June 29, Makati, Philippines Gold and green don’t normally go together. However, such a combination can be found in a structure rising in the heart of the Makati CBD. The Zuellig building is more than just a green building in the making – it’s also the first commercial building in Makati to receive the LEED’s Gold certification from the USGBC... more

June 29, Winnipeg How do you define downtown revitalization? How about a CDN$75 million hotel/office/retail/parkade development across from the MTS Centre on the north side of Portage Avenue? All of the city's downtown development champions were on hand to unveil just such a project at the site of the old A&B Sound building... more

June 28, London Contractor Brookfield is understood to have been instructed to restart work on the stalled Pinnacle Tower in London. The 64-story project in Bishopsgate stalled just as the first poured concrete core rose out of the basement level. Cranes stood idle for much of this year on the site waiting for a full funding deal to be thrashed out... more

June 28, Shenzhen These projects are new building types, as their metaphoric titles proclaim, in sharp and challenging contrast to the usual developer typologies. The buildings hover above a large, open garden, freeing the ground-plane for public use. This concern for making open space for people to enjoy is a primary goal of Holl’s designs... more

June 27, Southampton, UK Students wanting to live in a planned 15-story tower in Southampton will be banned from bringing cars to the area. Councilors gave the go-ahead for the controversial £20 million “gateway” scheme in Swaythling which will house 348 student rooms and a new home for the Stoneham Lane Surgery alongside other “community” units... more

June 27, Edmonton For 48 years, the Bank of Montreal building has stood, a sleek proud sentinel of modern design. The building was designed by architect George Lord for leading Edmonton firm Rule Wynn and Rule. When it opened in 1963, it was the tallest building on Jasper Ave., a 10-story, US$2.5 million landmark... more

June 27, Mexico City The ceremony of laying the first concrete for Reforma 432 was recently held in Mexico City. Designed by Rojkind Arquitectos, Reforma 432 promises to be one of the most luxurious skyscrapers of all Mexico. The project unites several lots of land into a single lot stretching from Reforma Avenue to Tokio Street... more

June 27, Miami At a glance, the high-rise at 600 Brickell Avenue might seem to be just another sleekly modern downtown Miami office tower. But it is no ordinary building. From its heat-repelling "skin" to its ultra-efficient mechanical guts, it stands as an example of the latest and highest standards of environmentally friendly building design... more

June 26, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania A panoramic view of Dar es Salaam gives one the sense that it is fast becoming a modern city. The high-rise buildings in the central business district, which have come up during the last two decades or so, have completely changed the city’s landscape, emphasizing the serious nature of investment in real estate in the country... more

June 26, Toronto The iconic tower that has defined Toronto's skyline for over three decades celebrated its 35th birthday. For years, the tower was the world's tallest Telecommunications / Observation Tower, but was eclipsed by new constructions in Asia. The tower currently receives more than 1.5 million visitors per year... more

June 25, Cork, Ireland Launched in 2008 as a “beacon of light” for a “new dawn,” Cork’s Elysian Tower is one of Ireland’s tallest buildings, but is largely empty. “This will change everything,” proclaimed the advertising wrapped around one of Ireland’s tallest buildings during its construction in the boom years... more

June 25, Washington D.C. Work on the Tysons Tower – a 1.3 million-square foot mixed-use project – is set to begin early next year. The development will bring a new high-end office building, a 400-unit apartment tower and a four-star hotel to a site that used to be home to a Circuit City and now has a strip mall and parking lot... more

June 24, Zhangjiagang, China Atkins Shanghai has recently completed the design concept for a future skyscraper/ mixed-use center for the central business district of Zhangjiagang, China. The main building in the design is planned to be 300 meters in height, which will be the highest one in Zhangjiagang, and also the core center of the city... more

June 24, Austin, USA Thanks to a new zoning rule change approved by the Austin City Council, a new nearly 400-foot tall, 35-story mixed-use tower could occupy a spot just southeast of Fifth Street in downtown Austin. That tower would sit between the Monarch and Spring Condominiums, and be about 70 feet taller than the Monarch... more

June 24, Valletta, Malta Din l-Art Helwa has expressed concern about the modifications to plans in the MIDI project which envisage further construction of high-rise blocks. It claimed that this was being done without any public consultation and without communicating clearly the results of the EIA process... more

June 23, Burnaby, Canada Canada Safeway is a 17-hectare Burnaby property for multi-family residential development that includes high-rise buildings, despite the city’s assertion that no towers can be built on the site. Burnaby council issued a statement saying that the vision for the land is not in line with the city’s vision... more

June 23, Rotterdam Rotterdam’s soon-to-be-built Stadskantoor skyscraper is a vision of new urbanism – a low energy, mixed-use building that is user-friendly and responsive to the city’s architectural past. Designed by OMA, the pixelated project is based on a modular building system that can shift its shape as the building's needs change... more

June 23, Tennessee Pinnacle Tower has earned LEED gold certification, making it the first LEED-certified skyscraper in Tennessee. The US$105 million building has insulated windows on all the 29 floors, meshing with a high-efficiency heating-air conditioning system to reduce energy use... more

June 22, Melbourne To honor the city’s indigenous heritage, architecture firm ARM have designed a skyscraper that, when glimpsed at from certain angles, depicts a portrait of Aboriginal clan elder William Barak on its façade. Once the Carlton Brewery, the building will live a second life as a high-end residential apartment tower by 2014... more

June 22, New York New York is the proposed location for an energy-conscious 950-foot residential tower, designed by Solus4. Marketed as a “vertical neighborhood,” this skyscraping blade comprises 50 four-bedrooms-plus apartments, all of which will be serviced by a high-speed destination-selective elevator system... more

June 22, Baltimore Amtrak is seeking developers to build a multimillion-dollar complex of shops, offices or even a hotel by Penn Station that could trigger a much larger revitalization of the city’s Charles North neighborhood. Amtrak recently put out a call to developers to build on what is now a surface parking lot across the tracks from Penn Station.... more

June 22, Adelaide, Australia Plans for an AU$80 million hotel-office tower have raised fears it will overshadow a Flinders Street church. The 27-story building would be Adelaide's fourth highest at 100 meters high. The tower, designed by Dash Architects and backed by national conglomerate Toga Group, requires demolition of a rear church annex... more

June 21, Williamsburg, USA An effort to stop development at the Domino Sugar refinery has failed. It is claimed that the developer, along with the City Council, did not conduct the proper land use and environmental reviews. The plan for the 220,000-square foot project includes 2,200 housing units with 30% will be set aside for low to moderate income... more

June 21, Quebec After a slow start, the 49-story development built with US$250 million in pension money is nearly all leased. Two years into the construction of Eighth Avenue Place in Calgary, the tower was only 20% leased – and that's after hefty incentives such as two years' free rent on a 10-year lease were offered to tenants... more

June 21, Wuhan, China AS + GG Architecture has won an international competition to design Wuhan Greenland Center which, at 606 meters (1,988 feet), will likely be China’s third tallest building and the fourth tallest in the world when completed in about five years. Construction is scheduled to begin this summer in Wuhan... more

June 20, Bangkok Just 14 years ago, the Sathorn Unique was being built, destined to become one of the city’s fanciest residential addresses. Now, it is an abandoned building. Never completed, it remains as yet another “ghost tower” of Bangkok. A tangle of trees and vines are beginning to take over the lighter parts of this monolith... more

June 20, Lusaka, Zambia Gutted by a fire in the 1990s, the ominous form of Society House in Lusaka has stood derelict for the last 14 years. Recently, a groundbreaking ceremony was held at the Society House site in celebration of a US$100 million project which will see a consortium of South African and Zambian firms rejuvenate the property... more

June 20, Dubai The superstructure for Princess Tower has been completed. Princess Tower will become the tallest residential building in the world when it is completed. Interior finishing works are progressing as scheduled. The tower, which encompasses 101 floors, is scheduled to be completed in December 2011... more

June 20, Guangzhou A master plan by Goettsch Partners (GP) has been selected as the winning scheme in the design competition for a prominent site in the new Pazhou district in Guangzhou, China. Three urban parcels form the triangular site, which is planned for seven buildings totaling 428,000 square meters... more

June 20, Lehigh, USA "Architects may come and architects may go and never change your point of view, when I run dry I stop awhile and think of you." Simon and Garfunkel were "thinking" of the pioneering genius of modern architect Frank Lloyd Wright, when they wrote this lyric. But they might also have been singing about Harvey Wiley Corbett... more

June 19, China New satellite pictures show skyscraper townships completely empty in China. The most recent pictures of unused housing emerged as China announced plans to build 20 cities a year for the next 20 years. Despite pictures last year showing some of the reported 64 million empty homes, China has since erected more buildings... more

June 19, Winnipeg Manitoba Hydro Place is unique among North American office towers when it comes to the way it uses energy – or more accurately, the way it does not use energy. The precious commodity is, in fact, produced by the building. A 115-meter solar chimney helps circulate air throughout the Portage Avenue building... more

June 18, London In the heart of the City of London, the latest skyscraper to open its doors to tenants is Heron Tower. Visitors walk into a triple-height reception featuring a huge fish tank holding 70,000 liters of saltwater. It will be home to thousands of fish, including four bamboo sharks. The building is located on Bishopsgate, near Liverpool Street... more

June 18, Chicago Nearly three years after the financial crisis froze the skyline in place and transformed the grandiose dream of the Chicago Spire into an embarrassing hole in the ground, the city is gearing up for a high-rise apartment building boom – or boomlet, depending how big this much-ballyhooed surge of construction really turns out to be... more

June 17, Gold coast One of Australasia’s largest architecture groups is the creative mastermind behind the design of the two-tower Hilton Surfers Paradise, scheduled to open in September this year. The Buchan Group designed both towers as well as most of the interior... more

June 17 Last year may have been the most successful year in skyscraper history, but this year looks to be the most exciting, as Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed has reportedly approved a US$30 billion-plan to build the 1001 metre “mile high” Kingdom Tower... more

June 17, Chicago City planners approved a new 45-story apartment tower along Lake Shore Drive after its design was modified under aldermanic pressure. Some residents in Streeterville thought earlier versions of the building proposed for 500 N. Lake Shore Drive were too plain and boxy for a site that’s part of postcard Chicago... more

June 17, Stockholm Students of The Danish Institute for Study Abroad have taken first place in Chicago Architecture Today’s 2011 International Mock Firm Skyscraper Design Challenge with their skyscraper proposal for Stockholm. The competition called for a new skyscraper sited in Stockholm under the theme “Architecture that Works”... more

June 16, Dubai Set in the crowded avenues of Dubai, the supertall Index Tower has stood out to win the 2011 award for the Best Building in the Middle East and Africa, bestowed by the CTBUH. The skyscraper has multiple layers of heat-reducing elements but still allows daylight to penetrate deep into the interiors... more

June 16, New York Everything is big with Empire State Building, so upgrading the 20th century elevators running up and down its 102 floors without disrupting thousands of office workers, visitors and tourists each day is no small task. The tower and Otis Elevator are set to announce a partnership to replace and modernize the elevators... more

June 16, Makati, Philippines A 70-story condominium set to be built in Makati City may be the country's tallest residential condo in 2015, its developer said. Stratford Residences will be built to a height of 312 meters, taller than Century Properties' The Gramercy Residences, which will have a height of 302 meters when completed in 2012... more

June 15, Melbourne It’s fascinating to watch the evolution of modern commercial buildings as environmental concerns have been pushed into the forefront during the last decade or so. And now CK Designworks, an Australian design firm, is planning to build a vertical street in Melbourne. It will be 35 stories tall, with 5 community gardens... more

June 15, Tulsa, USA An iconic piece of the downtown Tulsa skyline is up for sale. The Mid-Continent Tower has been in receivership for over a decade and now bids are due by July 15. Whoever buys the tower will actually get two buildings in one, the original 16-story portion built in 1918 and the 20-story addition constructed in 1980s... more

June 15, Manchester, UK The Beetham Tower in Manchester is to be turned into a 554-foot sundial. The 47-story skyscraper, which dominates the city centre skyline, will be used as the “gnomon” (shadow-maker), while artists patrol the city and mark out shadows denoting the time. The experiment will take place on Midsummer’s day... more

June 15, Chicago Drawing national attention to the local campaign to stop Northwestern University from tearing down old Prentice Women's Hospital, the National Trust for Historic Preservation will name the concrete, clover-leaf shaped high-rise to its list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places... more

June 15, Aberdeen, UK Queen’s Cross and Harlaw Community Council want to know what the future holds for St. Nicholas House, a 1960s skyscraper which towers over the city center. The building is currently used by Aberdeen City Council employees who earlier this month began moving into their new headquarters at the Marischal College... more

June 14, Oklahoma City In the hustle and bustle of trying to keep up with the rapid changes downtown, it's easy to lose one's view of the big picture. Investments which total several billion dollars are currently underway in the Oklahoma City area. It's like a 10-ring circus, with the show consisting of hundreds of yellow vested construction workers... more

June 14, Huaxi, China Bloomberg's Stephen Engle reports from Huaxi, China, claimed to be the country's richest village. Huaxi's leaders took a farm community with bamboo huts and ox carts in the 1970s and transformed it into an industrial and commercial powerhouse where today many of its 35,000 residents live in mansions and most have a car... more

June 13, Chicago CME, the world’s largest futures exchange, is putting up for sale its 81-year-old Chicago Board of Trade Building. The company plans to sell and lease back the main tower and Annex building. The exchange will continue to own and occupy the east building, home to its financial product trading facilities... more

June 13, Christchurch The Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority say the 17-story Clarendon Tower must be demolished. Clarendon Towers has been one of the most problematic tower blocks in the central city since the earthquake earlier this year, with its risk of collapse posing a threat to dozens of surrounding buildings... more

June 13, Singapore Stepping out onto the balcony of a 24-story apartment, hopping into its large lap pool attached to the façade, and enjoying the view over the city of Singapore – this has just become reality for the residents of “The Marq.” The most expensive of these apartments in the skyscraper comes with a price tag of up to USD 31 million... more

June 13, Baku, Azerbaijan The construction of the Flame Tower skyscrapers opposite the Azerbaijani parliament will be completed next year. One of the skyscrapers, which will operate as a hotel, will be commissioned early next year. The other two buildings will be put into operation several months later... more

June 13, Doha According to Philip Oldfield, Research Coordinator for the CTBUH, the World Cup is likely to transform Doha. “I would not be surprised if more towers appeared as icons. This could be a combination of towers that are currently proposed, as well as brand-new projects... more

June 12, New York Nine tenants from the soon-to-be gone buildings that house the Mars Bar are going to get a pretty sweet deal. After they leave their apartments at the end of the month, they're going to return in two years time with the chance to purchase discounted apartments in the new 60-unit building going up on the site for $10 a unit... more

June 12, Beijing Edinburgh-based Sutherland Hussey has beaten off competition from Woods Bagot and Gerkan Marg & Partners (GMP) to design Beijing’s third tallest building, the Tongzhou Tower. Reaching a height of 288 meters, the mixed-use tower will contain residential, retail, offices, a hotel and a sky garden with views across the city... more

June 12, Abu Dhabi RAK Properties began delivery of commercial and residential units at Julphar Towers. The company said it has started sending letters to owners informing them of the delivery. The project, the tallest and most luxurious towers in Ras Al Khaimah, comprises two 43-story towers with top of the range facilities and amenities... more

June 11, New Jersey Manhattan rents are rising at a rapid pace – 7.4% in the first quarter of 2011 from a year earlier, according to Bloomberg.com. And average Manhattan rents increased to $2,808 per month from $2,616 from a year earlier. To make matters even more of a concern, landlords are cutting back on concessions and new leases... more

June 10 The CTBUH is pleased to invite students from around the world to take part in the 1st International Student Design Competition: Why Tall? It aims to shed new light on the meaning and value of tall buildings in modern society from the perspectives of green, safety, and humanity. Registration deadline: Friday, August 12, 2011... more

June 10, Beirut 3Beirut is the very first Foster & Partners project to break ground in Lebanon. Beirut has battled to overcome its war scars, but the new mixed-use residential and retail tower strives to be part of the city’s renewal as a tourism, commerce, retail and entertainment hub... more

June 10 City pollution is soaring in summer because vast swathes of paving and brick retain too much heat at night, and tall buildings block the cooling winds that should clear airborne pollutants, researchers say. Town planners across the world must change tactics to improve air quality... more

June 10, Chicago An investor has entered the legal fracas over a failed River North hotel development, a key step that could bring the 16-story project closer to completion or escalate the battle for control of it. Oxford Capital Group has acquired the construction loan on the unfinished building which was supposed to be the Staybridge Suites Hotel... more

June 9, Sydney Coca-Cola Place (previously known as ARK) has won the Property Council’s NSW Development of the year. This award is the equivalent of the “Oscars” for the property industry in Australia and is yet another for this 21-level iconic building north of Sydney, New South Wales in Australia... more

June 9, London Plans to build a 22-story residential tower block near Elephant & Castle in London have gained full consent. Campaigners from the nearby Ministry of Sound club had waged a campaign to block the Newington Causeway residential tower, fearing the influx of new residents would put its license at risk... more

June 9, China It has been estimated that China will need to build the equivalent of “a Chicago” every year until 2030 if it continues on its current path of rapid urbanization that will see some 250 million more people move from China's villages to its cities. The accompanying construction boom will suck up millions of resources... more

June 8, New York Switching all of a building's lighting to energy-sipping LEDs will save little electricity and money if it is not done properly, a lighting consultant warned about 2,000 commercial-building owners and managers at a packed forum at Energy Efficiency Summit 2011... more

June 8, San Jose When people hear New York they immediately think of the Empire State Building. San Francisco is the Transamerica Pyramid. Chicago is Willis / Sear’s Tower.  Internationally, the Petronas Towers is Kuala Lumpur. Dubai  is the world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa. So what do people think of when they hear San Jose?... more

June 8, London How do you adequately portray life in a high-rise building? London filmmaker Marc Isaacs found a rather unconventional answer to this question. He installed himself inside the elevator of a high-rise in London. And for ten hours a day, over two months, he rode up and down with the residents, with his camera pointing at them... more

June 8, Kathmandu, Nepal Kathmandu’s first high-rise apartment, the 16-story Orchid Tower, was recently inaugurated. Bookings for apartments have also been opened. “The project was started about two years ago with a view to addressing the needs of people who wish to live in central Kathmandu with a modern lifestyle”... more

June 8, New York In 1908, Moses King published King’s Dream of New York, which depicted what the city could look like in the future. The book portrayed a fantastic future for the city which included the creation of many levels of roadways and walkways to service pedestrians and automobiles that would occupy the future New York... more

June 7, China Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen are China’s three most competitive cities if taking the number of skyscrapers a city is any measure. The 2011 China Motian City List, using one year’s data collection, is topped by Hong Kong, with 58 towers. Shanghai, with 51, at second place and Shenzhen is third, with a total of 46... more

June 7, Calgary The iconic Bow skyscraper is looking for “best-in-class” businesses to step forward and fill the retail space in the building. Michael Brown, of Matthews Southwest which is overseeing the construction, confirmed that a request for proposals will gauge the level of interest and help decide who will ultimately find a home in the new tower... more

June 7, Dubai The building boom in Dubai sparked an unprecedented flow of creativity. But many of the designs are still on the drawing board, waiting for the economy to catch up with the architects' inspiration. Other proposed projects live on only in dreams... more

June 6, Hong Kong This is a fast city, where skyscrapers go up in a blink and neighborhoods are transformed overnight. It is also a rich city. The budget set aside for new cultural development would be the envy of any arts administrator: HK$ 21.6 billion dollars, or about US$ 2.8 billion... more

June 6, Manila A 31-story skyscraper named the Greenbelt Hamilton is property developer Megaworld’s latest offering in the Makati central business district. The P2.5 billion project, which is set to be completed and turned over in 2016, will offer a total of 425 studios and 2-bedroom suites... more

June 6, Sheffield It’s Sheffield’s tallest building and home to hundreds of people – but the 32-story City Lofts Tower does not have a connected fire alarm system. Each apartment has individual fire detection system but they are not linked and residents are not even made aware of a fire if it occurs elsewhere in the complex... more

June 4, Bangalore Bangalore’s carbon footprint has shot up to be the third highest in the country, triggered by a mix of poor governance, unbridled vehicular growth and mushrooming high-rise buildings. This scary picture of carbon emission is contained in a study conducted by the Energy and Wetland Research Centre... more

June 4, Lučany nad Nisou, Czech Republic Resembling a giant Jenga tower rising out of the landscape, Scholzberg Tower is a twisting structure constructed completely of timber. A collaboration with Honza Mach, the tower was built entirely by students using a stack system without the use of screws... more

June 4, Mumbai At a time when Air India is reeling under losses to the tune of a few thousand crores, one would imagine that the airline would be leveraging all its assets to lessen its debt burden. Instead of renting out unused portions of its iconic Nariman Point building, the airline is paying Rs 22 lakh each month for its upkeep... more

June 3, Denver Designed by Meridian 105 Architecture, V Tower is a residential high-rise positioned on top of a retail and parking base. The project establishes a new ground plane above this volume by providing residents with an urban park occupying the full dimensions of the site and building footprint, creating a sense that the tower is built at grade... more

June 3 Former CTBUH Chairman Leslie E. Robertson has been awarded the 2011 International Award of Merit in Structural Engineering by the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering. Robertson was chosen because of his unprecedented work in the realm of tall buildings... more

June 3, Bangkok Noble Development has launched its latest development, worth almost THB14 billion (US$462.35 million), in the bustling area of Ploenchit, Bangkok. The project is expected to appeal buyers looking for a home in the city. The project will consist of 4 buildings comprising 3 residential buildings of 50, 45, and 14 stories... more

June 3, Chicago The group that owns Willis Tower is testing investors’ appetite for a piece of the nation’s tallest building. The owners have hired two brokerages to market the 110-story building, either for an outright or a partial sale. “The market is extremely strong for high-quality, highly leased properties”... more

June 3, Toronto A 500-ton glass and steel residential skybridge high in the sky between two towers has all the markings of a bold engineering feat you might expect in Dubai. In fact, the unusual residences will grace the Toronto skyline next year. The 130-foot-long skybridge will link the towers at a dizzying 28 and 29-story height... more

June 3, Seoul Construction of Lotte Super Tower will begin with an aim of completion by late 2015. The concrete consolidation work for the skyscraper will begin in the next few days and continue through for the next 32 hours. In addition, 4,000 tons of iron bars each 51 meters in diameter and 50% thicker than ordinary ones will be used... more

June 3, St. Petersburg Gazprom is seeking approval to build its skyscraper on the outskirts of St. Petersburg after protesters won a battle to move the tower away from the city center. The project may be 15% to 25% higher or lower than the original design, depending on the engineering and geology of the new site... more

June 2, Flint, USA An architecture competition to repurpose the tallest building in Flint, Michigan yielded original concepts and raised questions about downtown development for the restructuring industrial town. The building is a 19-story tower, it fell into disrepair in the 90s: the previous mayor ordered it condemned and demolished... more

June 2, Manila Property developer Anchor Land Holdings expects to generate about P4 billion in sales for its latest project, a 56-story landmark development in Binondo area. Skysuites, the tallest building in historic Chinatown, will offer 346 residential units for principally Chinese-Filipino families... more

June 1, New York One of the most beautiful things in nature must surely be the sun rising and setting. When that sunset happens to align with a street grid, basking a city that never sleeps in a radiant glow of light, even busy New Yorkers would be pushed not to stop and marvel at its brilliance. It's that time of year again known as “Manhattanhenge”... more

May 31, Pécs, Hungary Europe’s tallest uninhabited building, Pécs’ Magasház (“Tall house”), will be demolished before the end of 2011. Earlier, plans to renovate the building were disrupted when it was found that the cost of demolishing the old structure instead and raising two new buildings in its place would be lower... more

May 31, New York The rental class has never had it so good. Due to a glut of new condo towers and the need to appease skittish lenders some developers have found a new use for the gilded, clubby preserves once meant for buyers who could afford the seven-figure price tags... more

May 30, Sydney The argument that Sydney does not need another green headland on the harbor alongside the new financial services industry high-rise hub planned for Barangaroo has stumped the project's lead architect, Richard Rogers. He sees the renewal of the area as “turning Sydney's back door into another front door”... more

May 28, Suizhong, China Seoul-based Yamasaki Ku Hong Associates Design Lab has shared their project “The Great Wall,” a complex in Suizhong, China. The project contains a typical apartment-factory and supporting retail composition where a retail podium anchors high-rise “apt-factory” towers... more

May 27, Oklahoma City The Devon Tower will soon be the tallest building in Oklahoma, surpassing Tulsa's 667-foot Bank of Oklahoma Tower. But the building is not finished growing. The impressive skyscraper is closing in on a planned height of 850 feet and 50 stories... more

May 27, London Mace, the construction firm behind the Shard, has uploaded an aerial video showcasing the nascent Southwark skyscraper. The video was shot in late March and once again emphasizes the tower’s dramatic profile on London’s skyline... more

May 27, Sofia, Bulgaria Few companies in Bulgaria have managed to prove the adage that a crisis presents opportunities, but drug maker Sopharma is among them. Among the large-scale construction projects announced or started just before the economic recession hit, Sopharma Business Towers is among the handful that were not put on ice... more

May 27, Germany Documents discovered in a German archive reveal the hitherto unknown colossal building projects that Adolf Hitler planned. He was obsessed to build everything higher, wider and deeper than anything in America. For Hamburg, he wanted to build a skyscraper that had to be taller than the Empire State Building... more

May 27, London Concept designs for an abstract new gateway to England’s capital have been presented for the second time. Affectionately termed “The Octopus” because of its undulating profile and multiple protrusions, the 49.5-meter high complex will enclose a number of offices, a public sky garden and advertising space... more

May 26, Tokyo Japan needs to stop building skyscrapers after the March earthquake traumatized office workers and residents in tall buildings, said Akira Mori, the president of the Mori Trust. The government should consider setting a standard height for new buildings at about 100 meters (328 feet)... more

May 26, South Korea Buzz and hype have surrounded China’s recent building boom, but to the east, South Korea is becoming the next hot spot for international architecture. South Korea is positioning itself to be the East Asian country that grows not only faster but also smartest... more

May 25, Panama City Hard Rock International plans to open the Hard Rock Hotel Panama Megapolis in December as its 16th property and its first in Latin America. The 66-story hotel will offer panoramic views of Panama city and Panama Bay. The hotel will have 1,499 guestrooms, including a 2,659-squarefoot Rock Star Suites... more