February 27, Wuhan, China Authorities in central China's Hubei province are mulling whether to add height to a building project, a move that would make it the tallest building in China upon its completion. The Eco Tower Wuhan Center was originally planned to reach 606 meters, but local officials want to create a “landmark” building. ...more

February 27, Dublin, Ireland The redevelopment of Dublin’s iconic Liberty Hall building is moving forward, after local officials approved demolition of the existing building, the 17-story Eden Quay tower. The new tower includes offices, an auditorium and rooftop heritage area. If it passes an expected appeal, the new structure will be about 100 meters high.....more

February 26, Astrakhan, Russia A high-rise block of apartments has collapsed in the Russian southern city of Astrakhan, following an explosion. Eleven people remain missing, while seven people with injures have been rescued from the rubble. A video posted on YouTube captures the moment the building collapsed. ....more

February 26, Reston, USA The Virginia city of Reston is primed to get a new gateway in the form of a 23-story mixed-use project being planned for Reston Parkway by RTC Partnership. The proposed building’s height has already been approved by the county and would be taller than anything currently in Reston Town Center.....more

February 26, Shanghai, China Shanghai will restrict the construction of large foundation pits for new building projects in an effort to reduce land subsidence hazards, city construction officials said. Subsidence takes place when groundwater is pumped out, which happens for pit construction for the foundations of high-rises....more

February 27, St. Louis, USA A documentary explores the rise and fall of Minoru Yamasaki’s groundbreaking Pruitt-Igoe project in St. Louis.  The design for the 57-acre project was meant to set a standard for modern urban architecture. Instead the project was demolished after only 20 years.....more

February 27, Tel Aviv Spanish photographer Victor Enrich has manipulated his own architectural photography to create impossible and fantastical structures. One image shows a tower block that splits into two as though being unzipped. Other images suggest a vertical motorway and a seaside apartment block with balconies abnormally stretched to face the water.....more

February 25, Arlington, USA The first new building proposed under the Crystal City Sector Plan reached Arlington’s site plan review committee last week. The 24-story office building, complete with a unique cantilevered roof, would replace an older government office building that’s nearly vacant....more

February 24, Tokyo By 2050 people could step into an elevator and travel into space. Japanese company Obayashi Corporation recently announced its plans to build an elevator that would reach 36,000 kilometers above the ground, transporting up to 30 people at a time to a space-based work station...more

February 23, London A proposed 35-story skyscraper will loom over west London like a "weak rip-off of the Shard," neighbors claim. The 360-foot tower will stand almost as tall as St Paul's Cathedral, overshadowing hundreds of homes by day in North Kensington and causing light pollution at night, they charge...more

February 23, Chicago Skyscraper junkies now have a new place on the web to search for fun facts, read technical papers, and settle arguments. The Skyscraper Center launched by the CTBUH is an interactive global database offering detailed profiles and images on every completed building in the world taller than 200 meters...more

February 23, Ho Chi Minh City The 40-story BIDV Tower planned for Ho Chi Minh City is one of several high-profile skyscraper projects in Ho Chi Minh City delayed or cancelled due to a dramatic rise in interest rates. Some construction sites have been turned into temporary car parks by the developers...more

February 23, Toronto The developer behind a proposed 34-story hotel-condominium project in Toronto’s Distillery District still wants to proceed with the plan, despite the city’s concerns about its height and appropriateness for the historic area. The project, estimated to cost up to $130 million, would be the first hotel in the popular tourist area...more

February 22, Bilbao The Iberdrola Tower, a 41-story office skyscraper built as the headquarters for the Basque utility Iberdrola, was officially inaugurated in Bilbao this week. The 165-meter tower is the tallest building in Basque country and will join the Guggenheim Museum as one of the city’s architectural landmarks...more

February 22, Atlantic City A Philadelphia developer wants to build a 30-story, 124-unit condominium complex on a one-acre off-boardwalk site in Atlantic City. The most-eye-catching featuring would be a robotic parking system, which the designers say is already in use in other projects in New Jersey...more

February 22, Jeddah The plan to build the tallest tower in the world in Jeddah has been given the final clearance by local authorities, according to Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, chairman of Kingdom Holding Company. The SR4.6 billion Kingdom Tower will rise to more than 1,000 meters and serve as the centerpiece of the Kingdom City development...more

February 21, Shanghai Large cracks in the pavement around the Shanghai Tower are nothing to worry about, according to the builders of what will become China's tallest skyscraper. An independent team of experts has been closely monitoring the surrounding structures since construction started on the 632-meter tower...more

February 21, Karachi Ceremonies were recently held in Karachi to inaugurate Ocean Towers, which will be the tallest tower in Pakistan. The tower is 393 feet high and will house a shopping mall, corporate offices and a business club. The 28-floor skyscraper will pass the 381-feet tall MCB Tower as the tallest building in the country...more

February 21, Moscow A new documentary captures the construction process Federation Tower, the Moscow skyscraper which will someday be the tallest building in Europe. The project, launched in 2003, has been slowed by the owner’s turmoil and the global financial crisis, leading to fears the tower would never be completed...more

February 21, Hollywood Developer CIM Group is ready to break ground on a 260-foot tall tower in Hollywood, after six years of legal battles. Local activists complained the developer was given a “sweetheart deal,” including height variances, zoning changes and millions of dollars in loans...more

February 20, Belfast A Ballymena cleaning firm hired a special abseiling team to ensure that thousands of windows on Ireland’s tallest skyscraper are sparkling clean. The company brought in trained cleaners to clean the windows on the 28-story Obel Tower in Belfast, where high winds can create problems for the window cleaners...more

February 19, Cape Town The City of Cape Town has called on residents to comment on the draft of its new policy for tall buildings. Capetonians will be able to review the policy during the month of March. The city's Kylie Hatton said the draft seeks to create guidelines for any construction of new skyscrapers in the city...more

February 19, Calgary Calgary’s biggest office tower project, The Bow, is nearing completion. Tenants are expected to begin moving in to the iconic 58-story skyscraper in the next few weeks. Energy companies Cenovus and Encana will be the primary occupiers of the 2 million square feet of office space...more

February 19, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania The muddy houses with rusty corrugated iron sheet roofs of Dar es Salaam's Kariakoo district have been replaced by high rise buildings. And now firefighters are worried that the district is unprepared for an emergency. Safety standards have been ignored and building regulations are outdated, they say...more

February 18, London Perches precariously on narrow steel bars 1,000 feet above the ground, their high-visibility jackets mere pinpricks of color against the grey London sky, construction workers are putting the final touches to Europe’s tallest building. After 3 years of work, the last few floors of The Shard are taking shape...more

February 18, Melbourne A high-rise state primary school is in the cards for Docklands as the Government focuses on Melbourne's future. News of the concept came amid mixed views last week to a long-term plan by the state government to expand the city into a Manhattan-style metropolis...more

February 17, Houston Several commercial development projects located throughout the North Houston area are being billed as key economic drivers for the region. Among those are projects located in The Woodlands Town Center, which focuses on a continual build out called the “Super Block” and a high-rise condo near Waterway Square...more

February 17, Hainan, China German architecture firm HENN has won the contract to design a 10-tower development on a tropical Chinese island. The practice claimed first prize to design the Haikou Towers on Hainan, located in the South China Sea. Haikou Towers is set to become the heart of the new central business district of Haikou...more

February 17 There's a particular flavor of 1970s-era office tower that's starting to feel its age. Most cities have at least one. Stuck in between the perceived coolness of early 20th century facades and the newness of all-glass towers, these buildings are having a hard time retaining existing tenants, let alone attracting new ones...more

February 17, Toronto The battle of the tallest residential towers in Canada is escalating. The Aura condo project in Toronto has regained the title, thanks to a committee of adjustment decision that will see it stretch three stories to 78 stories, once construction is completed in 2014...more

February 17, New York Workers on the World Trade Center construction site received a major scare when several steel beams fell 40 stories from a crane onto a flatbed truck Thursday morning. No injuries were reported. An investigation into the incident is underway, but one thing is abundantly clear--a tragedy of major proportions was avoided...more

February 17, London An environmental campaign group has added its voice to protests against an 18-story skyscraper in the heart of Dalston. The project involves bulldozing a department store and building a two-block complex, including a 50-meter tower. Neighbors fear the scheme would plunge their homes into darkness...more

February 17, Melbourne The bold plan would see skyscrapers stretching from Richmond to beyond the West Gate Bridge. The Grand CBD proposal by Planning Minister Matthew Guy could see the city transformed into a Manhattan-style metropolis. But critics charge it will turn the city into a characterless wind tunnel...more

February 16, Paris Bouygues Construction has signed a 575 million euro contract to design, build and finance the new Paris Law Court complex. The contract also covers the provision of maintenance and upkeep services for a period of 27 years. Designed by Renzo Piano, the project will unite five facilities currently spread around Paris...more

February 16, Dallas Commercial developer and investor KDC plans to develop a 400,000-square foot, Class ‘A’ office tower at Victory Park in downtown Dallas. Construction should begin this fall on the 23-story building, which will include 15 floors of office space above an 8-story parking structure. Completion is scheduled for late 2014...more

February 15, London After plans for a rotating tower in Dubai stalled, the architect now says plans are moving forward to build the tower in London. The 80-story skyscraper will boast independently-rotating floors that can be orchestrated to give the building a fluid, changing look, according to architect David Fisher...more

February 15, Sesena, Spain In the wake of the property market collapse in Spain, towering apartment blocks, , loom over empty streets, weed-filled lots and gaping excavation pits in some neighborhoods. The lone bank in a mega-development nicknamed "Manhattan" closed two years ago and most storefronts are bricked up...more

February 15, Cape Town Construction group Murray & Roberts has been awarded a R1.6 billion-contract to build one of Cape Town’s tallest buildings, the Portside Project. The Portside building will cover a city block and offer expansive views of Table Mountain and the Atlantic. It is expected to be completed in March, 2014...more

February 15, Hamburg The Elbphilharmonie project in Hamburg has hit another snag. The contractor HochTief is facing a lawsuit from the City of Hamburg over escalating construction costs. HochTief ceased work in November after fears were raised over the stability of the existing building’s roof, which is expected to support a 2,000-ton steel and concrete structure...more

February 14, New York The Steiner family, which operates a successful film and TV production studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yards, has revealed the renderings for The Hub, a residential tower planned for downtown Brooklyn. Twenty percent of the apartments in the tower will be set aside for affordable housing, the developers say...more

February 14, Singapore A huge waterfront residential complex in Singapore, designed by Daniel Libeskind, will open in March. Situated at the entrance to historic Keppel Harbor, Reflections at Keppel Bay is the architect’s largest residential project and first in Asia.The 20-acre site includes 6 high-rise towers and 11 low-rise villas...more

February 14, Linkoping, Sweden Plantagon recently broke ground on its very first vertical farm in Linkoping, Sweden. This prototype building will be called the International Centre of Excellence for Urban Agriculture, and it will serve as a facility for scientists to test new technologies aimed at improving urban farming...more

February 14, Vancouver BIG is proposing a 490-foot-tall twisting tower for Vancouver. The project would become the city’s fourth tallest building and BIG’s tallest tower, 40 feet taller than the W57 hybrid tower in Manhattan. The tower’s floor plate begins as a triangle at its base and rises, twisting and corbelling to form a rectangle at its summit...more

February 13, New York Developers are apparently ready to break ground on Christian de Portzamparc's 40-story glass-covered project on Park Avenue South, after 10 years of development. The project will include 20-story of condos for sale, with the rest of the apartments available for rental...more

February 13, New York The owner of the Empire State Building plans to raise as much as $1 billion in a public offering. Empire State Realty Trust, which owns the 102-story landmark tower, wants to become a real estate investment trust and list shares on the New York Stock Exchange, according to a filing with the SEC...more

February 13 The new city plan for Austin, Texas, raises the debate about the pros and cons of cities increasing density and growing taller. Allowing more density and expanding building heights may be the answer to a range of urban challenges, offering solutions for sustainability and traffic congestion...more

February 13, Bangkok Property firms in Bangkok are racing to complete new condominiums before limitations imposed by the new city plan come into effect in May. The new plan establishes a wide range of restrictions, including stipulations on where builders can develop high-rise condominium projects...more

February 12, Leeds, UK Leeds City Council could be charged with corporate manslaughter after an inquest into the death of a pedestrian was sensationally halted over concerns about the design of a landmark skyscraper. Protesters have complained that Bridgewater Place has turned the main street into a massive wind tunnel...more

February 10, Baltimore Exelon Corp.'s new headquarters in Baltimore is designed to be a glass-covered, 22-story skyscraper, similar in style to the Legg Mason tower, which would be a neighbor on the Harbor East waterfront. The tower is part of the $250 million, 27-acre Harbor Point development...more

February 10, Toronto In the first lawsuit of its kind in North America, lawyers for two nature groups contend the shiny glass office buildings that make up the Consilium Place Complex in Toronto are lethal structures to migratory birds. Ecojustice and Ontario Nature claim 1,000 birds a year are killed in collisions with the buildings...more

February 10, Los Angeles Century City skyscraper Constellation Place, formerly known as MGM Tower, is the first Los Angeles high-rise to be served by electricity-generating fuel cells. Landlord JMB Realty installed two Bloom Energy Servers that will produce 400 kilowatts of power, about one-third of the electricity needed by the 35-story tower...more

February 10, Pyongyang Some of the world’s grandest architectural plans came to a halt following the global recession. But North Korea has been toiling over its most luxurious hotel since 1988. Twenty-three years later the project is nearly finished. The 105-story Ryugyong Hotel is set to partially open for business this spring...more

February 10, Israel Recent headlines declared Givatayim's new skyscraper as the tallest building in Israel, but that didn’t last long. A planning committee lopped off a few meters from the Eurocom building and Givatayim was left with a tower the same height as the Moshe Aviv Tower in Ramat Gan. The two buildings now share the desired title...more

February 10, Marseille One of France's most important landmarks, the La Cité Radieuse housing estate in Marseille, built by the architect Le Corbusier, has been damaged by fire. Fire services fought for more than 12 hours to put out a blaze that began in a first-floor flat in the complex, which is protected by special heritage status in France...more

February 9, Seattle City planners are preparing a recommendation on raising height limits for new buildings in South Lake Union. Vulcan Inc., the Seattle-based investment company, is the main proponent of taller buildings in the area. Seattle has already raised the maximum height of buildings around downtown twice since 2005...more

February 9, New York Redevelopment of the World Trade Center site is starting to impact the lower Manhattan skyline, mostly by the under-construction One World Trade Center, now more than 90 floors high. But just across the 16-acre site, another tower – 4 World Trade Center – is rising fast...more

February 9, Toronto Habitat for Humanity is well-known for helping low-income families move into detached homes built with the help of volunteers. Now, given the limited supply of land in Toronto, the international charity is looking to expand into high-rise condominiums...more

February 8, Xiamen Construction has started on the World Overseas Chinese International Conference Centre, a key project in Xiamen. The 700 million yuan tower is considered the first major project to launch in the Lujiangdao, Siming district. The WOCICC is scheduled to open within two years and its height is expected to reach 113 meters...more

February 8, Atlanta One of the biggest emblems of Atlanta's real estate boom is now an emblem of its bust. Bank of America Plaza, the South’s tallest skyscraper and an Atlanta skyline icon, was taken back by its lender at a foreclosure auction. The 55-story tower, bought for a record price in 2006, is metro Atlanta’s priciest repossession...more

February 7, Tokyo The race to the top is getting higher and higher. When the JW Marriott Marquis Dubai opens its doors at the end of this year, it will be one of the tallest dedicated hotel buildings in the world. Standing at 1,099-foot tall (355 meters), the hotel is only 26 meters shorter than the Empire State Building in New York...more

February 7, Tokyo In the months right after last year's earthquake, sales of condominiums in Tokyo dropped 30% compared to the previous year. Fears of liquefaction caused potential buyers of tower condos to reconsider, and for a while the media surmised that planned high-rise housing projects might be abandoned...more

February 7, San Diego Think San Diego’s skyline is a bit boring? NewSchool of Architecture and Design graduate students have the answer. The proposals were submitted in a class led by acting provost Kurt Hunker, who thought the current rash of skyscrapers around the world offered an opportunity to consider the challenges of designing for high-rise living...more

February 7, Singapore Singapore’s Central Business District (CBD) is set to get another green building. CapitaGreen, a 40-story office tower to be built on the site of the former Market Street Carpark, will be property developer CapitaLand's second environmentally-friendly building in the CBD, following One George Street, which opened in 2004...more

February 7, Perth A group of skyscraper construction workers posed for a photo while perched on a steel beam 234 meters above Perth. The photo was taken as City Square Tower – set to become the new home of BHP Billiton – entered its final phase of construction this week...more

February 6, Chicago Chicago's move to post fire safety information online follows a deadly fire last month in a high-rise on North Lake Shore Drive. Residents can visit the City of Chicago website to search for specific buildings that are required to submit fire safety information, known as Life Safety Evaluation reports...more

February 6, Panama City, USA Throughout the year, amazing photos of natural occurrences make their way to the headlines. That’s the case for a recent photo of low-lying clouds. A man flying a helicopter snapped the latest phenomenal photo making going viral. The amazing shot shows clouds hugging buildings on a Panama City beach...more

February 6 Ageing city buildings in all of Australia's main cities will require increased maintenance in the future to ensure public safety, in the wake of recent dramatic scenes in Melbourne when a large slab of marble fell from the facade of a high-rise commercial building in Collins Street...more

February 5, Tokyo Mitsubishi Electric Corp. gave an overview of its ultra-high-speed elevator developed for the 632-meter Shanghai Tower under construction in Shanghai, China. To realize the world's fastest speed at 1,080 meters per minute, Mitsubishi used new technologies to increase safety, lifting height, and comfort...more

February 4, Mumbai It was touted as Mumbai's prime real estate project, but ever since its construction, this 21-story high-rise has only been sinking deeper and deeper in a quagmire of controversy. Officials of the City and Industrial Development Corporation have ordered that it be demolished within a week...more

February 4, New York New York real estate can bring out even the most dormant phobias of potential buyers. With so many options, apartment hunters can easily be paralyzed by the fear of making decisions. That doesn’t seem to be a problem for the wealthy investors who are wiring millions of dollars to snatch up a piece of 157 West 57th Street...more

February 4, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE Snøhetta has been commissioned by the Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority and RAKEEN to undertake the architectural design for the Gateway project in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. Situated in the desert 150 kilometers to the east of Dubai this project will mark entrance to the city...more

February 3, Chicago Jeanne Gang joined representatives from Silliman Group to present Studio Gang’s design for City Hyde Park, a mixed-use project intended to invigorate one of Hyde Park’s most important gateways with new opportunities for living and shopping, at a public meeting held at the Hyde Park Art Center...more

February 3, Vancouver A new office tower being proposed for a location near the Vancouver waterfront would continue a trend toward upward growth in the city. Proponents of a 32-story skyscraper want to redevelop a site at the northern end of Granville Street across from the SeaBus terminal...more

February 3, Austin, USA With over 286,000 festival fanatics flooding the streets in 2011, space to spend the night in the city was limited. Austin’s current 6,000 downtown hotel rooms (and 30,000 citywide) are sometimes not enough for all out-of-towners attending events like SXSW...more

February 3, Adelaide, Australia Planning Minister John Rau is in the final stages of drafting a city development blueprint expected to significantly alter existing height, density and design guidelines set by Adelaide City Council. Mr. Rau has said that the current regimen is "hopelessly inadequate for the task" of delivering a vibrant city center...more

February 2, New York New York's City Council voted in favor of the Borough Hall Skyscraper Historic District, which encompasses 21 skyscrapers and office buildings that were built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries near the building that was once known as Brooklyn City Hall...more

February 2, Tel Aviv A Tel Aviv-area planning committee approved a plan to build what will become Israel's tallest skyscraper. The 70-story high-rise, approved by the Tel Aviv District Planning and Construction Committee, will be built in the Tel Aviv suburb of Givatayim and rise to reach a height of 241 meters...more

February 1 It's an idea that has the potential to revolutionize the construction industry: use prefabricated modules to build more than 6,000 housing units. If Forest City Ratner is able to turn the idea into a reality, the firm will build a 32-story residential tower in Brooklyn, New York...more

February 1, Chicago Chicago futures trader Donald Wilson Jr. is making the case to build a 50-story building along North Water Street immediately north of the Sheraton hotel. It would include apartments on the higher floors and a hotel on the lower levels. Sources said Wilson has an agreement with the Loews chain to operate the hotel...more

February 1, Dubai The dome and mast of Dubai's landmark Princess Tower have been completed, bringing it one step closer to becoming the world's tallest residential tower with a final height of 414 meters. The project is in its final stages of development and is expected to be handed over in the second quarter of this year...more

February 1, Fort Mill, USA York County will soon know whether the owners of the dilapidated 21-story building on the former Heritage USA site should fix it up or tear it down. In 2007, the county wanted to demolish the unfinished high-rise, but MorningStar came forward with a plan to renovate it into a spiritually focused retirement community...more

February 1, Shanghai The city of Shanghai rolled out new rules to ensure the safety of its skyscrapers after a series of accidents in which glass panels on the exterior walls of high-rises shattered unexpectedly. The new rules banned multi-story hospitals, schools, nurseries, and buildings in city centers from using glass curtain walls...more

January 31, Doha Work on the Doha Convention Centre and Tower has been halted following fears that it could disrupt flights at the new international airport in Doha, Qatar. Once completed, the 551-meter 112-story Doha Convention Centre and Tower project would become one of the tallest mixed-use towers in the world...more

January 31, New York The price tag for One World Trade Center, the signature skyscraper under construction at Ground Zero in New York, has risen to more than US$3.8 billion, making it by far the world's most expensive new office tower, according to people familiar with the matter...more

January 31, Toronto Toronto may not have the waterfront complete with a Ferris wheel like Chicago, but the Toronto Trump Tower looks to brings the sister cities a little closer. The Trump, which opens today, will boast 261 rooms as well as condo suites for those who want a more permanent home-away-from-home in the city...more

January 30, Chicago Park Towers, at 5415 N. Sheridan Rd., is one of over a thousand pre-1975 high-rises which fall under grandfathered provisions of the city’s controversial fire code. National fire officials have blasted Chicago’s code as inadequate, because it does not mandate sprinkler systems for older residential high-rises...more

January 30, Warsaw Developer Włodarzewska is planning the construction of a new high-rise building in central Warsaw which will sit on a tiny plot located in the country’s capital. The tower will be less than 10 meters wide but its final height is yet to be determined – 85- and 120-meter variants are both being considered...more

January 29, Vancouver Foster + Partners has completed its Jameson House project in Vancouver, Canada, which involved the restoration of a heritage building and a new 35-story mixed-use tower. The development comprises 11 stories of offices and shops, topped by 23 stories of apartments...more

January 29, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Standing on what was once Ethiopia's oldest maximum security prison, the almost 100-meter 20-story building, which dominates the skyline of Addis Ababa, was a gift from the Chinese Government, estimated at a cost of $200 million to the African Union...more

January 28, Seattle The Smith Tower's windows apparently haven't been washed in more than three years and water damage is evident in the stairwells and some vacant offices. These revelations about the sorry state of Seattle's first skyscraper - and many more - are contained in a report by the building's receiver...more

January 28, Wolfsburg, Germany These two 20-story buildings, which were the inspiration for a huge garage in the latest Mission Impossible film, are located at the Volkswagen theme park, the Autostadt, which translates as “car city.” Each day about 600 cars are picked up from the two 200-foot tall silos by their new owners...more

January 27, Abu Dhabi When Rosewood Hotels and Resorts opens its new high-rise in Abu Dhabi at the end of this year, it will have a valuable next-door neighbor: the Cleveland Clinic. Both the Ohio-based medical center and the hotel group are newcomers to the United Arab Emirates, a new hub for the medical world...more

January 27, Montreal It’s hard to imagine Montreal without the distinctive tower that is Place Ville Marie in the heart of downtown or the light beacon on the tower that circles the city at night. This year, the tower that dominates Montreal’s landscape is celebrating its 50th anniversary...more

January 27, Toronto How to suspend a 13-story office building over top of a four-story historic masonry building on a tight site was the puzzle facing the engineering team for Allied Properties REIT’s Queen Richmond Centre West development poised for construction in downtown Toronto...more

January 27, Rio de Janeiro Three buildings suddenly collapsed in downtown Rio de Janeiro. The buildings, which were 20, 10, and 4 stories high, were office space during the day and were almost empty at the time of the disaster. Officials speculated that illegal construction work damaged the structure of the 20-story building and caused it to crumble...more

January 26, Ahmedabad, Pakistan The city is witnessing residential and commercial complexes as high as 70 meters with 22 stories. Under the township policy and the special development regulation, the state government is granting permission for high-rise buildings...more

January 26, Chicago The Kennedy family is crafting plans to build on its Wolf Point property along the Chicago River. People familiar with the proposal said the Kennedys envision a three-tower complex for residential and office use on the four-acre site. Their chosen architect is Cesar Pelli, who designed the Petronas Towers in Malaysia...more

January 26, Dubai Over 125 families living on 25 floors of Al Bakr Tower 4 located opposite Al Taawun Mall in Sharjah watched in despair their flats go up in flames in the wee hours of Wednesday, destroying their belongings and for some, earnings of their entire lives...more

January 25, Los Angeles One of Los Angeles’ most unsightly holes in the ground is finally ready to be filled. The General Service Administration has revealed plans to move forward with its long-awaited federal building downtown, announcing that the bid is out for a design-build contract for a new federal courthouse...more

January 25, London For the second time, work on the Bishopsgate Tower, aka the Pinnacle or the Helter-Skelter, has been halted because of financial concerns. The developer, Arab Investments, has for the time being failed to pre-let enough of the tower to guarantee a half-billion pound package from HSBC...more