Sep 26, Sydney

What do you think of Tony Owen Partners’ latest luxury apartments?  The design will shortly enter its construction phase on Elizabeth Street in Sydney’s CBD in prestigious Hyde Park.  With only 19 apartments, this exclusive development intends to define the new standard in luxury and contemporary design for Australia..…more

Sep 25, Abu Dhabi

Back in 2007, when the government here announced its plan for “the world’s first zero-carbon city” on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, many Westerners dismissed it as a gimmick, a faddish follow-up to neighboring Dubai’s half-mile-high tower in the desert and archipelago of man-made islands in the shape of palm trees.…more

Sep 24, Vancouver

Residents who were forced from their Vancouver highrise condos by suspicious fumes in mid-September were finally given the green light to return to their homes September 23rd. Residents of the Electra building on the corner of Burrard and Nelson streets were evacuated twice and were barred from entering their apartments.…more

Sep 24, Miami

MDM Development Group, developer of downtown Miami’s Wells Fargo Center, took it upon itself to increase access to its new office high rise by having a crew break up a street median without a permit.  Currently, the only legal access into the high-rise garage is via an Interstate 95 off ramp that morphs into Northeast Third Street…more

Sep 24, Chicago

Not all modernist buildings are worth saving--I was glad to see the Mies van der Rohe-designed brick hut at the Illinois Institute of Technology bite the dust  in 2009 to make way for a new Metra station--but the really good ones are no less valuable than the works of Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright.…more

Sep 24, Manchester

Plans for three residential towers on Faber Street in central Manchester had seemed to have fallen by the wayside, but a new planning application was filed in September 2010 that the developer hopes will kick-start the scheme.  One factor for the renewed planning application could be that the site on Faber Street and Roger Street…more

Sep 23, Dubai

How can architecture autonomously grow and expand when it is not constructed with living materials? It almost sounds like a nonsensical riddle, but such a thing might actually be possible if Faulders Studio ever gets a chance to build its ‘GEOtube Building‘, a concept for Dubai that features a self-built exoskeleton made from accumulated sea salt deposits.…more

Sep 23, New York

The Sperone Westwater gallery by Foster + Partners architects opened in New York in September 2010, featuring a moving exhibition space that connects the floors of the gallery. The 12 by 20 foot moving gallery allows visitors to travel between floors or can be fixed at a chosen level to extend the static exhibition spaces…more

Sep 23, Warsaw

Poland-based firm OneByNine studio has designed the Swietokrzyska Tower located in the center of Warsaw, Poland, next to the main street in the city. OneByNine tried to minimize southern facade which is most exposed to the sun while the west facade are also being protected from the sun…more

Sep 23, New South Wales

The projects shown here are the latest in an international series of design studios under the title of the Vertical Architecture STudio, or VAST. Created in 2006 with the explicit aim of exploring new forms of high-rise architecture and urban design, all projects to date have been located on large inner city or “brownfield” sites close to mass transportation hubs…more

Sep 23, London

Songbird, the owner of Canary Wharf, is close to expanding into the City, with talks about a joint venture with Land Securities to develop the "Walkie-Talkie" skyscraper to be concluded soon. Plans to build the 160-meter tower at 20 Fenchurch Street, designed by the award-winning architect Rafael Viñoly…more

Sep 22, Federal Way

Twin Development and the Federal Way City Council each dropped a bombshell. The developer announced it could not meet its deadline to purchase the former AMC Theatres property from the city. The council voted 4 to 3 to extend the closing date on the land for the seventh time…more

Sep 22, Amsterdam

Dutch architects UNStudio have completed a 21-story office tower in their hometown of Amsterdam with colorfully glazed recesses in the facade spanning multiple floors. The tower’s voids allow light to penetrate deeper into the communal areas of the interior and are intended to make a greater connection between the interior spaces and the external facade…more

Sep 22, Calgary

The iconic Bow tower has hit its maximum height of 59 stories. The skyscraper in the heart of downtown Calgary, which will be the home of energy companies Encana and Cenovus when completed in early 2012, has 58 stories of office space and one additional story for mechanical use…more

Sep 20, New York

It’s difficult to stand out in a big city, especially one that never sleeps. These images show the glistening new column that is Eleven Times Square. Designed by FXFOWLE with structural engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti and nestled in the heart of Manhattan, up close it is visually apparent that many intricate little details have been woven into this structure…more

Sep 20, London

As part of their attempts to bring an equity partner on board for the Leadenhall Building and turn it into a joint venture, British Land has come up with a website to try and market the building. The aim of it is to try and recruit a partner who will have a share of the freehold of the 46 story with British Land…more

Sep 20

Living a green lifestyle just got a whole lot easier with the Recycling Tower from designers Minh Ngoc Phan and Sim Lee Yee. This urban skyscraper design concept couples individual living space with personalized recycling centers. Each modular apartment has specially designed built-in compartments for sorting and transporting all manners of recycling…more

Sep 20, Manhattan

Everyone in Manhattan, whether first-time visitor or longtime resident, experiences the awe of gazing up at the soaring stone, steel, and glass towers of Wall Street or Midtown, and wonders how those structures came to be built. First published in 1999, Manhattan Skyscrapers was the first book to document the most important peaks in the city's concrete canyons…more

Sep 20, Toronto

Made modern: That was what happened to Toronto when it launched a 1958 international design competition and landed an emerging star of Finnish modernism, Viljo Revell, to design its futuristic City Hall. A symposium and exhibit are being held to mark the 45th anniversary of the building designed by Viljo Revell – and his colleagues…more

Sep 20

The long-held belief that elevators in skyscrapers should not be used in evacuations during emergencies, particularly fires, is getting another look amid new research into how the World Trade Center towers collapsed on Sept. 11. "Yes, the country is exploring the idea of using elevators in evacuations," said Dennis S. Mileti, University of Colorado/NIST…more

Sep 20, Hong Kong

British designer Michael Young has designed a tower for Hong Kong with faceted surfaces that will change according to weather and lighting conditions. Called PSi Tower, the project is the first in a series of strategies Young is developing for the Wan Chai area. The building will house offices and apartments, with a public art space and restaurants at ground level…more

Sep 18, Chicago

Chicago gave its stamp of approval to an enormously promising plan to transform the vast, long-shuttered U.S. Steel plant site on its far southeast lakefront into a thriving community of high-rise apartments, town homes, shops, offices, medical facilities and parks. Imagine: Sleek residential high-rises lining a vast industrial slip…more

Sep 18, Toronto

Toronto is a city of high rises. Many of these building were built in the inner suburbs in the 1960s. In 1968 alone, 30,000 high-rise units were built in the city. They were considered a marvel of planning and forward-thinking at the time. However, as they have aged, they have lost their lustre…more

Sep 17, New York

With an expected completion date of 2013, 1 World Trade Center is the most expensive skyscraper ever constructed in the United States, with a price tag estimated at $3.3 billion. By contrast, the spanking new Bank of America  Tower in Midtown Manhattan cost about $2 billion. That is pretty much the going rate for building new skyscrapers in New York City…more

Sep 17, Shanghai

Skyscrapers have reshaped Shanghai's appearance substantially in the past decade, and now wind-power generators are set to become part of the city skyline. Eco City, a project on Shanghai's Nanjing West Road, scheduled for its official opening in April 2011, will be the nation's first wind-powered property…more

Sep 16, Brighton

London-based architecture firm Marks Barfield have released these stunning new images by visualisation studio F10 Studios  of the Brighton i360 development in a bid to attract serious investors to the project. Granted planning permission in 2006, the soaring observation tower has been teetering on the brink of construction ever since…more

Sep 16, Paris

Construction is to start on a new skyscraper in Paris's central business district, La Defense. The site is currently occupied by the VERITAS Building, one of the shortest blocks in the high-rise district and it is this which is going to be imminently demolished to allow the construction of the tower, D2. With 37 floors and a height of 171 meters, D2 won't be the tallest building but…more

Sep 16, Istanbul

The Karagözyan Orphanage Foundation, an Armenian community organization, is nearing the completion of a new skyscraper in Istanbul’s Şişli municipality that will house a shopping center, residences and a hotel. All the flats will be rented. The revenue from the complex will be used to help poor families and orphans that live under the care of the foundation…more

Sep 16, Brooklyn

Fresh off The Brooklyner snatching the title of the borough's tallest building away from the Williamsburgh Bank Building, developer AvalonBay made it clear that the new champ shouldn't get too comfortable. Plans were unveiled for a 58-story, 860-unit rental tower  to be located at Willoughby and Bridge Streets that would top The Brooklyner…more

Sep 16, St Petersburg

Russian authorities are set to review RMJM’s Gazprom Tower in St Petersburg following a report from Unesco’s World Heritage Committee. The 403m-high tower, being built for Russian gas giant Gazprom, and known officially as the Okhta Centre, has been the subject of fierce controversy since being granted approval…more

Sep 16, Abu Dhabi

Aedas joined up with Arup to design the Abu Dhabi Investment Council Headquarters Towers, a set of twin towers outfitted with a crystalline honeycomb shell that protects the buildings from the sun. The Investment Council Headquarters will be located near Al Qurum Beach in the eastern district of Abu Dhabi…more

Sep 16, Charlotte

The uptown condo tower The Vue closed on its first unit amid a tepid housing market and uncertain economy. The luxury high-rise, which started construction before the recession hit, has been closely watched by uptown boosters worried the project could fail. The tower’s general contractor stopped work after they hadn’t been paid for two months…more

Sep 16, Spain

Torre Lugano, one of Spain's tallest residential tower, attracted buyers with glossy brochures promising a luxury building with a glass-walled elevator and sweeping views. The reality is very different. Torre Lugano is a 420-foot-tall example of the gap between Spain's recent dreams of economic glory and its grim new reality…more

Sep 15

Researchers at NIST are stepping up the pace for designing safer building evacuations by releasing large, numerical data sets that track the movement of people on stairs during high-rise building evacuation drills. The data sets will ensure that architects, engineers and others involved in building design have a strong technical basis for safer evacuations…more

Sep 15, Denver

Set to open in October 2010, Four Seasons Hotel Denver brings new style and sophistication to the heart of downtown. The tower has already become an icon on the skyline. Located at 14th and Arapahoe, Four Seasons is part of a Deco-inspired 45-story building, topped by a steel pinnacle that illuminates the city…more

Sep 15, Melbourne

A high-rise apartment building bearing the image of an Aboriginal leader is set to become one of Melbourne's most dramatic landmarks. The proposed Portrait building, earmarked for the old Carlton brewery site, features a 32-story portrait of Wurundjeri tribal leader and artist William Barak…more

Sep 15

Wall Stalker is an animated architectural narrative, in which the characters of Andrei Tarkovski’s 1979 film Stalker become the protagonists of a three man exodus from a city of icons, in search for the essence of architecture. According to WAI Architecture a wall stalker is somebody who is taking the same risk to grasp whatever he can find in an equally mysterious wall…more

Sep 15, Chicago

The WyeEcoHab is a proposal for the Olympic village for the Chicago summer Olympics 2016. The design uses emerging technologies and examines their possible influence on the future architectural developments of the skyscraper. The prominent site on Northerly Island became a dominant factor throughout the design process…more

Sep 15, Seattle

The 76-story Columbia Center in downtown Seattle has negotiated a sizable modification in $380 million in loans on the property. Boston-based Beacon Capital Partners stopped making payments on the loan after the net operating income produced by the building failed to service its debt…more

Sep 13, United Arab Emirates

Perkins + Will are continuing their crusade into the realms of sustainable design, presenting three new projects in the United Arab Emirates that incorporate a range of powerfully effective methods of climatically adaptive design. First up is Dubai Tower – a 60-story mixed use facility featuring office space, restaurants, residential and hotel accommodation…more

Sep 13, London

Renzo Piano's Shard is quickly climbing up London’s skyline. The 1,016 ft high skyscraper will provide the mixed use density the city needs, as it incorporates apartments, office space, a spa, hotel and restaurants within its sleek pyramidal form. The Shard will become a prominent fixture in the skyline as it nears it completion…more

Sep 13, Minneapolis

When the first issue of Skyway News hit newsstands in March, 1970, the Downtown skyline was on the verge of dramatic change. The 32-story office-obelisk Foshay Tower still ruled low-rising Minneapolis, as it had since opening in 1929. But a building under construction just two blocks away soon would surpass Foshay, set a new pinnacle for the city…more

Sep 13, Shenzhen

Standing 1,111 meters tall, Logistic City is a massive greenery-filled vertical forest designed for the city of Shenzhen, China. The structure is characterized by ascending and descending paths wrapped with lush plant life. The building will be adorned with wind turbines and roller coaster-like descending/inclinating trams…more

Sep 13, Chicago

This project stretches the program, with the addition of a significant quantity of leasable office space, to create the tallest design solution of the group. Public space is interspersed throughout various levels of the tower, with the skyscraper museum on the upper most floors, and a public sky-garden at the tower’s pinnacle…more

Sep 13, Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv's first 'green' office tower uses recycled, sustainable and domestic building materials and ecological maintenance procedures for a long-term low impact on nature. Israel's scarce water and energy resources were foremost in the minds of constructors Ronen and Alon Azouri when they designed Tel Aviv's first 'green' office tower…more

Sep 13, New York

Construction is nearing completion for Frank Gehry's Beekman Tower in New York. The 76 story residential tower located just south of City Hall Plaza and the Brooklyn Bridge, consists of a public elementary school, luxury apartments, a space for New York downtown hospital and an underground public carpark…more

Sep 13, Istanbul

Skidmore Owings & Merrill has designed this new 200 meter tall tower to stand in the heart of Istanbul. The scheme is located on the edge of the Malask central business district. The 46 story tall DPC Tower will have 58,000 square meters of space and is intended as the second phase of the Dogus Power Center Office Development Project…more

Sep 9, Shanghai

Shanghai architecture is framed by its French Concession, the Bund’s neoclassical edifices, and Pudong, China’s own interpretation of the future. Much of it draws reference from the architecture of Ladislav Hudec, a Slovak who arrived in Shanghai as a World War I refugee. The film chronicles Hudec’s life and his impact on the cityscape…more

Sep 9, Dubai

This soaring Wave Tower has been dubbed a “seascraper” for its planned proximity to the waterfront of downtown Dubai. The design saves energy with a unique skin and incorporates green zones within to filter the air and boost the living quality. The tower is designed with a double-skinned silk-screened window system that reduces heat gain…more

Sep 9, Chicago

Ice skating in Chicago in January is nothing new. Doing it on the 94th floor of a downtown skyscraper certainly is. Officials at the 100-story John Hancock Center said that they're installing a rink that will allow visitors to skate at 1,000 feet up in the air. About 20 people at a time will be able to skate on the 1,000-square foot rink…more

Sep 9, London

A forest of glittering new skyscrapers bristles from the City of London, the completed Olympic Park transforms the East End and the £17bn Crossrail line straddles the metropolis at last. This is London 2030. But made entirely of Perspex. To describe the construction of this model as painstaking is a grave understatement…more

Sep 9, Ethiopia

A 58 floor high, five star hotel in Addis Ababa will become the tallest building in Ethiopia as well as arguably the tallest in the whole African continent. Presently, the tallest building in Africa is the 54 floors high Carlton Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. The China-based Guangdong Chuanhui Group will construct the hotel skyscraper…more

Sep 8, Madrid

This project is the result of a competition run by Madrid’s Municipal Housing Agency at the end of 2003. The philosophy of the competition was that each team would offer the best architecture solution that was able to imagine, subject to compliance with the “economic” parameters for the lot; maximum surface to be built and number of dwellings…more

Sep 7, London

The housing industry may be down in the dumps but one development that's definitely not affected is The Heron in the City of London, a tower that takes its name from the property company developing it. The first phase of the apartments for the residential building have seen sales of 45% so far representing 128 units out of the 284 it will have…more

Sep 7, Tacoma

A developer has until the end of September 2010 to buy city land for building a three-tower skyscraper project reaching 45 stories in downtown Federal Way. The City Council approved an agreement to sell 4 acres to Twin Development for $6.15 million. Twin Development  faces a deadline of Sept. 30 to close on the sale and pay the city $3.8 million…more

Sep 7, Canary Wharf

This design aims to create a vertical residential community bound together by aspects of color and art. Rather than restrict the tower to the blues and grays of typical curtain-walling, the design aims to integrate color and vibrancy into the building in a meaningful way, beyond just the aesthetic…more

Sep 7, New York

The pace of construction is so swift that any status report these days gets overtaken rapidly by the arrival of new beams and columns, rebar and concrete, pipes and conduit. About 2,000 construction workers are on the job, weekends included, officials said, and that number will just keep rising…more

Sep 7, Huaxi, China

"We have a national slogan: Build the Socialist Countryside!" explained Sun Hai Yan, a member of the local government in Huaxi. "Others build socialism on the ground. We go one step further and build a new socialism in the sky." The "socialism in the sky" is a planned complex of 72-storey towers…more

Sep 6, Mumbai

The Hinduja Hospital S2, located in Mumbai, India was designed by Architect Nuru Karim, founding director of LIVE (Laboratory for Interactive Visionary Environments). The project a 22 story hospital ancillary services building in the heart of Mumbai City, explores the topological transformation of a ‘mesh skin’ wrapped across the vertical tubular core…more

Sep 6, Shenzhen

The Kingkey Financial Center Plaza which is still under construction, has surpassed the neighboring Diwang Mansion to become the city’s tallest building. A new Shenzhen record building speed of two floors completed per day was set by the contractor building the tower…more

Sep 6, Vietnam

Started in 2007, Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower was expected to be the tallest building in Vietnam at 336 meters with 70 stories. In order to be listed as the tallest skyscraper, Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower must “exceed” the 262.5 meters of Bitexco Financial Tower in HCM City, which started construction in 2005…more

Sep 5, Southbank

The way has been cleared for a 226-meter, $400 million Southbank tower by noted architects Fender Katsalidis after the City of Melbourne lost a legal battle with the state government. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) has rejected an appeal by the city council against the government's decision to grant the tower a permit…more

Sep 5, Ahmedabad

Once the Sabarmati Riverfront project is finished, a drive by Dudheshwar along the Sabarmati river will force many to crane their necks. No, they will not be trying to relieve a crick in their necks, but to take a good look at the 60-story building that will come up on the reclaimed land near Dudheshwar on the east bank of Sabarmati…more

Sep 5, London

Land Securities is about to sign up the Canary Wharf Group as the partner in a joint venture to construct a new skyscraper in the City of London, 20 Fenchurch Street. More commonly known as the Walkie Talkie the 160.11 meter tall building will have 36 floors above ground plus two basement levels and offer approximately 55,000 square meters of lettable space…more

Sep 5

This scheme consists of towers linked vertically for alternative vertical circulation opportunities, in response to the growing concerns for security in high-rise buildings. The linkages provide quick exists at rush hours as well as in emergencies. Shapes of the towers focus and accelerate wind flow through the middle slot onto vertical axis wind turbines…more

Sep 3, Chicago

With its festive walls of white terra cotta and a soaring clock tower, the Wrigley Building is a beloved Chicago icon and a powerful tourist lure. "Explore our Landmarks," implores a City of Chicago poster that pictures the sparkling, Spanish Revival gem across the street from the neo-Gothic Tribune Tower…more

Sep 3, Chengdu, China

MulvannyG2 Architecture of Bellevue, Washington, won an international design competition for the design of a mixed-use commercial development in the heart the central business district of Chengdu, China. The development will be one of the largest of its kind in Chengdu, an inland city located in the Sichuan province…more

Sep 2

Every architectural style falls out of fashion but after spending a generation in exile, it’s usually welcomed back. Twenty years ago a weekend house by Richard Neutra might have been dismissed as too expensive to heat; now it’s almost as sacred as a Palladian villa. A similar reconsideration is under way for Brutalism…more

Sep 2, Chicago

The documentary 'Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City' recounts the life of Chicago architect Daniel Burnham (1846-1912), famous for designing the Flatiron Building in New York, Union Station in Washington, D.C., and the landmark 1909 master plan for Chicago…more

Sep 2, Istanbul

Taking shape in the amin financial district of Istanbul are a selection of towers for a project called Varyap Meridian, the first eco-friendly designs by RMJM for the area. The project features a whole group of buildings of 60 floors, 45 floors, 41 floors, 24 floors, and 24 floors that will accommodate 1,500 apartments, offices, and a new luxury hotel…more

Sep 2, Rotterdam

This design aims to manage the valuable resource of water on two levels; firstly to reduce local climate-induced and flash flooding by using the site and tower as a ‘sustainable urban drainage’ system. Secondly, to reduce the water footprint of the building and its occupants, by collecting, filtering and recycling water wherever possible…more

Sep 2, Yingde, China

This site is part of the main extension of the existing city centre. The site is 24 hectares in size and the brief the architects were tasked with was to create maximum value for the clients while also creating a masterplan that would serve as a model for the clients future developments…more

Sep 2, Miami

There aren't too many cities that can claim an eco-tower that also boasts LEED status, so Miami must be exceptionally proud to have a brand new downtown office tower with LEED Gold certification. The stunning 35-story tower hit a double when it was awarded with not only its green status, but at the same time its certificate of occupancy…more

Sep 2, Frankfurt

It’s hard being green in a high rise, and if you want operable windows, forget it. You might as well turn the place into a coal plant. But German architects Sauerbruch Hutton have figured out a way to let in fresh air without tossing their eco cred. The secret: a high-tech skin…more

Sep 2, London

Plans for the tallest tower on the King’s Cross Central site have been unveiled. It is hoped the building, by Glenn Howells Architects, will become an “urban marker” for the regeneration scheme, visible from across London. The scheme is arranged as a 14-storey “shoulder” element, rising up at one end to a 27-storey tower standing just over 100m tall…more

Sep 2, Rotterdam

The 100 meter tall Cool Tower in Rotterdam was designed by local firm Casanova + Hernandez Architects. The balconies are expressively angled past the building envelope with diagonal lines and curving corners, which helps to manipulate the seeming shape of the tower beyond that of a stack of fully glazed square floors…more

Sep 2, Tempe

The unfinished Centerpoint high-rise project in downtown Tempe has been sold to Cleveland-based Zaremba Group. The company will finish the two residential towers and retail space by summer 2011. Zaremba paid $30 million, according to ML Manager Chief Operating Officer Mark Winkleman…more

Aug 31, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Cambodia is aiming for the record books with an ambitious plan to construct Asia's tallest building, a 555-metre skyscraper worth $200 million (£130 million), Prime Minister Hun Sen said. The building would be five times taller than the country's present highest structure, the 32-storey Canadia Bank Tower, which dominates the Phnom Penh skyline…more

Aug 31, Baku, Azerbaijan

The masterplan for the White City in Baku aims to transform the area into a brand new, high quality urban quarter, acting as a catalyst for the regeneration of the city and the wider region. This was the client’s primary objective when asking Atkins to prepare the overall strategic masterplan for this 220 hectare site, located on the eastern edge of the capital city…more

Aug 31

Not just a meandering line etched in the sky. Not just a cutout or silhouette. Beyond restricting definitions, skylines can be seen as infusions of perception, imagination and desire. Every time a building mushrooms in a city, the skyline is altered. But transformation, not change, is the goal of invention. These design concepts change the perception of the urban skyline…more

Aug 31, UK

The UK went through a tower building boom in the last decade with nine of the country's skyscrapers built between 2002 and 2008. but with 11 schemes having won planning approval and a further five under construction, the UK is on the verge of a boom of even bigger proportions…more

Aug 30, Milwaukee

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has granted approval to the loan guarantee for downtown's planned Moderne high-rise. Construction work is to begin fall 2010 on the 30-story Moderne, which will have 203 apartments and 14 condos at the southwest corner of W. Juneau Ave. and N. Old World 3rd St…more

Aug 30, Mumbai

India's national animal, the Bengal Tiger, is endangered and its habitats are under severe and constant threat. This project aims to preserve some of these threatened species within the urban fabric of Mumbai. In the case of Mumbai, zoos and nature preserves have been located a significant distance from the city’s center…more

Aug 30

Many architects have dreamed up visionary plans for city centers, but few have actually seen their designs come to fruition in a real live urban setting. And while many such unbuilt concepts are technically viable, others are wacky, fanciful or downright bizarre. These 13 retro urban design ideas for the future…more

Aug 30, New York

The city's approval of an office tower near the Empire State Building is the latest reminder that New York is poised for one of its biggest waves of skyscraper development in decades—provided the economy cooperates. Developers are readying two residential towers that will rise above most of Midtown…more

Aug 30, Beijing

The China World Trade Tower III  celebrated its grand opening, closing the third and most recent phase of the incredible China World Trade Center development. The 81-story mixed-use tower is now Beijing’s tallest tower, hosting a hotel, offices, restaurants, meeting and commercial space, as well as a street level pedestrian friendly frontage…more

Aug 30, Phnom Penh

Phnom Penh Tower, a US$60 million 22 storey ‘skyscraper’ billed as Cambodia’s first intelligent office building is set to top-off. One of several towers that are simultaneously under construction across the capital, developers are hailing these as a sign of Cambodia’s strong and resurgent property market…more

Aug 30, Bangalore

Recession blues are fading and Bangalore’s skyline may get spruced up again. The realty sector, that suffered a setback due to economic slowdown, is now abuzz with the construction of high-rise structures. Builders are readying projects with a go-vertical mantra. The BBMP’s town planning department has okayed 116 high-rise projects…more

Aug 30, Sydney

A French daredevil climber who has scaled skyscrapers around the world was arrested in Sydney after climbing a 57-story building and into the arms of waiting police. Alain Robert, 48, who is also known as the French Spiderman, was taken into police custody when he reached the top of the 57-storey Lumiere Building in central Sydney…more

Aug 28, Gold Coast

The first high-rise school in Australia -- of up to 50 stories -- may be built on the Gold Coast after a study was conducted by Education Queensland. An asset management study involving the beachfront Broadbeach State School took place last year into the school's future site, valued at up to $150 million…more

Aug 27, New York

Standing on the corner of 10th Avenue and 33rd Street, opposite the high concrete barrier that surrounds the railyards, it is just possible to imagine what the far West Side of Midtown Manhattan looked like not long ago. There are parking lots and parking garages, a McDonald’s, and a boarded-up Irish pub, and not much else…more

Aug 27, Marringa, Brazil

New plan for Marringa's former airport district integrates public and private and enforces 'garden city' image. This urban design project is characterized by the curved planted streets that follow the landscape, wrapping the two parks and the two avenues of Brazil and Centenario and running all through the town following an East to West direction…more

Aug 27, Chelsea

Stuart Evans project Sheikh, Rattle and Roll is an interpretation of the controversial Chelsea Barracks development. Inspired by the debate that was triggered by the appointment of Rogers Stirk Harbour to the scheme; the project envisions three residential towers designed in a pastiche of various traditional architectural forms…more

Aug 27, Sydney

Movement of activity from the central business district to the western corridor is continuing, with construction of the latest office tower kicking off. Industry and business heavyweights, including ANZ Bank chairman John Morschel, developer Grocon's Daniel Grollo and GPT chief executive Michael Cameron, all donned hard hats to jointly turn the first sod of earth…more

Aug 27, New York

Even as the steel frame of a new skyscraper began taking shape in downtown Manhattan, developer Larry A. Silverstein and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey were entangled in a messy dispute over financing for three office buildings Silverstein plans to construct on the east side of the World Trade Center site…more

Aug 27, London

In a country where planners rarely identify their role as anything more purposeful than that of development controller, Peter Rees has been a genuine maverick. Almost uniquely he sees his task as one of design and has proved spectacularly successful in promoting a particular vision of the City’s development…more

Aug 27, Tripoli, Libya

Tripoli, Libya's second largest, row after row of sand-colored concrete apartment blocks and villas are sprouting from the desert. Hundreds of kilometers away, construction cranes dot the Mediterranean skyline of the capital, Tripoli. The multibillion dollar construction frenzy taking place is the latest and most visible sign of Libya's drive for growth…more

Aug 26, Changsha

KSP Jürgen Engel Architects have won a competition for a new mixed use building complex by one of China’s largest building developers, Dalian Wanda Group. The ‘Wanda Plaza’ project will be build in the six million inhabitants metropolis of Changsha. (original article in German)…more

Aug 26, Stockholm

Stockholm is continuing to grow as a hub of the Baltic Sea region and the Capital region of the Nordic area. At least 15,000 new homes will have to be built over the next few years. The city of Stockholm is seeking to develop denser settlements with a distinct urban ambiance. One of the new neighborhoods is to be sited on Årstafältet in the south of Stockholm…more

Aug 26, Hangzhou

Foster + Partners has designed the new CITIC Bank headquarters to stand in Hangzhou's Qianjing central business district. Perhaps as a result of the modest height of only 99 meters and 20 stories, a size that means the building will not stand out on the skyline and will likely be quickly enveloped by surrounding taller projects, the design is a distinctive piece of work…more