more

April 21

Alain Robert has made his name by risking his life to scale some of the world's highest landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower and Taipei 101. A talented rock climber, Robert turned his attention to the urban setting of steel and glass walls in the mid-1990s. So far, he has scaled more than 100 skyscrapers…more

April 21, Dubai

International firm Broadway Malyan was commissioned by Dar Al-Handasah and Dubai aviation authority to create a masterplan for commercial city, a new leading international commerce and business center, located beside the world's largest planned airport: Dubai world central international airport…more

April 20, Damman

Rising from the desert outside the Saudi city of Damman like some melted bars of platinum is the planned King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture, a project designed by Norwegian architects, Snøhetta. The scheme features a library with 200,000 books, a 315 seat cinema, a 930 capacity auditorium, a great hall and…more

April 20, Hong Kong

Rocco Design Architects’ new commercial project, iSQUARE, is a multifunctional retail experience, composed of separate units vertically stacked up 24 stories. Once completed, the new building in Hong Kong’s popular commercial area of Tsim Sha Tsui is set to provide approximately 53,000 sq m of gross floor area composed of 3 major components…more

April 20, Abu Dhabi

International firm Sparch have designed 'Rihan Heights', a luxury residential development as part of the Arzanah masterplan. Located at the gateway point to Abu Dhabi island and the grand mosque district, Arzanah is a 1.4 million sqm mixed-use development encompassing residential, commercial, sports and leisure components…more

April 20, Lewisham, UK

Barratt Homes’ new regeneration scheme to transform the center of Lewisham has commenced construction. The £150m scheme, delivered in partnership with the London Borough of Lewisham, will deliver a brand new civic leisure center together with 788 mixed tenure new homes, commercial units and a new cultural quarter…more

April 20, Montreal

To developers, Montreal is a giant, incomplete jigsaw puzzle. It’s their business to come up with the missing pieces: an office tower, a hospital wing, a condo complex, a concert hall, a museum. First pitch, then build – that’s the idea behind Le Montréal du futur, a six-day exhibit of architectural plans that opens at Complexe Desjardins…more

April 19, London

London-based Benson & Forsyth has won the competition to design two skyscrapers in north London. They defeated John McAslan & Partners, Panter Hudspith, Flacq and Studio Egret West, and will design two 21-storey towers, with 355 flats, shops and office space. Buildings on the City North Islington trading estate will be bulldozed to make way for the skyscrapers…more

April 16, New York

The Landmarks Preservation Commission named the former Spring Mills headquarters at 104 West 40th Street the newest New York City landmark. Designed by skyscraper savants Harrison & Abramowitz, and completed in 1963, it is less the 21 stories of green glass on a slender facade that sets this building apart…more

April 16, Chicago

A new walking tour will let you download the history of great Chicago buildings on a web-enabled cell  phone. The tour promises to give you a quick and easy way to access loads of information about ten early Chicago skyscrapers, among them Louis Sullivan's former Carson Pirie Scott & Co. store, Holabird & Roche's Marquette Building, and…more

April 16, New York

Of the dozens of buildings designed by McKim, Mead & White in New York City, nearly every one has become a protected landmark. One of the few unprotected could soon be headed for the wrecking ball, replaced by an office tower designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli that would surpass every skyscraper in Midtown but the Empire State Building…more

April 16, Delft

It is common knowledge that the Dutch – led by Rem Koolhaas - have influenced architecture in Europe these last years. With hundreds of projects calling for a revision of leading-edge theories, the Mecanoo agency is part of this dominant trend. Created in 1984, the agency realized projects across the world, such as the Montevideo Tower, Rotterdam and many…more

April 16, London

Held on the 23rd of May 2010 the London Twin Peak challenge features two tall buildings - Citypoint and the Broadgate Tower. The idea is to run up to the top of them one at a time, either as an individual or as part of a team of four. This translates into clambering up 67 stories, 284 meters (a height roughly equivalent to the under construction Pinnacle)…more

April 16, Chicago

Roosevelt University President Chuck Middleton will be joined by Mayor Richard M. Daley, as well as other local dignitaries, to break ground on a new 32-story tower that will act as a vertical campus for the school. The $118 million building, when complete in January 2012, will have classrooms, lecture halls, science labs, conference rooms, and…more

April 16, Ho Chi Minh City

A 68-level skyscraper under construction in Ho Chi Minh City will be inaugurated October 2010 as the country’s tallest high-rise, providing more office space in the southern economic hub. The Bitexco Financial Tower, with a shape of a lotus bud, is situated in a prime location in the city’s center, just a few steps from the Saigon River bank in District 1…more

April 16

High-rise building fires present problems that require implementation of specific functions or duties in a command system. The ability to expand from a routine fire to one presenting unusual types of hazards can be accomplished only through a system designed for this type of growth…more

April 15, Luanda, Angola

Sky Residence II, a tower with 22 floors, is set to create apartments of great comfort, making the most of it's magnificent sea views. Risco architects combine simplex and duplex types and ‘break’ the original volume into sections of smaller size, increasing the perimeter and creating bumps on the facades…more

April 15, Chicago

Remember 7 South Dearborn? It was the Chicago Spire of the late 1990s, a supertall, super-skinny tower that never materialized despite all the hype surrounding it. Chicago architect Adrian Smith, then with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, designed the 2,000-footer, which was to have had four distinct parts…more

April 14, New Brooklyn

Rose Plaza might look like yet another luxury condominium on the Williamsburg waterfront: a trio of towers planned for a former lumber yard. But after last-minute concessions won by local City Council representative Stephen Levin, the project can be seen as a beacon for less density and more affordability along the north Brooklyn shore…more

April 14, London

Benson & Forsyth has won planning permission for two skyscrapers in north London. The 21-storey towers, which will contain 355 flats, shops and office space, are part of a five-year regeneration project in Islington. The practice’s competition-winning £30 million scheme will be the area’s biggest project since Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium…more

April 14, Berlin

Living in the city definitely has a lower environmental footprint, but families often miss out on having a backyard and a garden. The Spiral Tower, designed by Philipp von Bock, is a family friendly eco tower designed for Berlin. Apartments are stacked in opposite directions in a criss-cross pattern, leaving open spaces for garden terraces…more

April 13, New York

The Skyscraper Museum in New York City will open The Rise of Wall Street, an exhibition that charts the architectural evolution of one of the world's most famous locales.  "Wall Street" is a broad metaphor for the American center for global finance and a real place with an inordinately rich history layered into every lot of its nearly half-mile length…more

April 13, Abu Dhabi

Only about 125 miles separate Dubai and Abu Dhabi, but the Persian Gulf emirates can seem worlds apart in terms of opportunities for architects. In Dubai, unfinished high-rises litter the horizon, as the emirate dramatically suffers the effects of the housing downturn. But in Abu Dhabi, office buildings, homes, and even airports continue to be planned and built…more

April 13, San Francisco

Cities, by their nature, cannot be definitively planned. Forms conceived on paper can be extolled in utopian terms, rendered as lasting models of urban ideals. It's when something actually gets built that things get messy - for better as well as for worse. "49 Cities" is an intellectually immense and immersive exhibition at the SPUR Urban Center…more

April 13, London

Tower 42, the first skyscraper built in London’s main financial district, was put on sale for more than 300 million pounds ($462 million) as its owners seek to take advantage of the 12-month gain in property values. Jones Lang LaSalle Inc. was hired to sell the 2.2-acre (0.89-hectare) site on which the skyscraper stands…more

April 12, Bundang, South Korea

A collaboration between UK company Flexible Office in London Ltd, Samoo Architects and Engineers, construction management company HanmiParsons  and Hyundai Engineering and Construction is complete. The completed structure in Seoul’s business zone will act as the headquarters for Korea’s premier internet company, NHN Corporation…more

April 12, Waikiki

Kyo-ya, the owner of the Sheraton Resorts and Hotels, is moving to build two new high-rises at the corner of Kalakaua and Kaiulani in Waikiki. One high-rise hotel tower will replace the Diamond Head tower of the Moana Surfrider. The present structure was built in the 1950s and is eight stories high. It will be replaced by a 26 story tower…more

April 12, London

The tallest building in the City of London, Heron Tower, finally topped out almost a decade after it first surfaced. Designed by Kohn Pederson Fox and built by Skanska for Heron International, the tower is 202 meters to roof and will have a 44 meter tall spire on the top of it giving it a total height of 246 meters…more

April 11, Dublin

Dublin City Council is expected to approve a plan for a 22-storey building on George’s Quay, opposite the Custom House, when it meets again. If the project is approved, it would set a new height policy for the capital city. The project would include the 22-storey building connected to Tara Street train station, two 15-storey blocks and a series of eight to ten-storey buildings…more

April 11, Seattle

A nine-year-old high-rise near downtown Seattle with hundreds of residents and dozens of retailers will soon be nothing but a hole in the city's skyline. The 25-floor McGuire Apartment building at Second Avenue and Wall Street - built in 2001 - already has to come down because it soon will be declared unsafe for occupancy by the city…more

April 10, Toronto

Toronto-based architectural firm Hariri Pontarini Architects in collaboration with Great Gulf Homes unveiled the design for One Bloor - a mixed-use residential condominium tower at the south east corner of Yonge and Bloor streets in Toronto. The site inspired the architects to bring an ‘urbane sculptural quality’ to the design…more

April 10

The world financial crisis has shone the spotlight on the world’s central banks. These ten cool central bank buildings display something of their country’s character while at the same time stamping an impression of stability, power and wealth…more

April 9, Leicester

New designs have surfaced for a planned student tower in Leicester designed by Maber succeeding a shorter previous scheme that surfaced in early 2008. Situated on Eastern Boulevard overlooking the River Soar in an area it will feature 357 student bedrooms in both a 21 floor tower and a shorter block that lays along the riverside of 4 floors…more

April 9, New York

After years of making small toothpick models as a hobby and giving them away as gifts, Stan Munro began his first major project, ‘Toothpick City I: History of Skyscrapers’ in 2003. The exhibit contains more than 50 scaled replicas of the world’s tallest skyscrapers, including the Chrysler Building in New York, Burj Al Arab Hotel in Dubai and the Eiffel Tower in Paris…more

April 9, London

Extending the completed density at Crown Place is this new development by KPF to stand on the edge of the City and London and Hackney that if built will be almost 114 meters tall. KPFs main design, One Crown Place, can be summed simply as a podium plus tower that has a central section with two wings standing off it…more

April 9, Algiers

The third-largest mosque in the world is under design on the bay of Algiers. The most striking structure in the mosque complex is without doubt the 264-meter minaret. The challenge for the architects is to face the outside of the tower with traditional Islamic filigree ornamentation. The traditional carving of a facade would, however, take several decades…more

April 8, Paris

He’s no web-slinger but Alain Robert is gaining world reknown for his death defying feats – namely scaling skyscrapers without safety equipment. In his latest climb, the 49-year-old French “spider-man” scaled the GDF-Suez tower in Paris before being arrested. There’s no word on whether Robert will be jailed…more

April 8, San Francisco

The four-diamond W San Francisco hotel has earned the first LEED certification for an existing building belonging to a major hotel brand. As of its LEED certification, the hotel features energy efficient lighting throughout 70% of its guest rooms and 90% of its back-of-house, motion sensors, and efficient HVAC systems that save 300 kWh of energy every year…more

April 8, Washington

Once upon a time, architectural trophies such as the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower, and the Washington Monument could transcend their commemorative function to become cultural icons, emblems of cities and nation-states. In the last decades, even the best attempts to build American monuments have been underwhelming…more

April 8, New York

One of the many flashy architecture projects believed to have been killed off by the recession was SHoP’s highly impressionistic proposal for the waterfront portion of the South Street Seaport.  GGP is evaluating what to do with its remaining properties and it appears SHoP may once again be in the mix…more

April 8

Another day, another vertical farm concept, except this one is set out on the water to avoid taking up valuable land. This food-producing eco skyscraper by Australian architect Ruwan Fernando was one of the entries for a skyscraper competition and has a number of direct advantages over a land based farm…more

April 7, Chicago

Jupiter Communities, LLC has received the initial Certificate of Occupancy for the lower 31 floors of 215 West. The residents are moving in and the leasing effort is ongoing. Standing 50 stories tall at 215 West Washington Street, the building is only steps away from all the attractions of the Chicago Loop…more

April 7, Abu Dhabi

Ever since the Gherkin and Torre Agbar emerged together on the world's architectural stage, eggs have become rather "in". Another of the designs from around the world that has made this trend become apparent is the twin towered headquarters for the Abu Dhabi Investment Council in Abu Dhabi…more

April 7, Shaoxing, China

KCAP Architects & Planners has won the international competition to design a masterplan for Keqiao Water City in Shaoxing, China. The 45 ha site, which is occupied by redundant textile industry and residences, will be redeveloped for residential use with community functions and sport and commercial facilities…more

April 6, Moscow

'Tricolour' is a multi-use scheme under construction in north-east Moscow. The development features three residential towers, the tallest of which will be 58 floors and 190 meters in height, along with an individual office building runs through the middle of the site. The two tallest towers have curving floor plans…more

April 6, Australia

The final selection of entries from the national 'Designs for Australia's Cities 2050+' competition has been announced and will be exhibited in the Australian pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010. Australia is one of the most urbanized continents on earth, with 93% of people living in cities…more

April 6, Miami

Element is an ethereal crystalline tower that is a harmonic fusion of exterior and interior space into a sensual melding of pure form and simple, elegant structure. It’s a transparent glass sheath distinctively encased in an articulated shell whose columns create apertures that frame fragments of visual beauty and allow floods of brilliant light to define the interior spaces…more

April 6, New York

A few months before the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the Regional Plan Association released a plan for the region that helped to pave the way for the systems that supported New York’s recovery from the Great Depression and subsequent growth. Two other long-range plans, in 1968 and 1996 have argued persuasively for coordinated planning…more

April 6, Melbourne

The race is on to build Melbourne's first skyscraper since the Eureka Tower 2006, with a Southbank developer lodging plans for a 66-storey building. Office furniture manufacturer Tony Schiavello is seeking government approval for resurrected plans for a 225-meter apartment tower on Queens Bridge Street…more

April 6, Mumbai

Yazdani Studio of Cannon Design  has designed an iconic Taj Hotel for Taj Lands End design competition entry in Mumbai, India. The hotel is developed from the idea of “wave” that shaped by fins from its podium to hotel tower, while creating a cascade of terraces and decks at southern edges, it extends the visual connection into the sea’s edge beyond…more

April 6, Istanbul

As skyscrapers like the Burj Khalifa are built throughout the world to topple records and flex national and economic muscle, in the mega-city of İstanbul such tall wonders are seen as necessities as its population and its finance sector grow to new heights. As Istanbul continues to be the economic powerhouse of Turkey…more

April 5, Columbia

Drastic changes could be coming to Columbia's skyline in the Congaree Vista. The new development would boast two 28 story towers which would feature retail space and apartments aimed at students. It would also include a swimming pool, an open plaza, and recreational areas…more

April 4, New York

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, The Skyscraper Museum presents the program 'Green Giants' that explores the urban aspect of environmental awareness. New York and Chicago lead the country in plans to reduce their carbon footprints, and both cities have recognized that retrofitting older buildings is key to a more sustainable future…more

April 4, Dubai

The observation deck of the world’s tallest skyscraper reopened Sunday, April 4th, two months after an elevator malfunction left visitors  trapped more than 120 stories above the ground and forced it to close. Dozens of tourists were lining up for tickets to take an elevator to the 124th floor of the half-mile-high Burj Khalifa, where the tower’s observation deck is located…more

April 4, London

If bright colors always cheered you up, then entering the blue-and-yellow cabin of a Ryanair jet would be like swallowing a bottle of happy pills. It isn't. More often swaths of color mean that you're being sold to, or kidded out of something, as in the suave graphics of rebranded financial institutions, or the interiors of Foxtons estate agents, or the policy documents and conference platforms of Blair-era Labour…more

April 4, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

'City Gardens', an architectural project set in the Parklands of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam is designed  by Australian firm PTW architects. It is a large residential development comprising of seven sculpted towers of varying heights. This 127,500 m2 complex provides 926 apartments with access to various tenant amenities…more

April 4, Dubai

Burj Khalifa is tapping solar power for meeting a bulk of the water heating requirements of residents. A perfect complement to the sustainable development initiatives spearheaded by the UAE, Burj Khalifa uses solar panels to heat 140,000 liters of water every day, which will be distributed to homes and commercial entities within the tower…more

April 1, Portland

Harsch Investment Properties says there should be a more prominent gateway leading from downtown Portland into the Pearl District. A team of eight Portland State University graduate students will pitch its proposal to replace existing small-scale properties with two tall, mixed-use buildings to serve as an iconic entrance to the Pearl…more

April 1, New York

Liberty Tower, a 33-story neo-Gothic skyscraper adorned with terra-cotta gargoyles, birds, alligators and flowers, is celebrating not only its 100th year but also the completion of a $5 million repair job on its facade, which was damaged by the 2001 collapse of the nearby World Trade Center…more

April 1, Tokyo

Le Mannequin is an entry into the Tokyo Fashion Museum 2010 competition; the task was set to design a structure containing exhibition spaces for 20th century fashion history. The alabaster facade of the 110m tall tower is draped in black concrete whilst the large entrance atrium space features a bottom lit cat-walk…more

April 1, Naju, South Korea

This “Green Energy Theme Park” was designed by H Associates for the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO), which held a contest to design their new Naju, South Korea headquarters. H Associates went all out with sloping green roofs, integrated solar power, a wind field, geothermal power, water reclamation and a whole host of other green features…more

April 1, London

Plans for the tallest tower in the City of London are being redrawn by architect KPF and will include a three-storey viewing platform which will feature artifacts loaned by the Museum of London. Once complete, the Pinnacle tower, located in Bishopsgate and dubbed the Helter Skelter, will allow visitors to start at the top of the 288m-high building…more

April 1, London

In case anybody doesn't know it, a dramatic change to London's skyline is emerging in the shape of the Shard, a skyscraper on the city's South Bank that resembles a giant wigwam of glass. When completed in 2012, it will be Europe's tallest building. And Irvine Sellar is the man responsible for it. A visit to the developer's office in west London…more

April 1, New York

Developer Larry Silverstein and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have agreed in principle on a plan that would bring an end to the bitter stalemate that has kept much of the World Trade Center rebuild on the shelf. The Port Authority, New York City and New York state all have agreed to contribute $200 million in public money to back construction loans…more

March 31, London

The Cheesegrater, one of the tallest towers planned for the City of London before the recession, could be back on as demand for new office space in the capital returns. Landlord and developer British Land today said it was “thinking pretty seriously” about reviving projects shelved during the slump…more

March 31

Buildings are one of the world's largest consumers of energy and, as a result, one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases. So, green building--architectural design based on improving the energy efficiency of a building throughout its entire life span--has become increasingly en vogue.…more

March 31, London

The ArcelorMittal Orbit set to become UK’s largest sculpture. The Mayor of London Boris Johnson and Lakshmi Mittal, Chairman and CEO of ArcelorMittal, today unveiled the artist and design chosen to create a spectacular new visitor attraction in the Olympic Park. Award winning London-based artist Anish Kapoor has been given the commission of a lifetime…more

March 30, Melbourne

Australian capital cities have undergone profound changes in recent years. From Melbourne to Darwin, apartment buildings have sprung up in central cities. These high rises have been planned on the assumption that the residents would comprise a mixture of DINKS (dual income no kids) and empty nesters. High rise living is assumed to be bad for children…more

March 30, Tokyo

‘Kuro Maku' is a proposed fashion museum by UK architect Abre Etteh, which received honorable mention at international architecture competition, hosted by arquitectum. Following the old adage 'you are what you wear', 'Kuro Maku' aims to showcase the influence and ideological roots of present global and local fashion trends…more

March 30, Tokyo

There have been some spectacular submissions to the Fashion Museum Omotesando Competition to design a 100 meter high museum for Tokyo’s most en vogue district, and Wing Shun Leung and Donald Shek’s ethereal, multi-layered proposal spattered with colorful plants and flowers really captured our attention…more

March 30, Guangzhou

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) and CNTC Guangdong Tobacco Corporation today celebrated the topping out of Pearl River Tower in Guangzhou, China, a 71-story building whose unique structural form is one of the most energy-efficient skyscrapers in the world. “Today we celebrated the innovative structural form of Pearl River Tower…more

March 30, New York

Downtown Manhattan, where demand for office space began to surge three years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, is about to lose its spot as the best- performing U.S. market. Vacancies may exceed 14 percent of the area’s 87 million square feet by late 2011, empty space that’s equivalent to four Empire State Buildings and the highest rate since 1997…more

March 30, Tokyo

Polish designers Ryszard Rychlicki and Agnieszka Nowak of H3ar created a 100 m tall tower with 400 sq meters of floors for their proposal for the fashion museum in Omotesando street, Tokyo. Considering the limited areas of stories they decided to play around with the arrangement and the type of function, to shape the mass of the building properly…more

March 30, Belfast

Sirocco Quay is a huge 16 acre mixed-use development being worked on by property company, the Carvill Group. It's been masterplanned by Richards Partington Architects with five tall buildings planned on site, the tallest of which will be as much as 30 stories, 2,400 apartments, 15,000 square meters of retail and commercial space and a four star business hotel…more

March 30, Singapore

Situated at the entrance to Singapore's historic Keppel Harbor, 'Reflections' at Keppel Bay by Daniel Libeskind sits on approximately 84,000 sq meters of land with an extensive shoreline of 750 meters. Set in lush and expansive grounds, the waterfront development features six high-rise towers, some linked by skybridges, and spacious low-rise villas…more

March 29, Maldives

The Maldives, a tropical island nation in the Indian Ocean, may be on the fast track to becoming the world's first country to be submerged by rising sea levels. In response, their government has pledged to become carbon-neutral within the next decade, looked into buying land elsewhere to relocate the entire population…more

March 29, Tokyo

The Tokyo Sky Tree, Japan's new skyscraper under construction for terrestrial digital broadcasting, became the nation's tallest structure at 338 meters. The tower in downtown Tokyo will be one of the world's tallest. It surpassed the height of Tokyo Tower, a 333-meter radio and television transmission tower in the capital…more

March 28, Dubai

At The Top, the closed observation deck at the Burj Khalifa, is only the second highest in the world, preceded by the Shanghai World Financial Centre in China, Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has confirmed. But developer Emaar said: "Burj Khalifa is the world's highest observation deck with an outdoor terrace."…more

March 28, New Delhi

As the devastating blaze in Kolkata has raised fresh concerns in all metropolises, Delhi presents a grim picture with more than 700 high-rise buildings found to be flouting fire safety norms. Non-installation of fire equipment, congested staircases, narrow entry roads and absence of trained personnel, are major causes of concern in many buildings in the capital…more

March 28, Nanchang, China

These two "almost" super-tall towers are the latest designs from Skidmore Owings and Merrill for the Chinese city of Nanchang in the south east of the country which has an impressive five million inhabitants. Named Jiangxi Nanchang Greenland Central Plaza, the project features a landscaped site of almost four acres from which the two 289 meter tall towers rise…more