Nov 25, King Cross, London 

A skyscraper for students will be built in the heart of King’s Cross after planning officials unanimously approved the controversial development at the Town Hall. The 27-story building will be one of the tallest in north London and affect protected views from Primrose Hill and Kenwood…more

Nov 25, Seoul 

Lotte Group is reaching for the sky. Construction began on Lotte Super Tower, which is slated to be one of the tallest skyscraper in the world. “Lotte Super Tower, the key operation for the second Lotte World project in Jamsil, will usher in a new epoch in Seoul’s high-rises and will be a mainstay of the tourism industry,” said Lee Won-woo, president and CEO of Lotte Corporation…more

Nov 25, Doha 

Dohaland announced that it will host the 3rd Regional Meeting of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat Qatar Chapter at the floating Knowledge Enrichment Centre, on 30th November, 2010. The conference will be attended by an audience of prominent businessmen, architects, engineers and construction professionals from across the world…more

Nov 24, Dalian 

Groundwork has begun on what will be one of Dalian's tallest buildings, the 518 meter tall Greenland Center developed by the Shanghai-based Greenland Group. Designed by HOK International to tower above the north-eastern Chinese city, the scheme features an elegant tower based around a triangular footprint that morphs as it rises…more

Nov 24, London 

Sunday Times Rich Listers Simon and David Reuben have submitted plans for a 41 story residential tower at their prosperous Paddington Basin site in London's West End. The 140m skyscraper will also incorporate a 90 room boutique hotel and a public sky bar with panoramic views across the capital's increasingly busy skyline…more

Nov 24, Taiwan 

The ambition was to create a 300-meter high freestanding tower with sightseeing and recreational functions that will serve as a 'model green building'.  The 'tower of power' features 2000 rotors that together produce 8 MW. Tower of power is not just a symbol of good intentions; it actually produces green energy…more

Nov 23, London 

Having spent many months inexorably rising above the London skyline, the Shard overtook One Canada Square and is now the tallest building under construction in the capital. The Renzo Piano designed scheme will be the first supertall tower built in Western Europe when it is complete in 2012 with a height to the tip of the pinnacle of 310 meters …more

Nov 23, Qinhuangdao, China 

Evolving From Moshe Safdie’s Pioneering Habitat, Golden Dream Bay Design Breaks Down Mega-Scale to Maximize Light and Outdoor Space in High-Density Residential Towers. Safdie Architects announced that it won a competitive bid to design Golden Dream Bay, a residential and retail complex in Qinhuangdao, China…more

Nov 23, Toronto 

Similar in scale to the surrounding bank towers, the 51 story Bay Adelaide Center Tower is located on the western edge of a development site that occupies 2 city blocks in the financial core of the City of Toronto. The project contains over 111,000 sq m of rentable class-AAA office space and includes over 3,700 sq m of below-grade retail space…more

Nov 22, Las Vegas 

A luxury high-rise hotel designed by Foster & Partners in Las Vegas may be demolished before completion due to “technical diffculties”. Plans to build the blue oval-shaped 49-story Harmon hotel had already been significantly reduced after it was discovered that steel reinfocements has been wrongly installed on 15 floors…more

Nov 22, Taiwan 

The slender tower rises 400m. The original design integrates a delicately carved endless network of fret patterns: it is a familiar decoration, a tribute to the quality and creative ability of artisans and craftsmen. Taiwan’s past experiences, harmoniously combined with recent engineering processes…more

Nov 22, London 

Plans are starting to surface for the recladding of the fabulously Brutalist Guy's Hospital in London. Standing 143 meters in height and the tallest hospital in the world, not to mention the former tallest building in London, the present tower overlooks London Bridge and displays a stark concrete exterior…more

Nov 20, Manhattan 

Paul Rudolph: Lower Manhattan Expressway is a show of about 30 full-sized reproductions of drawings for a megastructure proposed in the 1960s to be built atop the controversial highway near Canal Street. The show was jointly organized by the Drawing Center and the Cooper Union’s Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture…more

Nov 20, South Korea 

More than 400 high-rise buildings in Korea have been found to be vulnerable to fire accidents in an inspection carried out in the wake of a blaze that destroyed luxury apartments last month. Among the 4,955 buildings of 11 stories or more that were inspected, 413, or 8.3 per cent, were insufficiently prepared against fire…more

Nov 20, Chicago 

Marina City is about to celebrate a big milestone. November 22nd, 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the official ground-breaking for the great city-within-a-city and its iconic, corncob-shaped towers of concrete. They were the world's tallest concrete structures at the time of their completion in the 1960s…more

Nov 18, New York 

New York University abandoned plans to build the tallest tower in Greenwich Village after the influential architect I. M. Pei made his opposition known. N.Y.U. had sought approval from the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission to add a 38-story tower to the three-building Silver Towers complex that Mr. Pei designed 46 years ago…more

Nov 18, Dubai 

This tower mixes various references to the history and culture of the city of Dubaï with a strong concern for sustainability  into a coherent structure that owes as much to history and tradition than to the newest technologies. The tower is made of a light structural metallic frame on which are attached hundreds of articulated sails…more

Nov 18, Singapore 

There's a lot to be said for an economy where pesky barriers like democracy don't block the way for major real estate deals. Want to launch a job-creating, tourism-enhancing, revenue-generating multibillion dollar development in record time? If you're Singapore, you can pull off a mega-resort, with hotels, shopping, convention center…more

Nov 18, London 

After the completion of Centre Pompidou in 1977 with Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers was commissioned to design a new building to replace the original Lloyd’s insurance building in London. Completed in1986, the Lloyd’s building brought a high-tech architectural aesthetic to the medieval financial district of London…more

Nov 18, Toronto 

A new condo project worked on by property developers Lamb Development Corp has been approved to stand in the heart of Toronto, Canada. Although the slender tower at 224 King West completely dominates its more modest surroundings at a height of 157 meters, this is the cut down version that the planners had multiple floors lopped off before they would approve it reducing it to 47…more

Nov 18, Dubai 

When one thinks of Dubai shopping, economic prowess and cleanliness come to mind. While all three have become staples and synonymous with the Gulf city, the environmental toll that has been unleashed as a result is beginning to force government officials to take note. The city’s energy output, in order to turn sewage into fresh water, pump electricity into houses and the need to keep all the grand edifices running smoothly, is being hampered…more

Nov 17, Los Angeles 

In a town full of themed buildings, faux pyramids and rollercoasters, refined modern architecture is hard to come by. The new CityCenter, which opened summer 2010, diverges from the standard Las Vegas fare with some more sophisticated buildings that make significant green strides. Six of the CityCenter buildings have been awarded LEED Gold certification…more

Nov 17, New York 

Already 48 stories high, the rising steel and concrete skeleton of the World Trade Center site’s Tower 1 is all but impossible to miss. But what’s easy to overlook is the first glimpse of the building’s transformation from a drab construction site to a stunning, 21st century, 104-story office tower. Crews installed the first pieces of its shiny steel-and-glass facade…more

Nov 17, Taichung, Taiwan 

The tower rises to a height of 368 meters (1,207 feet) above Taichung Gateway Park. The driving concept of Little’s development is a tower that symbolizes life, vibrancy and perpetual prosperity hoping to represent the cultural qualities Taiwan and visitors. The metaphorical rain forest of the interior offers life and revitalization to the local community…more

Nov 17, West Lafayette 

U.S. scientists studying the effects of fire on steel structures such as buildings and bridges say they've built a one-of-a-kind system to create their "fire." Researchers at Purdue University designed a system made up of heating panels with electrical coils that are placed close to the surface of large steel beams and other components to simulate fire as they are subjected to forces with hydraulic equipment…more

Nov 17, Dubai 

SOM has celebrated the inauguration of this 59-story mixed use tower in Dubai. Rolex Tower contains 30 floors of office space, 25 floors of residential apartments and is capped with two exclusive residential penthouses one of which has a private pool on the 57th level. Behind the tower, a 9-story parking garage and entrance plaza leading to the tower’s lobby provides easy access to the tower…more

Nov 16, Singapore 

The R4 Apartment is a hypothetical modular apartment built above a typical neighbourhood Hawker Centre (open air market) to achieve a symbiotic relationship. Conceptually, the residential component is powered by waste heat and oil from the Hawker, and consumes vegetables fertilised by food scraps cultivated using recycled bottles…more

Nov 16, Frankfurt 

HOCHTIEF Facility Management signed a contract to handle technical and infrastructural facility management at the Frankfurt office building for the next three years. It was agreed that no details of the contract value would be disclosed. The complex comprises a 200-meter high-rise which is under construction, as well as a plinth building which was already handed over to the client. Once completed at the end of 2011…more

Nov 15, Wenzhou, China 

German practice HENN ARCHITEKTEN has won the first prize in the international competition to design the new Central Business District in Wenzhou, China. The centrepiece of the future Central Business District comprises offices, a five-star hotel, commercial space and a public park.  The proposed design picks up on the river delta image and transposes it onto an organic park landscape which opens towards the sea…more

Nov 15, Dubai 

This project situates itself as a landscape urbanists approach to a Dubai Tower Typology. It re-accesses the way in which towers address the landscape. This is a response to the myriad difficulties experienced with the single-phase mega-project. As such, the Vertical Landscraper seeks to…more

Nov 15, Louisville 

Like many large scale projects around the country, REX’s Museum Plaza, in the city of Louisville, Kentucky, had just broken ground and had given light to many dreams for the downtown community when the nation’s financial crisis hit the city. Needless to say, financing came to a standstill and funding for the towers the city had been hoping for was no longer an option…more

Nov 15, Taiwan 

Starting from the ‘geographical’ visual of Taiwan – which is an island resembling a leaf – DSBA + upgrade.studio have developed the concept of the technological tree: they have designed 8 spatial leaves (with eight being a propitious number in the local culture) in the form of zeppelin-like elevators which glide up and down the ‘tree trunk”…more

Nov 15, New York 

A 14,000-square-foot green roof will be unveiled at Zeckendorf Towers in Union Square. Its designers and engineers are billing it as the largest residential green roof in the city. It sits atop the seven-story podium of the building located at One Irving Place. It is topped by the four Zeckendorf Towers that rise 29-stories at its corners…more

Nov 15, St. Petersburg 

Okhta-centre is a business center in St. Petersburg, existing yet as a project of Gazprom Group and city government. It will include the first supertall skyscraper in the city. The main tower of Okhta Centre is going to be one of the tallest building in Europe. The project mission is to create a new public and business area, moreover, with its its own specific recognizable element…more

Nov 15 

There’s the inside-out skyscraper, the horizontal skyscraper and the wooden skyscraper. There’s a bizarre three-towered structure made to vaguely resemble an elephant, tusks and all. And then there’s the giant pickle. These 14 buildings are among the most bizarre in the world, and they stand out all the more for their sheer height…more

Nov 14, Tel Aviv 

A new, 45-story hotel is slated to be built in Tel Aviv. The Israel Land Administration (ILA) plans to put the 1.5-acre lot on the market for $15 million next month. Located at the city's Ganei Sarona, the future hotel will spread across 40,000-square meters and will feature 800 rooms and 2,000 square meters of commercial space…more

Nov 12, New York 

Paul Rudolph, who died in 1997, was best known for the Art and Architecture Building at Yale, an extraordinary composition in concrete and glass that, when it was finished in 1963, was on the cover of every architecture magazine—the Bilbao of its time, one might say. Then everyone decided it was too brutal, too harsh, and it fell out of favor, only to be exquisitely restored in 2008 by Charles Gwathmey…more

Nov 12, London 

Southwark Council, Mace and Temple have received a prestigious award from the Noise Abatement Society for their efforts to reduce the impact of noise from the Shard construction site on local residents. John Friary, Southwark’s cabinet member for community safety, joined Southwark officers at the House of Lords to collect the award…more

Nov 12, Chicago 

Along the eastern branch of the Chicago River lies one of the most formally interesting skyscrapers in all of Chicago, Marina City by Bertrand Goldberg.  Completed in 1964, Marina City, at the time, was the tallest residential projects in the world and still remains one of the densest inhabited developments…more

Nov 11, Taiwan 

Peter Cook and Gavin Robotham’s Crab Studio has won second place in an international competition to design the 300m tall Taiwan Tower in Taichung. Inspired by the creation of energy, the ‘tower of droplets’ proposal includes the creation of 10,800 sq m of algae growing areas to create biomass that would be used to feed fish and plants, make paper and provide fuel…more

Nov 11, Yeosu, South Korea 

The design is based on a concept of beginning. The Silo and its concrete material represent the key ingredient in the history of civilizations, which, for thousands of years, has been the foundation of technological advances. Additionally, the ocean is the beginning place of life. With 90% of life beginning in the oceans, it is an essential life giving habitat which Gansam Architects & Partners regard as the foundation of beginnings…more

Nov 11, Oklahoma 

In a boom defying the national bust, Oklahoma City is witnessing approximately $2 billion worth of public and private development. The state capital’s major weapon against the Great Recession is its 17-year-old Metropolitan Area Projects program, designed to put the city back on the map through civic renewal that attracts private investment…more

Nov 11, London 

Herzog & de Meuron’s controversial Three Spires skyscraper scheme in Southwark, south London, is facing a huge redesign following plans to overhaul the area’s strategy for tall buildings. The yet-to-be-revealed proposal, dubbed ‘the Shardettes’, could be sent back to the drawing board and drastically reduced in height within the year if…more

Nov 11, Sydney 

Lend Lease has shaved the length and reduced the mass of the first of three giant office towers planned for Barangaroo in a bid to defuse opposition to the controversial development. Plans for the 43-story tower to sit in the middle of three commercial buildings at East Darling Harbor show 90-meter long walls have been trimmed by five meters and…more

Nov 11, Istanbul 

Turkey is showing the global credit crunch has passed them by with construction starting on a unique high rise project in Istanbul that offers "pay as you go" living. The project named NEF Flats 163 is the work of award winning firm Autoban who may sound like they've escaped from a German electro-music label but are actually Turkish…more

Nov 10, New York 

Many architects dream of designing a single skyscraper in their lifetime. Dan Kaplan, AIA, LEED AP, Senior Partner, at FXFOWLE Architects has led the design of four skyscrapers at Times Square alone, so he's living the dream and then some. 11 Times Square is the newest addition to the busy 42nd Street intersection…more

Nov 10, London 

Great Portland Estates has announced its half-year results, something that serves as another indication that perhaps the recession is coming to a visible end. Great Portland Estates is continuing to work on a number of tall buildings around London including 240 Blackfriars Road where they plan on preparing the site for construction in 2011, although such announcements have been made before…more

Nov 10, Sydney 

A giant residential tower - double the size of any other building in Circular Quay - is expected to be approved under a special deal that does away with height restrictions on the Harbor's edge. The as-yet-unnamed luxury apartment block will tower 191m above Circular Quay and will be built at 1 Alfred St, the site of one of Sydney's first high-rise offices, Gold Fields House…more

Nov 9, Taichung City, Taiwan 

The competition intention was to create an innovative design concept which will stand as a new-age landmark and a symbolic voice to the world of Taiwan’s new spirit. The Tower was planned to be at least 300-meter high freestanding tower including offices for Taichung City Government, leisure and recreational functions, retail and educational centers and the new Museum of Taichung City Development…more

Nov 8, New York 

A behemoth office tower that may rise opposite Pennsylvania Station would deface New York City’s skyline and cast a pall over surrounding streets already shortchanged on light and air. Vornado Realty Trust’s 15 Penn Plaza will stack as much as 2.83 million square feet on a site that was zoned to accommodate just 1.6 million square feet…more

Nov 8, Mérida, Mexico 

The Pyramid project is located in Mérida, the largest city of the Yucatán Peninsula, and the twelfth in the country according to its population.  It was built on the site of the Maya city of T'ho, or the city of the five hills, which referred to five pyramids, and has been considered as one of the oldest continually occupied cities in the Americas…more

Nov 8, Beijing

UK consultants including engineer Arup, architect Benoy and masterplanner David Lock Associates have all picked up new work in China as part of prime minister David Cameron’s trade mission to the country. Benoy, which also picked up three contracts on the government trade mission to India over the summer, will sign £4m of work, including to design a 700,000sq m mixed used development in the heart of Beijing’s business district for Maxon Group…more

Nov 8, Bucharest

The area is located on an important avenue that links the first ring of Bucharest to the northern suburbs. The site has access from two different directions due to its location near a junction of two major roads and the park just behind, allowing the office tower to become a landmark to the area. The major advantage of the site is the presence of the old FORD industrial warehouse…more

Nov 6, Vietnam

Property developers in Vietnam are locked in a race to build the biggest and best skyscrapers as a stronger economy allows them to pursue expensive projects with modern construction technology. Deputy Chairman of the Vietnam Construction Federation, Pham Sy Liem, sat down with Thanh Nien Weekly to explore the bigger picture…more

Nov 6, Singapore

This project is inspired by three key issues relevant to the context of Singapore; (1) The creation of green spaces at height to replace those lost by the footprint of the tower, to provide recreation and to mitigate the urban heat island effect. (2) To collect and recycle rainwater and waste water, as much of the city-state’s water supply has historically been imported from Malaysia. (3) To provide shading from the intense Singaporean sun…more

Nov 5, Tianjin, China

Goettsch Partners has been commissioned by developer Guangzhou R&F Properties Co. Ltd. to design a new 294,570-square-meter mixed-use tower in the city of Tianjin, China. Occupying a central parcel in the city’s newly planned business district, Tianjin R&F Guangdong Tower will be one of China’s tallest buildings at 439 meters…more

Nov 5, Los Angeles

The Vertical Campus, designed by USC architecture assistant professor Gail Peter Borden and Brian D. Andrews, sits over the Los Angeles River, but doesn't stay by its banks. It shoots way the heck up on a "steel cross-braced super-structure," with two secondary structures inside that "allow for a reconfiguration of units within the building as needed."…more

Nov 5, New York

Standing on the roof of the Edge, a luxury waterfront condominium project under construction in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, you can’t help but be taken in by the grand sweep of the Manhattan skyline. But what Jeffrey E. Levine, the developer whose company is building the Edge, sees when he looks to the north are vast swaths of undeveloped land stretching along the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront…more

Nov 5, Dubai

The architectural concept of the building revolves around the idea of a modern and innovative form. A simple and pure rectilinear form, sliced longitudinally to further reduce the bulk of the volume and introduce the impression of the two sleek and tall towers conforming to the long foot print of the plot. The building is then further delineated by exposing and projecting edges of the floor slab in a staggered pattern…more

Nov 4, London

The reappearance of cranes on London’s skyline has been interpreted as a vote of confidence in the City’s ability to produce wealth and jobs, with many of the 25-year office leases of the late 1980’s set to expire, and a crowd of “blue-chip” companies therefore free to move as the recession sees the construction of new offices at a 30-year low…more

Nov 4, New York

New York University applied to the Landmarks Preservation Commission on October 2010 for permission to add a 38-story building to the Silver Towers complex completed by I.M. Pei in 1966, a landmarked site on their Greenwich Village campus. Half hotel, half university housing, the tower would be part of NYU’s plan to add 6 million square feet of capacity by 2031…more

Nov 4

New rules set to restrict the amount of glass on a building’s facade have sparked controversy among construction industry professionals. The regulations, which will give designers the option of limiting glass to 30% or showing that they can keep solar gain to the level of the 30% design, have attracted a range of opinions from within the sector…more

Nov 3

The Urban Tree is a skyscraper composed of a series of "floating" cubes clustered together and sprouting from steel "stems." Designed by green architecture firm Geotectura, the futuristic building would feature greenhouse platforms at every level and be clad in photovoltaic panels all around in order to collect solar energy…more

Nov 2, Moscow

Metropoliya, a 1.6 million sq m sustainable development valued at over $3 billion, in the Russian capital of Moscow, has obtained approval to proceed with project planning by city officials managing the 2025 vision for the General Plan of Development of Moscow. The huge ‘city-within-a-city' Metropoliya project features a colossal mixed use development several kilometers from the Kremlin…more

Nov 2

A major international standard aimed at ensuring energy efficiency in residential buildings is being revised, with increased targets expected. Originally written by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), the revised version will be a joint effort between ASHRAE and the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America (IES)…more

Nov 2, Chile

Huasco is an arid agricultural region dependent on irrigation. With its river depleted, the Coastal fog-harvesting tower proposes an ingenious solution using only wind energy and gravity. The 200 meter tall tower is constructed as a spiral – it collects water particles from coastal fog, filters out salt by reverse osmosis and distributes freshwater to an otherwise declining agricultural area…more

Nov 2, Vietnam

Ground was broken for Vietcombank Tower, the Ho Chi Minh City headquarters of Vietcombank and Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects' first building in Vietnam. Vietcombank Tower expands the bank's presence in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's financial capital and its fastest-growing city. The 35-story tower will be the tallest building on Me Linh Square, a prime location on the west bank of the Saigon River…more

Nov 1, Hong Kong

The Asian metropolis is spending $2.8 billion to construct an enormous cultural district. The goal: to become one of the greatest cities in the world. Its scale and ambition—40 hectares of prime real estate (including 23 hectares of open space, 264,200 square meters of cultural facilities, and 422,800 square meters of commercial property)—are daunting…more

Nov 1

Green roofs, vertical greenery and gardens in the sky – skyrise greenery is greenery integrated into built-forms in the city. It has increasingly become an important component of sustainable urban development in the 21st century. The Skyrise Greenery Awards aims to promote and recognise greening efforts in high-rise developments…more

Nov 1, New South Wales

The Vertical Architecture STudio is run by academic and author Chris Abel. Chris has convened the studio at a number of higher education institutions around the world. The studio, which marks a departure from conventional high-rise studies, was created to explore the possibilities and implications of the new movement for tall building urban form…more

Nov 1, UK

In a program on the BBC, the safety of some of the UK’s high rise tower blocks has been put into question. ‘Inside Out West Midlands’ reported on possible fire safety failures in refurbished blocks within the West Midlands area. The main argument of the program was around the Decent Homes Program of improving the properties…more

Nov 1, Berlin

Hill International announced that it has received a contract from Swan Operations Ltd. to provide owner's representative services during construction of the Zoofenster skyscraper in Berlin, Germany. The 120-meter (394-foot) mixed-use tower, which will be one of the tallest buildings in the city, includes a five-star plus, 242-room Waldorf-Astoria hotel as well as commercial and residential units…more

Nov 1, London

Greenwich Borough Council in London has approved two new buildings to stand next to the O2, also known as the Millennium Dome, on the Greenwich Peninsula. Although most of the area around the Dome has yet to be built on, Plot N0301 is one of the key plots between it and the River Thames…more

Oct 31, Shenzhen

This skyscraper with a zig-zag channel cut into the facade is the winning design by Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas in a competition to design a new office building for Shenzhen. Lobbys, public spaces and gardens will be arranged along this diagonal void, which will also form a 200 meter-high atrium for the building’s entrance hall…more

Oct 31, Ho Chi Minh City

The Bitexco Group will organize an inauguration of the Ho Chi Minh City’s highest building – Bitexco Financial Tower with a screen light show. Bitexco Financial Tower is 262 meters tall with 68 floors including six floors of commercial area (more than 8,000 square meters) and a grade A office block with an area of 37,000 square meters…more

Oct 30, Rome

Results for the Rome 2010: Vertical Spa Competition have been revealed, and MORQ has been declared the second prize winner. The competition challenged designers to consider the “belonging” to Rome and design a high tower whose spirit encompasses the historical complexity of the Eternal City…more

Oct 30, Sydney

With Sydney’s population forecast to hit 6 million by 2030, the pressure on housing will be enormous. Four experts discuss where everyone might live. "WHAT is the city but the people?" asked William Shakespeare. But suburbs, and the separated houses that define them, were primarily designed to keep people apart…more

Oct 30, Zagreb, Croatia

It has a motley collection of towers, but things are gradually starting to look up with a series of new tall buildings, the latest of which is Tower 123 designed by local firm, 3LHD. With a trapezoidal footprint there is a structural diagrid on the body of the tower that allows the interior space to be completely free…more

Oct 30, Brisbane

Designed to be an important social and cultural hub for the city, the ground plane is dedicated to the public domain. The tower sits six story's above the ground, opening the street level to public use and open space. Four low-rise sticks housing mainly the council’s library, customer service center and other office space…more

Oct 29, Seoul

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture announced the groundbreaking of the solar-powered Federation of Korean Industries Tower in Seoul, which will incorporate an advanced photovoltaic wall system that reduces energy usage while generating power. The 800 foot-tall tower will feature one of the most efficient solar electric facades in the world…more

Oct 28, Mongolia

Blue Sky Tower was featured in the list of tallest buildings in the world recorded by The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), based in USA. The structure commands such magnificence and modern elegance that it provokes a sense of pride in anyone who takes a glance at it…more

Oct 28, Chicago

Chicago is facing another Second City moment: It soon will not be able to boast about having the tallest building in America. After nearly four decades, that title is set to be reclaimed by New York in 2013 when the 1,776-foot One World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan usurps the 1,451-foot Willis Tower…more

Oct 28, New York

The 250-foot condo with a garage off every unit—“just like a house in the suburbs” —seemes a flagrant abuse of the New Yorker code of honor to use public transportation, even if it’s an idling town car. And the stainless steel east-facing facade that houses the vertical parking lot presents a largely blank and uncommunicative face to the city. Architect Annabelle Selldorf toured 200 Eleventh Avenue…more

Oct 28

A new book by an urban agriculture visionary aims to change the way people think about farming, offering a look into a future where city skyscrapers—not rural fields—produce the world's food.In "The Vertical Farm," Dickson Despommier challenges the notion that plants should be grown in soil, advocating for developing and investing in big projects using hydroponic greenhouses and other indoor growing technology in cities…more

Oct 27, Abu Dhabi

It's been a long time coming but work could finally start on the 300 meter tall twin tower project in Abu Dhabi, the Wings Towers. As the centerpiece of the Najmat section of Reem Island, one tower will be residential with the other given over to office space. Under them will be two five-story podiums with an upper market shopping mall, cafes and restaurants…more

Oct 26, Shenzhen

Shenzhen based Jaeger and Partner Architects, Ltd. and Chicago based Saltans Architects Intl, Ltd have collaborated on the winning design solution for the NanFanG University of Science & Technology and New Shenzhen University Technology Park. The site for the competition is in the rapidly developing Nanshan Dashahe Innovation Corridor in Shenzhen…more

Oct 26, Kuala Lumpur

Mediterranean vernacular has developed all around the coast of the Mediterranean basin from the towns and villages of Morocco, Tunisia, Greece, Italy and Spain. Mont’ Kiara was conceived to capture the romance of renowned Mediterranean architecture but keeping the simplicity of modern architectural thinking…more

Oct 26, Charlotte

It's called the Duke Energy Center. It's owned by Wells Fargo & Co. It was built by Wachovia. But perhaps most significantly, the Duke Energy Center officially received its LEED-Platinum certification, recognizing it as the most sustainable skyscraper in America. Only the Duke Energy Center in Charlotte and Bank of America's One Bryant Park tower in New York have achieved the highest green-building rating…more

Oct 26, London

PRP Architects has been working on this redevelopment of the Vicarage Fields Shopping Center in the London borough of Dagenham and Barking. The scheme which sits only a couple of minutes walk from Barking Station takes in the regeneration of the 250,000 square meter shopping center and parking above, plus a modest new retail extension of 5,000 square meters with a landmark residential tower…more

Oct 26, Osaka, Japan

The French architect Dominique Perrault inaugurated a 28-story tower in Osaka, Jaban on behalf of the insurance company Fukoku. The outer glass is inspired by the bark of a tree, sometimes rough, sometimes smooth.  "The proposed tower was developed on the theme of tree trunk and roots." said French architect Dominique Perrault…more

Oct 26, Chicago

The Council has bestowed a new award on the Burj Khalifa. The new “Global Icon” award recognizes those very special tall buildings that make a profound impact, not only on the local/regional context, but on the genre of tall buildings globally. Innovative in planning, design and execution, the building must have influenced and re-shaped the field of tall building architecture, engineering, and urban planning…more

Oct 26, Houston

The 46-story tower under construction in downtown Houston has landed a huge new tenant — the BG Group plc natural gas company — that will give its name to the building. The new skyscraper, 811 Main Street, will be called BG Group Place. BG Group will relocate from the Galleria area to the new building in mid-2011, according to the Hines real estate firm, which announced the deal…more

Oct 25, London

British Land has decided to progress with the Leadenhall Building in London, better known as the Cheesegrater, following an agreement with the Canadian firm, Oxford Propreties. The 55,740 square meter development had been put on hold due to the recession, but following the  restarting of other projects in London, British Land had begun the search for a development partner to help spread the risk…more

Oct 25, Sheffield

The £40 million St Paul’s Apartments project was beset with troubles in 2008 when construction ground to a halt and the client’s parent company, City Lofts Inc, went into administration. Project architect and Conran managing director Tim Bowder-Ridger praised the contractor, Shepherd Construction, for “battling on” to finish the 32-story tower…more

Oct 25, Chile

A team of architectural students from the Universidad de Chile have designed a modern skyscraper that will do much more than just provide space for residential and commercial uses. The sustainable development, proposed for Chile, will purify the water of the Mapocho River, which flows directly through Santiago…more

Oct 23, Makkah

A giant clock tower constructed in Islam’s holiest city of Makkah as one of the world’s highest towers will be completed next month and will be linked to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The third face of the clock skyscraper, which was launched on a trial basis last month, has been completed while the fourth side will be finished in early November 2010…more

Oct 23, UK

Space is a major limiting factor in cities, and in most cases, the only way is up. But building skyscrapers comes with the age-old problem of powering up the entire building’s energy needs. With a concept design called the Wind Tower by British architects David Arnold and Alexa Ratzlaff, you won’t have to worry about energy, because it will all be coming from the wind…more

Oct 23, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

With the intention of framing a new cultural center within the iconic identity of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, STL has designed a complex program that will revive the cultural atmosphere of the city for the Kaohsiung Competition which is to be submitted by January 10, 2011. The project presents a unique opportunity to impact a large area of Kaohsiung with an ambitious complex program…more

Oct 22, Vietnam

A ground-breaking ceremony has been held for VietinBank Business Centre, Foster + Partners' first project in Vietnam. Bringing together the Bank’s headquarters, conference, hotel and leisure facilities, the landmark towers are strategically located between central Hanoi and the airport, demonstrating the emergence of Vietnam as an international financial centre…more

Oct 22, Roskilde, Denmark

The board of Danish waste to energy supplier KARA/Noveren signed a contract with Dutch Architect Erick van Egeraat  for the realization of their new incineration line at Roskilde, Denmark. Erick van Egeraat won the design competition for this incinerator in 2008 with his proposal seeking to embrace both the historic and industrial heritage…more