November 28, Seoul The Yongsan Landmark Tower was originally intended to be 100 stories and 500 meters high, but the developers have decided to add 11 more stories and 120 meters to make it Korea's tallest building. The developers also decided to change the name from Landmark Tower to Triple One standing for 111 floors...more

November 25, Rotterdam Open the Tower exhibits 676 models in a scale of 1:1000 designed by Eurohigh. The project was led by architect Winy Maas of MVRDV; Alexander Sverdlov and Ania Molenda of The Why Factory in collaboration with KRADS and supported by Lego and Arup...more

November 25, Sheffield, UK Once tower blocks were the answer to a housing crisis but many people came to hate them. With Sheffield's Park Hill estate being refurbished for its 50th birthday, can people learn to love them again, asks architect and broadcaster Maxwell Hutchinson...more

November 24, Melbourne Some residents fear Southbank could be the precinct that skyscrapers killed, with planning applications lodged for three towers – one almost as tall as Eureka Tower, Melbourne's tallest building. The proposed Queensbridge Tower would be the second-tallest building in Melbourne at 275 meters...more

November 24, Istanbul Construction is scheduled to begin next year on what its developers are billing as Europe’s tallest tower, even though it will not stand in Europe. The plans highlight the scope of Istanbul’s ambitions as Turkey’s commercial capital and as a growing power within the region. However, the exact height of the mixed-use building is not yet clear...more

November 23, Mecca It is Islam's most holy site and millions make a pilgrimage to the Grand Mosque at Mecca every year. But Mecca is also now being compared to Manhattan with the rising number of high-rise buildings that are dotting the skyline. Luxury hotels are being built by the local authority to provide accommodation for the rich visitors that come to the city...more

November 23, Brisbane There will soon be another shape on Brisbane's skyline with a new 37-story commercial tower on Queen Street. The Neighborhood Planning Committee voted in favor of the AU$590 million-application for 480 Queen Street – the site of the failed Trilogy tower project...more

November 23, Guangzhou The Guangfa Securities Headquarters is a 308-meter tall office building that will serve as the new landmark for the eastern portion of Guangzhou’s new central business district. Its orientation is rotated slightly from the orthogonal grid of the surrounding area to mark the site as a transformational pivot point of the urban fabric...more

November 23, Toronto Toronto’s skyline is moving incrementally toward the clouds, says the architect of downtown’s most recently proposed towering condo. A triangular plot of land near the foot of York Street is designated to be the site of a proposed residential skyscraper soaring 75 stories...more

November 22, New York Last spring, developer Related became disenchanted with the design of the Hudson Yards first phase, the gargantuan project on top of a train storage yard along the Hudson River. The new rendering, recently unveiled, describes a much different composition. The 30-story middle building is replaced by two jagged towers...more

November 22, Abu Dhabi Sun and Sky Towers in Abu Dhabi won the GCC Residential Project of the Year Award at the Construction Week Awards 2011. The 74-story Sky Tower and 65-story Sun Tower are the two tallest buildings in the Shams Gate District, a cluster of eight towers located at the entrance of Shams Abu Dhabi on Reem Island...more

November 22, Barangaroo, Australia There may be taller buildings in Australia, but with its vast footprint, the 49-story C3 tower at Barangaroo is likely to be the country's largest office building in terms of floor space. At 205 meters tall with 115,291 square meters of floor space, the commercial tower will be the tallest building in Barangaroo.. more

November 21, Singapore It may sound odd, but since the 1960s Singapore has been slowly remaking itself as a garden city. Tiny, dense, hyper-urban and constantly clawing back land from the sea to accommodate its booming center, the city-state has nevertheless seen green tentacles creeping into every corner... more

November 21, New York The New York Tower Museum is intended to celebrate the cosmopolitan, urban and global character of New York City. It is a high-rise monument located at the tip of Manhattan on a pier projecting from Battery Park. The building would facilitate various exhibitions, with the emphasis on the 1970’s memorabilia.. more

November 21, Warsaw Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen have been named as winners of a design competition for a high-rise office project in the center of Warsaw, which will replace the Ilmet Office building. The Jury was impressed with the high quality and innovation evident in its urbanistic, architectural and technical concepts... more

November 21, Brooklyn It’s been more than a year since there was any sign that Avalon Bay still plans to build a second Downtown high-rise – a tower that, at 58 stories, would be the tallest in the borough. The trust recently bought a building on Willoughby St, adding another parcel to the seven assembled for the development... more

November 21, Motherwell, UK Crowds lined the streets as one of Lanarkshire’s best-known landmarks was brought to the ground by 100 kilograms of explosives. After months of meticulous planning, the 17-story Glencairn Tower block in Motherwell toppled to the ground in a spectacular “blowdown” which sent a plume of dust into the air.. more

November 21, Miami A new Miami apartment block incorporates a luxury previously available only to those who lived in freestanding homes: a garage adjacent to the front door. No matter what floor of the 57-story Porsche Design Tower at Sunny Isles Beach, Miami, you live on, you will be able to park your car next to the front door... more

November 20, Noida, India It's been a year of the NCR's rise so far. The record for the region's tallest building has been broken several times over, even if only on paper. Just weeks after a construction firm announced plans to build Delhi's first skyscraper, comes the news that the region's tallest will top 300 meters... more

November 19, South Korea What do the 68-story Northeast Asia Trade Tower, which stands tall in Songdo International City, the 123-story Lotte Super Tower, whose construction is underway in Seoul, and the 108-story WBC Solomon Tower, whose construction will soon begin at Centum City in Busan, have in common?... more

November 19, Abu Dhabi International Tower, the largest commercial tower at ADNECs Capital Centre is the first to complete and ready for occupation with all regulatory approvals secured. The Taking Over Certificate was issued last month by the project’s architect Woods Bagot to the main contractor Group 3 Engineers Contractors... more

November 18 Adrian Smith is the maestro of supertall buildings. The architect based in Chicago worked as a lead designer with SOM on 4 of the 11 tallest towers in the world, including the Burj Khalifa. Now his firm, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, is designing the 1-kilometer-tall Kingdom Tower in Jeddah... more

November 18, Foshan, China A new 325-room hotel in the booming city of Foshan has been announced for 2014, which, at 236 meters tall, will become the city’s tallest building. Foshan is a centuries-old but fast-growing city in China’s Guangdong Province and has long been famous for its furniture, porcelain, and martial arts industries... more

November 18, Boston The board of the Boston Redevelopment Authority approved construction of what would be Boston’s tallest residential building, a 47-story tower at Copley Place with 318 condominiums above a retail base that houses Neiman Marcus store and other shops... more

November 18, London South African billionaire Nathan Kirsh could soon be making a comeback to the City as the new owner of the Tower 42 skyscraper. Kirsh’s office confirmed that his GBP 285 million bid for one of London’s tallest buildings, Tower 42, has been successful... more

November 17, Brooklyn Forest City Ratner recently unveiled the design for what would be the world’s tallest prefabricated steel structure, a 32-story residential building in Brooklyn at the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Dean Street in the US$4.9 billion Atlantic Yards project... more

November 17, Yerevan, Armenia It is very likely that Armenian capital Yerevan’s tallest building, proposed for 50 stories, will be built at the heart of the city, nearby Moscow Movie Theater and Golden Tulip Hotel. A half-state-run Iranian company wants to construct the tall building in downtown Yerevan where it will take the name “Persia Tower”... more

November 17, San Francisco The infamous winds that gust through downtown San Francisco streets, overturning kiosks and sometimes toppling pedestrians, will help to power a revolutionary skyscraper set to open next fall – and could pave the way for a new world market for energy-generating wind turbines in new buildings... more

November 16, Dubai Construction is to begin in January on a one-kilometer tall tower in Jeddah, including a six-story "sky palace" on the 158th floor, the lead architect says. Most of the permits are in place for the US$1.2 billion (Dh4.40 billion) Kingdom Tower. "The project is moving rapidly"... more

November 16, Shenzheni The winning design of an international architectural competition, “The Two Towers,” was recently announced. The team selected to design this new Shenzhen landmark – comprising of 100,000 square meters in total. As the competition title suggests, the project is comprised of two towers, the CDB Tower and Minsheng Financial Tower... more

November 16, Toronto You see them all over the world. More than a billion of us live in high-rises. But most of these low- and middle-income buildings are now aging and falling into disrepair. Could life in the global high-rise be different? Take an interactive journey through a virtual landscape, where the power of imagination transforms spaces – and lives... more

November 16, Dubai According to some of the world's most respected news sources, it is the crowning glory of the world's tallest building: a mosque on the 158th floor of the Burj Khalifa, and the highest on Earth. The BBC reported it in a story on the opening of the Burj on January 4 last year. But it has turned out to be no more than a tall tale... more

November 16, Boston Developer kicked off construction of a US$220 million-residential tower near Downtown Crossing. The New York City-based developer and its Boston partners started work on the 15-story Hayward Place that will open in about two years. The project will create 450 construction jobs... more

November 15, Nijmegen, The Netherlands The city of Nijmegen in The Netherlands has been working on a scheme to renovate and renew their housing infrastructure. Their master plan has included the Tower Hatert, a 13-story tower with apartments built above a community health center located at the ground level... more

November 15, Chicago The Clare at Water Tower, a residential high-rise in the Gold Coast, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, its developer said recently. The Franciscan Sisters of Chicago Service Corp. said it chose to go to bankruptcy court in an attempt to restructure its debt after defaulting on bonds in September... more

November 15, Tokyo Tokyo Sky Tree, a new broadcast tower in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, will be recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's tallest free-standing structure.  The 634-meter tower reached its final height in March, surpassing the 600-meter Canton Tower in Guangzhou, it will be recorded in Guinness World Records 2012... more

November 15, New York For more than a decade, a New York developer has sought to build a glass skyscraper over the Port Authority Bus Terminal, transforming an eyesore at the west end of Times Square into an architectural showpiece. But last week, the developer announced that it had lost its investor... more

November 14, London A leading architect has launched a scathing attack on Government planning reforms and warned that large parts of the country could resemble Los Angeles. Lord Rogers claims that under the plans Britain's biggest cities could merge into one enormous urban sprawl... more

November 14 It took crews constructing the Empire State Building only one year to build the 1,250-foot tall structure. When 1WTC is completed in 2014, it will have taken more than eight years to complete. As towers are increasingly higher they present a host of structural and engineering challenges... more

November 14, Moscow Despite the freezing cold and sharp winds, 257 meters above the ground construction work on the 66th floor of the east tower of the Federation Tower complex is underway. The ambitious project at Moskva-City is slated to become Europe's tallest skyscraper, outdoing the current leader - the Commerzbank building in Frankfurt... more

November 14, Singapore Singapore's newest skyscraper in the Central Business District, Asia Square Tower 1, is the latest addition to the up-and-coming Marina Bay skyline. The 43-story tower, located in the premium commercial district, took three years to build and is one of the latest green buildings to be built in Singapore... more

November 13, Hamburg Work has stalled on the Elbe Philharmonie building in Hamburg following a series of technical difficulties, leaving the future of the project in jeopardy. The contractor has stopped work on four areas of the building – the single-skin glass façade, the steel roof support structure, the 82 meter-long escalator and the building services... more

November 12, Oklahoma Not long ago, anyone in Oklahoma warning of a “real” earthquake would have been called Chicken Little. Should a Chicken Little and his sky-is-falling act be on standby downtown at the Devon Energy tower construction site? After all, while it will be 50 stories when finished, the skyscraper is still under way, still in motion... more

November 12, Osaka What happens when an irresistible force (the Hanshin Expressway) meets an immovable object (stubborn landowners)? You get the Gate Tower Building in Osaka, Japan, a hybrid highway and skyscraper that revamps the exit ramp and redefines telecommuting with a dash of “Lost in Translation”... more

November 12 When the Shard opens for business next year, it will dominate the London skyline. Europe’s tallest skyscraper will stand at 310 meters above the Thames. That’s not the most staggering statistic about it though. When it’s fully occupied, 36 liter/second sewage will be flowing out of it. That is 3.1 million liters per day... more

November 11, Kuwait City A celebration for finishing the construction phase of the main structure of the much awaited Al-Hamra Tower took place in Sharq, at the premises of the tower, with a huge lighting display. The special lighting was turned on after the countdown clock on the huge trapezoidal LED display reached zero right at 7:00pm... more

November 11 Skyscraper façades were arguably simpler and easier to clean when their windows opened. Indeed, façade cleaning prior to 1950 primarily meant window washing, which was carried out by a dedicated crew of workers who would strap themselves into leather harnesses and hook themselves to the sides of skyscraper windows... more

November 11, New York Today, of the four major office towers currently rising in New York, SOM is the architect for three of them: Boston Properties’ 250 West 55th Street; Extell Development’s International Gem Tower; and, of course, One World Trade Center, the 1,776-foot skyscraper going up in Lower Manhattan... more

November 10, London The Walkie-Talkie will be the first of the City's trophy towers to hit the market in 2014, helping developer profit from an even bigger squeeze on space in the Square Mile. Bleaker economic prospects mean there will be 30% less new space in the City in 2013 and 2014, so there is no rush to sign up tenants in advance... more

November 10, Long Beach The Long Beach Planning Commission is going big with the Long Beach Downtown Plan, a master plan four years in the making that could enable up to 5,000 new residential units, 1.5 million sq ft of office space, 400,000 sq ft of retail space, 96,000 sq ft of restaurants, and about 1,000 new hotel rooms in the downtown area... more

November 9, New York Already behind the controversial MoMA Tower and a new Bryant Park tower, perpetually under-the-radar real estate firm Hines Interests is undertaking another major project, the New York Observer reported in a lengthy profile, by reviving the stalled 56 Leonard Street condominium project in Tribeca... more

November 9, Moscow Never underestimate the power of a giant amusement park ride to draw visitors to your city. Or at least, that's what the Russian government is counting on. In an effort to bump up their tourism numbers from 4 million to 7 million each year, Moscow is considering building the world's tallest Ferris wheel in the Russian capital... more

November 9, Jacksonville, USA Ten years after the Great Fire of 1901, Jacksonville had become a booming metropolis.  Over the past decade, the city had increased in population by 103%, when John Joseph Heard, an Arcadia-based capitalist, decided to move to and invest in Jacksonville's flourishing market... more

November 9, Kuala Lumpur Architect Ole Scheeren has designed a skyscraper for Kuala Lumpur that will have a four-story high tropical garden slicing through its middle. The Angkasa Raya tower will be 238 meters high and is to be situated alongside the Petronas Twin Towers, which were the tallest buildings in the world between 1998 and 2004... more

November 9, San Diego Sydney has its opera house, St. Louis its arch, and Paris the Eiffel. San Diego can match those iconic images with “Wings of Freedom,” a 500-foot high sculpture shaped like wings on the downtown waterfront. The Midway aircraft carrier museum proposed the concept as part of a US$68 million-development on the adjacent Navy Pier... more

November 9, Brisbane Brisbane's tallest building is expected to spring up from the site of a failed CBD tower. Brisbane City Council has approved a 90-story hotel and residential building that, on completion, will probably remain the city's tallest, and a 34-story commercial building to be known as 111+222... more

November 8 When the Empire State Building was constructed in 1931, it stood 1,250 feet tall. The famous skyscraper was the world's tallest building and held that title for more than 40 years. Designing these massive skyscrapers is a huge challenge for structural engineers... more

November 8, Houston After almost two years of planning, construction on a 20-story office building in the Galleria area will begin within a few weeks. Skanska USA Commercial Development has received a building permit to develop the tower on 2 acres across from the Water Wall near Williams Tower... more

November 8, Chicago The Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat sought out a deep understanding of sustainability and contextualization in selecting the Best Tall Building of 2011. This year’s worldwide winner, while hardly as tall as last year’s winning Burj Khalifa, went to the KfW Westarkade tower in Frankfurt Germany... more

November 7, Surat, India A 30-story building resembling a stack of books placed unevenly on each other will come up at Kharvanagar Junction in Surat. "It is an iconic building and the first to be developed by the local self government in the state. Called "The Hub," the building will come up on the 21,000-square meter land at the cost of Rs 500 crore... more

November 7 A view is something to be desired. A room with a view, a sea view, river view, panoramic view, a penthouse with city skyline views; each of these can hugely increase the value and the meaning of a property.  But what of the rest of us, who do not have grounds? We rely on views from public spaces to understand the city... more

November 6, Delhi Raheja Developers announced a joint venture with Dubai-based Arabtec Construction to start development of a 56-story housing project, Raheja Revanta, in Gurgaon.  Later, the Raheja Phoenix, a 54-story tower in Delhi with a skyclub and a helipad will be built. The projects will be completed in three to four years... more

November 5, New York The architect of One World Trade Center has finally devised a way to clad the concrete base of the tower in shimmery glass. Now, the base will be covered with glass louvers that are set at different angles on the base and lit from behind, creating an inviting atmosphere that would also reflect the nearby 9/11 Memorial... more

November 5, Detroit The Broderick Tower, which is currently undergoing more than USD 50 million in renovations, is expected to be ready for tenants in September 2012. When work is finished, the building will house 33 “sky top penthouses” for up to USD 5,000 a month, more than 90 apartments and studios, and four stories of commercial space... more

November 5, Hong Kong A controversial plan by CLP Holdings to redevelop the site of its historic head office in Ho Man Tin into high-rise residential blocks will go ahead despite opposition from conservation groups and nearby residents. The Town Planning Board gave the green light for the power giant to proceed with the project... more

November 4 According to the Skyscraper Museum, in 2007 there existed 35 buildings – completed or on the boards – that fit the height requirement under the supertall category. Twelve of those projects dropped off the census as unrealized, but another 26 have been added for the current total of 49... more

November 4, Portland Construction on the unfinished Park Avenue West Tower, Portland's most prominent bruise left by the economic downturn, will not start up again for at least two more years. But its developers say the long-stalled tower will start to rise at the end of 2013... more

November 4, Nashville Tony Giarratana – arguably the city’s most high-profile developer and unarguably its king of skyscraper projects — has revealed plans for three new towers, including an office building that would rise up to 700 feet and easily rank as Nashville’s tallest and most cutting-edge structure... more

November 4, Yokohama Nissan is lending some battery power to the local 106-meter tall Japanese landmark in Yokohama, which is located about 27 miles south of Tokyo. In fact, the tower's night twinkle will be powered by a “Nissan Leaf”, channeling electricity to the tower from its batteries via a connected power control system... more

November 3, Tigne, Malta Local NGO welcomes scrapping of plans for Tigne Point high-rise tower and says applications for high-rise development should not be considered until government policy is created. The application for the multimillion-dollar project had been withdrawn following objections by Sliema residents... more

November 3 Developing the required flow through the stream-producing nozzle is crucial to the overall success of any fire attack. A high-rise water delivery operation, because of the restrictions in the building system itself, can significantly increase the required pressures needed just to get to the handline to create a sufficient fire stream... more

November 3, San Juan, Philippines The Ortigas & Company recently launched Viridian at Greenhills, its first high-rise residential tower located within the popular Greenhills Shopping Center area in San Juan. The tower will soon rise at a location declared to be the “belly of the dragon,” according to Chinese Feng Shui... more

November 2, Honolulu Pacifica Honolulu recently held an opening ceremony and blessing and residents will soon get their keys to move in. The finishing touches are still being put on Pacifica Honolulu just days before the first residents move in. Those residents include 120+ first time home buyers who were able to get units at reduced rates... more

November 2, Dubai Tameer’s Elite Residence in Dubai Marina has reached its final height of 381 meters, almost 60 meters taller than the Eiffel Tower – and matching the peak of the Empire State Building. The developer recently completed the roof structure and mast which has revealed the final appearance to this prominent tower... more

November 2, San Fransisco As it approaches its 40th birthday, San Francisco’s iconic Transamerica Pyramid has scored LEED Platinum certification. The Pyramid first achieved LEED Gold status in 2009. The LEED Platinum reflects a 70% recycling rate; a 20% water use reduction; greener construction materials and other eco upgrades... more

November 2, Brooklyn Miami-based Oppenheim Architecture+Design has won an international design competition for a hotel in Brooklyn at the Williamsburg Bridge. The proposed 440-foot-tall tower joins a recently announced 40-story rental tower designed by FX Fowle nearby as the latest high-rise planned for the neighborhood... more

November 2, Helsinki Finland is not renowned for tall buildings; you will look in vain for glass and steel skyscrapers rearing up from a "central business district" in Helsinki, even though such things exist just over the water in Tallinn. Perhaps this is one reason why any plans that include buildings of height always seem to generate great interest... more

November 1, Toronto The Royal York Hotel, still one of Toronto's grandest structures, is yet another example of that old adage that nothing comes without a cost. Completed in 1929, the structure that would dominate the Toronto skyline for 35+ years actually replaced a beautiful building in its own right: the Queen's Hotel... more

November 1, New York Related Cos., the New York developer, plans to start construction of a 51-story skyscraper on Manhattan’s Hudson Yards site by mid-2012 with handbag maker Coach Inc. as the main occupant. Signing the first tenant for the 13 million square-foot (1.2 million square-meter) development “kick- starts” the project... more

November 1, Taipei NL Architects recently unveiled plans for an energy-generating "Tower of Power" in Taiwan that utilizes 600 wind turbines to produce 6 MW of electricity for the city. In addition to its renewable energy generating capabilities, the landmark tower would provide an observation deck, meeting space, office space, a museum, and parking... more

October 31, Miami A few of the ghosts of Miami’s real estate boom still linger above the city as grayed, abandoned towers, frozen in mid-development poses. These concrete skeletons are mired in lengthy legal battles, abandoned by vanished developers or simply waiting out the market so that they can be relaunched or repurposed in better times... more

October 31, Tokyo Standby generators and batteries have been used extensively in industry, usually as a safeguard to keep vital production lines rolling. However a radical plan just unveiled by the Japanese Government for a standby city for Tokyo takes this concept to a whole new plane... more

October 31, Lexington, USA When Jeanne Gang was brought on board to help reimagining a stalled tower in downtown Lexington, the entire community’s spirits were uplifted by the bold collaboration proposed by the Chicago-based architect. But developer Dudley Webb recently announced that Gang will no longer be involved with the mixed-use project... more

October 31, Moscow Built by Stalin as symbols of victory and a new era of Soviet power, the colossal Seven Sisters skyscrapers in Russia's capital still impress amid newer high-rises. The first skyscraper was completed in 1949, and all seven were completed within 10 years... more

October 31, Chicago The CTBUH is vigorously advancing its mission – to help upgrade skyscraper production by offering better design tools and standardizing practice worldwide. In a fundamental shift, the 42-year-old CTBUH is engaging in research, including a $2-million fire study that will culminate in a real building burn... more

October 30 Across-wind loads and effects have become increasingly important factors in the structural design of super-tall buildings and structures with increasing height. Although researchers have investigated the problem for over 30 years now, the research achievements of across-wind loads and effects are still not satisfactory... more

October 30, Ann Arbor Downtown Ann Arbor’s flashy new student high-rise apartment complexes are wielding a wide assortment of lavish amenities in a fierce competition to attract tenants. With two new high-rise apartment towers expected to open in 2012, the battle for leases has kicked into high gear... more

October 29, Croydon, UK Croydon is set to get its own "twin towers" after plans for a 55-story skyscraper were unveiled. The 200-meter building – which is just 35 meter shorter than Canary Wharf – has been earmarked for One  Lansdowne Road. It would be a short distance away from the massive 54-story Menta development... more

October 28, Washington D.C. The North Bethesda suburb of Washington D.C. is currently witnessing a flurry of commercial and residential development, a result of the White Flint Sector Master Plan passed by the Montgomery County Council in March of 2010 which permitted an increase in density for the area... more

October 28, Chicago The new vertical campus of Chicago’s Roosevelt University promises to give the Loop-based institution higher visibility on the city's higher education scene. The building began construction two years ago and is slated for completion in March. At 32 stories, it will be the second highest academic building in the nation... more

October 28, Buenos Aires Puerto Madero has always been a Buenos Aires neighborhood full of superlatives, some grounded in reality and others bordering on urban legend. Now the newest high-rise-kid-on-the-dique will definitely stir the anti-development pot and set a record for the tallest building in Buenos Aires... more

October 27, Honolulu A $500-million planned development project calls for erecting a 650-foot Honolulu skyscraper that would be taller than any building in the state. The Hawaii Community Development Authority will begin soliciting proposals to build a mixed-use development that will include affordable housing and condos... more

October 27, Beijing CThe much-delayed but striking steel, concrete and glass headquarters for Chinese state television is expected finally to fully open next year, said Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, whose firm designed the building. The skyscraper, as a "loop folded in space", is two towers sloped together and joined by a gravity-defying canopy equivalent to 80 stories in height... more

October 27, New York One Madison Park, the nearly finished 50-story glass tower that become a symbol of the go-go real-estate market before entering the dark world of foreclosure and bankruptcy court, may soon come back to life, saved by the strength of the Manhattan property market... more

October 26, Gaborone, Botswana The I-Towers, which stand opposite the new High Court at Gaborone’s new Central Business District, is intended to be the tallest building in the Botswana. “The project is intended to enable individual businesses to purchase their own piece of the action in a building of the highest quality"... more

October 26, Ottawa The city is happy to see thousands of people lining up to buy new downtown condominiums, but it doesn’t have a plan for supplying the amenities that make for nice neighborhoods, the city council’s planning committee heard recently as it debated a new high-rise at 346 Gloucester St... more

October 26, Austin, USA Construction will begin soon on a new 16-story apartment building at 2400 Nueces St., the former site of UT’s Wooldridge Hall. The $69 million building, set for completion by the summer of 2013, will house student apartments, UT’s International Office, retail space, and more than 500 parking spaces... more

October 26 The energy efficiency of a supertall building is superior to the equivalent number of low-rise buildings, according to Adrian Smith of AS + GG Architecture. “Building enclosures are reduced when building tall. Imagine that a 400-meter tower of 100 floors will have one ground floor and one roof in addition to all of the walls... more

October 26, Seattle The owner of downtown Seattle's well-known and well-loved – but mostly empty – Smith Tower has defaulted on the loan it took out when it bought the landmark in 2006.The default was recently revealed in a news article announcing the sale of the US$42.5 million mortgage... more

October 26, Christchurch The earthquake-damaged PricewaterhouseCoopers Centre in Christchurch’s Armagh St will soon be demolished. “The extent of structural and other damage, incurred from the earthquakes of September 2010, February 2011 and June 2011, is such that the building is not economically repairable”... more