Feb 4, Leeds

The planned Ian Simpson designed towers for Leeds, the Lumiere, have hit a major speed bump in the form of the refusal by the local council to approve the latest revisions the developer wishes to make to the scheme. The problems refer to a decision by the council's planning committee to permit a number of changes to the tower to add apartments to it...more

Feb 4, Hull, Yorkshire

Hull's skyline is to be transformed by the construction of its tallest building ever. The 23-storey skyscraper, part of a £100m waterside development, is destined for the former Rank Hovis Clarence Mills site, next to Drypool Bridge on the River Hull. The plans also features accommodation for 590 students and a 53,000 sq ft casino...more

Feb 4, Atlanta

A South Carolina bank has foreclosed upon the site proposed for a chic 53-story Mandarin Oriental Hotel in the heart of Midtown Atlanta. First Citizens Bank & Trust Co. of Columbia, S.C., acquired the site at 1138 Peachtree Street in a foreclosure auction Feb. 2, 2010 on the Fulton County Courthouse steps...more

Feb 4, Shoreditch

Squire & Partners’ contentious 18-storey Art’otel scheme in Shoreditch won planning permission from Hackney Council, despite local opposition. The 350-room hotel development on the prominent City fringe site was approved subject to further review of the detailed design by the planning committee...more

Feb 4, Dubai

Al Attar Properties, a Dubai-based developer, has served legal notices to investors in its The Skyscraper, a commercial tower in the Business Bay development, seeking payments to continue with construction, a senior company executive said. "We have already linked our payment plans to construction milestones and investors were required to pay after we completed piling"...more

Feb 4, Croydon

The centre of Croydon could become a sea of skyscrapers with an extra 10,000 new homes. It is the equivalent of 20 new skyscrapers and an extra 25,000 people in the centre of the borough. Croydon Council’s core strategy shaping the borough’s future originally planned to have the extra housing spread out along the A23...more

Feb 4, London

Remember the planned, and indeed approved tower called Vauxhall Sky Gardens in London? Well despite having secured planning approval for the designs, the development is now being re-jigged although the original building mass will remain as before. The first of the changes is that the floor-plates of the tower have been reduced in width...more

Feb 3, Mumbai

“We are not going to talk about tall buildings over the coming three days. In fact, I say, we should stop making tall buildings because there isn’t infrastructure to support them,” said Antony Wood, Exec. Director, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, while inaugurating the three-day annual CTBUH world conference 2010...more

Feb 3, New York

The Port Authority announced that steel erection for One World Trade Center has reached the 20th floor, or 200 feet above street level. For this particular project, that means that 8,000 tons of structural steel have been installed by DCM Erectors—700 tons more than all the steel in the Eiffel Tower...more

Feb 2, New Songdo City

The world is bracing for an influx of billions of new urbanites in the coming decades, and tech companies are rushing to build new green cities to house them. Are these companies creating a smarter metropolis -- or just making money? Cisco's Wim Elfrink and developer Stan Gale plan to standardize many elements of New Songdo in other cities...more

Feb 2, Chongqing

These two designs by KPF are two proposals for a new supertall tower in the Chinese city of Chongqing, the third supertall project in town by the architecture firm. The project, estimated to be about 380 metres in height, is situated in the very heart of the core area of Chongqing's Jiefangbei CBD with MAD's Urban Forest planned literally over the road...more

Feb 2, Brooklyn

Toren, Downtown Brooklyn's most distinctive new residential tower, has passed several important milestones resulting in a successful completion. With the Temporary Certificate of Occupancy (TCO) in place, new residents have begun settling in to their new homes and taking advantage of the buildings' many amenities...more

Feb 2, Dallas

A Carrollton-based developer has purchased a partially built Uptown condo tower. CTMGT LLC – an affiliate of Centurion American Development Group – beat out a group of bidders trying to acquire the uncompleted Heritage at the Stoneleigh residential high-rise on Wolf Street near Maple Avenue...more

Feb 2, Kuwait

Kuwait’s Arraya Tower has officially become the world’s 43rd tallest building. The 60-storey, 300-metre high, tower was confirmed as the fourth tallest building completed in the world in 2009 by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) in late January, 2010. The tallest building in Kuwait, designed by American architect Curtis Fentress...more

Feb 2, Abu Dhabi

Over the past few months, the Abu Dhabi’s construction industry has taken several knocks in the form of mid-construction building collapses and on-site fires blazing into the night. The region was at particular risk from fire injuries and casualties, due to the extra difficulties presented by building the ubiquitous high-rises...more

Feb 1, Manchester

The people of Manchester may finally have some relief from the ‘whistling’ noise coming from the city’s tallest building. Scaffolding has appeared around Ian Simpson Architect’s 47-storey Beetham Tower to support works to reduce the noise being generated by the building’s blade structure in gusty conditions, according to developer The Beetham Organization...more

Feb 1, Budapest

It is an old dream of many Hungarians for Budapest to host the Olympics. The main location would be Csepel Island, at the Southern part of the capital. Besides the Olympics, the core ideas of the project are large green spaces directly connected to the natural environment, water, sustainability, densely populated areas and high-rise buildings...more

Feb 1, London

Almost 18 months after the bottom fell out of the financial market it's become clear the world hasn't ended and that London's property developers acted perhaps too quickly in canning developments in the face of the perceived risk of the day and although we may end up in a double dip recession, an actual economic depression is not on the horizon...more

Jan 31, Los Angeles

Given the recession, many in downtown Los Angeles assumed a mega-project once planned for the Pershing Square was dead. But there are now signs that Park + Fifth might still have a chance. Plans for the $1-billion high-rise condominium complex overlooking Pershing Square Park in downtown Los Angeles were unveiled in 2007 amid fanfare...more

Jan 31, Dublin

The planned U2 Tower in the Dublin docklands has been put on hold. The Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) has written to the backers of the €200 million project, saying it will not go ahead until 2011 at the earliest. It is the latest setback for the skyscraper project, which had already been put on hold for a year...more

Jan 31, Anyang City, South Korea

A plan by Anyang City to construct a skyscraper has added fuel to public anger over high-cost luxury municipal buildings. The city, just south of Seoul, has announced the 100-story building plan that will require 2.2 trillion won ($1.9 billion). It said the "Sky Tower" project is designed to house the municipal administration, the city council, a business center...more

Jan 29, Pittsburgh

Rising 841 feet above Grant Street, the U.S. Steel Tower has been the city's tallest building since it opened in August 1970. Built by U.S. Steel as its corporate headquarters the building attained stature for its distinctive triangular footprint and its external girdering system that pioneered the use of Cor-ten steel...more

Jan 29

The idea of integrating solar power with building materials has been an attractive concept for decades, but one of the biggest challenges, has been aesthetics. PhotoCASE A curtain of solar concentrators permit light to flow into a building while generating electricity and even heating water...more

Jan 29

As more and more flashy new buildings lined up for their bona fides, LEED routinely allowed them to stand on its shoulders and reap the benefits of sustainable credentials and higher property values. But once the certifications had been awarded, did those buildings look back? Did they keep the green promises they’d made?...more

Jan 29, Cape Canaveral

Human exploration of the stars is set to further expand with the construction of a massive new launch pad being built at Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral. The huge 119 meter tall structure has been designed to work primarily as a mobile launching platform for the new Ares rocket although it will also be able to support future rocket systems too...more

Jan 29, New York

The thin, glassy slab of the United Nations Secretariat and the draping stone form of the General Assembly have been a serene presence along Manhattan’s East River for almost 60 years. January 2009, the last of about 5,500 personnel are moving temporarily to make way for a long-delayed $1.9 billion program of updating and restoration...more

Jan 28, China

New figures show that property sales in China jumped 75 percent in 2009 as record levels of bank loans boosted purchases. Property prices rose by the fastest pace in 18 months in December, adding to fears of a real estate bubble. China has been trying to rein in speculation...more

Jan 28, Sofia, Bulgaria

The construction of a new business center described as the first Bulgarian skyscraper started in Sofia with a ground-breaking ceremony attended by Regional Development Minister Rosen Plevneliev. The project for “Captain Ford” Business Center is a joint work of the UK design studio Atkins and of their Bulgarian colleagues from A&A Architects...more

Jan 28, New York

The Burj Khalifa in Dubai, at 160 stories and 2,717 feet high, makes the 102-story Empire State Building into a pipsqueak, and indeed the urge to build the tallest structure in the world is an infectious one. Within that aspirational tradition John A. Larkin bears the mantle of two attempts...more

Jan 28, Oklahoma City

Sandridge, one of the largest independent producers in Oklahoma City, unveiled an over $100 million expansion of its downtown headquarters across three city blocks. The plans include a renovated 1960s tower by architect Pietro Belluschi, a restored Braniff Buildingand a public park recycled from a pair of windswept plazas...more

Jan 28, Ukraine

Ukrainian architectural firm 2b2 published their project the 'Ark' their architectural interpretation of Noah's ark. The complex includes the hotel interсontinental standing at 101m in height consists of 28 floors; with president suites standard rooms and numerous restaurants and bars...more

Jan 27, Makati, Philippines

The 68-floor Discovery Primea will stand on the former Gilarmi Apartments along Ayala Avenue. On the premise that many of its eventual population would be of mature age, it would include hospital facilities and services provided by Asian Hospital. There will be 90 units ranging from 383 to 680 square meters...more

Jan 26, Freiburg

A new project in Freiburg's Weingarten district is making apartment living more energy-efficient. Freiburg's municipal housing association, which owns the high-rises, developed a simple plan to recoup a portion of the renovation costs. The building's 100 large apartments are being subdivided into 139 smaller, two- to three-room units...more

Jan 26, Charlotte

Despite a still sluggish real estate market, The Vue Charlotte is now set to open September 1st, 2010. The building is about 50 percent sold, but the developer says he is not lowering the prices. "It's a high-end luxury building and it looks like it's going to be the only one built in a long time," Mclean said from the project's uptown sales center...more

Jan 26, Seattle

MulvannyG2 Architecture, in venture with Gluckman Mayner Architects, has completed a new hotel and residential high-rise tower in the Denny Triangle area of Downtown Seattle. The 39-storey project, developed by the R.C. Hedreen Company, includes luxury one-and two-bedroom residential units, as well as penthouses, atop a full-service Hyatt Hotel...more

Jan 26, Santa Ana

A developer who wants to build the biggest skyscraper in Orange County history has approached county officials about moving some government offices into his proposed tower. That kind of lease would help clear the way for developer Michael Harrah to break ground on his 37-story tower, called One Broadway Plaza...more

Jan 26, Shanghai

Beijing burnished its international reputation with a handful of acclaimed icons built for the Olympics. But Shanghai is still the Chinese city that appeals most to foreigners, thanks to its checkered past, colonial architecture and mercantile drive—qualities that don't need translating for most Westerners...more

Jan 26, Chicago

Aqua—a eighty-two-story apartment tower in the center of Chicago—is made of the same tough, brawny materials as most skyscrapers: metal, concrete, and lots of glass. But the architect, Jeanne Gang, a forty-five-year-old Chicagoan, has figured out a way to give it soft, silky lines, like draped fabric...more

Jan 26, Sichuan Province

Chengdu Master Plan by SOM - Skidmore, Owing & Merril - transforms the site of a former steel pipe factory into a sustainable, mixed-use community in southwestern China’s Sichuan province. The plan creates walkable, high-density neighborhoods along the Ha river and the city’s main corridor, Dong Da Road...more

Jan 26, Sydney

The future of Australian city living is in a high or medium-rise apartment block, with much less space, almost no private gardens, and a much lower ceiling than the home you grew up in. On Sydney's upper North Shore, houses keep making way for unit blocks...more

Jan 26, Enfield, UK

Olympic 2012 masterplanner AECOM has been named on a seven-strong shortlist vying to design an enormous 5,000-home development in Enfield. Enfield Council has also named Arup and Broadway Malyan among the finalists in the running to mastermind the huge Meridian Water scheme...more

Jan 25, Denver

Behringer Harvard announced its acquisition of 4550 Cherry Creek, a 24-story high-rise multifamily community providing 288 apartment homes at 4550 Cherry Creek South Drive in Denver, Colorado. The community is located midway between the metro's two largest employment centers...more

Jan 25, Milan

One of the key developments under construction in the Italian city of Milan is Porta Nuova Garibaldi, a new commercial complex that's been designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. With 35 floors and a height of 145 meters to the roof, the building features a spire burj-like in nature that will push it to 215 meters at its tip...more

Jan 25, Moscow

The Russian capital of Moscow is undergoing an architectural renaissance in that the city is transitioning from its current era of design to a more modern and international one. In the midst of this transition is Mercury City Tower. Under construction in Moscow, this skyscraper is being designed by some of the world's greatest architects...more

Jan 24, San Francisco

When you think of San Francisco, most people think of the Golden Gate Bridge, Coit Tower and the Transamerica Pyramid. But while many San Franciscans cannot now imagine their city without the 853-foot-tall building, that hasn't always been the case...more

Jan 24, Shanghai

Shanghai's skyscraper-saturated landscape can seem surreal. Standing like immense giants in an alien planet, the skyscrapers are one indication of the city's huge transformations in the recent past as well its orientation to the future. This article looks at the inspiration and symbolism behind some of these eye-catching buildings...more

Jan 22, Cixi Town, China

The foundation stone has been laid for an unusual looking new building designed by Skidmore Owings and Merrill. Intended to be the Crowne Plaza Hotel with serviced apartments and a five star hotel, the scheme will stand on the busy intersection of 3 North Street and Park Avenue in Cixi Town...more

Jan 22

Once bare-bones and utilitarian, architectural animation is becoming more nuanced and experiential. In part, this development can be credited to advances in 3-D technology, but at the same time architects have embraced the art of filmmaking -- not only to create more interactive presentations for clients, but also to leverage as a tool in the design process...more

Jan 22, Norway

Norway is considered to have the best conditions in the world for utilizing offshore wind power. The coastline of Stavanger, Norway is the longest and windiest in Europe and is largely unsaturated with turbines. The oil industry has given the country expertise in offshore foundations as well as investment capital to pursue this...more

Jan 22, Zhengzhou

Pagodas have long been a staple of Chinese architecture over the millennia, and now Skidmore Owings and Merrill look like adding further to this tradition with their winning entry to design a skyscraper in Zhengzhou. Pagodas are essentially towers with multiple tiers, each one marked out by eaves...more

Jan 22, Vancouver

City council is considering whether four new towers should be allowed in the city's protected downtown view corridors. It's also considering whether taller buildings should be allowed near Main and Hastings and in Chinatown. At a council meeting, city staff proposed allowing taller buildings that "demonstrate architectural excellence"...more

Jan 21, Mumbai

India is witnessing a gradual shift in its economy. What was earlier an agricultural economy is today being transformed into an urban economy, with almost 60% of country’s GDP coming from the urban areas. Maharashtra has the highest share in the urban development of the country...more

Jan 21

The Burj Khalifa in Dubai climbed higher than any other previous structure ever built. But architects won't rest there. Here are eight building plans trying to capture the title as the next tallest tower. Top 8 Skyscrapers that will push the limits of design: Burj Mubarak al Kabir,  One Dubai, Miapolis, Nakheel Tower...more

Jan 21, London

A 36-storey tower by Allies & Morrison, part of the Olympic boom at Stratford, has been granted planning consent. The London Thames Gateway Development Corporation has approved the £130 million Broadway Chambers scheme, which is sited between Stratford town center and the Olympic Park...more

Jan 21, Phoenix

More news from Arizona's troubled condo real estate market. One of Phoenix's tallest towers, 44 Monroe is seeing many of its condos head for foreclosure. The project was completed in 2008 but struggled to sell the units. Of a total of 196 units, 182 are unsold...more

Jan 21, Beijing

Zaha Hadid has won an international competition for the development of a new skyscraper in the Chinese capital of Beijing beating off some heavy competition from two leading finalists. The 200 metre plus Wangjing Business Area Project had solicited a number of entries, most notably from the Massimiliano Fukas Studio...more

Jan 21, Shoreditch

A 51-storey skyscraper that was given the green light will “cast a shadow over  Shoreditch” according to local campaigners. Bishops Place, comprising a hotel, offices, leisure facilities and flats will be built in a Shoreditch conservation site across 4.7 hectares. The £500 million scheme was approved by Hackney Council’s planning committee in November 2009...more

Jan 20, Shanghai

Although the projects to get the press coverage in Chinese cities tend to be supertall or approaching that, places like Shanghai have seen an overall boom in towers going far beyond a few large landmark ones. On 1080 East Daming Road is a 120 metre tall tower designed by Heller Manus Architects under construction...more

Jan 19, Dubai

Acclaimed architecture critic and writer Paul Goldberger couldn’t be visiting Dubai at a better time. With the well-toned Burj Khalifa rising tall and proud in the background, he talks about architecture, the sustainability of a skyscraper and of course, 
the Burj Khalifa. "Is this your first time in Dubai?" "Yes, yes. I am still figuring things out."...more

Jan 19, Las Vegas

Helmut Jahn created the eye-grabbing Veer Towers at MGM Mirage's $8.5 billion CityCenter development. The twin condominium buildings lean across one another like a pair of drunken revelers. The 37-story-tall trapezoidal-shaped towers tilt five degrees in opposite directions for a striking visual contrast of angles that seem suspended in time and space...more

Jan 19, Beijing

KCAP Architects & Planners is to complete Olympic development in Beijing with its winning design for the development of a 50 hectares site at the southern edge of the Olympic Park. Sealing the gap between the successful park and the transport nodes to the south, KCAP's masterplan acts as a further legacy from the 2008 Olympics...more

Jan 19, Birmingham

Planned in Birmingham near the two sentinel towers and Holloway Circus on Holloway Head is this development designed by the Archial Group for Panther Securities. The £70 million project is being developed to house not only 303 apartments but also a new three star hotel with 131 bedrooms, conference facilities and casino plus a car showroom and workshop...more

Jan 19, Cincinnati

A downtown Cincinnati skyscraper under construction marked a major milestone.  Crews performed a "Topping Out" ceremony at the Queen City Square. The last beam was lifted to the top of the tower, marking the completion of the buildings skeleton. A tiara, modeled after a crown wore by England's Princess Diana, will go on top of that...more

Jan 19, Chicago

Building big is nothing new. In 1885, the ten storey Home Insurance Building, credited with the invention of the skyscraper, rose from the streets of Chicago. From then on the aspiration to construct tall, taller and tallest has fuelled the minds of architects and developers. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat released the ten tallest buildings completed in 2009...more

Jan 19, Tweed, Gold Coast

Highrises could soon dominate Tweed Heads under a new plan to bring the coastal city in line with its Gold Coast neighbour Coolangatta. The quieter sibling of the twin towns could be revamped as part of a NSW Government draft plan to transform the Tweed Heads CBD into a thriving tourism hub by 2035...more

Jan 19, Toronto

Toronto had feared that the fourth tower of the Pinnacle Centre development had been felled by the recession. Its name, which seems ironic is Success Tower II. Like virtually the entire complement of Toronto's planned mega-skyscrapers, which includes 18,400-metre-plus monoliths under construction, Success II survived the rough winds of the recession...more

Jan 19, Greece

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat announced its support of the “Piraeus Tower 2010 – Changing the Face/Façades Reformation” competition organized by GreekArchitects.gr with co-organizer DuPont Hellas S.A. With this competition GreekArchitects.gr continues its actions and aims for the development and promotion of architecture in Greece...more

Jan 18, US

The majestic steel beams of a soaring office tower beginning to rise from the ruins of the World Trade Center are a tribute to American resilience, but also a marker in the decline of yet another industry. Not an inch of imported glass went into the two lost towers, built 40 years ago. The lower floors of the new one will soon be sheathed in Chinese glass...more

Jan 18, Dallas

Commercial real estate firm Holliday Fenoglio Fowler L.P. confirmed that it has obtained a $65 million refinancing deal for 1700 Pacific, a 49-story office tower in the heart of downtown Dallas. News of the Class A tower’s refinancing comes after it was announced that Elm Place tower in downtown Dallas is closing...more

Jan 18, London

Squire and Partners has replaced SMC Alsop on the development planned for 151 City Road on the northern fringe of the City of London in the Borough of Hackney. The previous tower designed by Alsop, was considered by many as too outrageously designed to realistically get planning permission...more

Jan 16, Portland

Architects and federal officials plan one of the world's most extensive vertical gardens in downtown Portland - what amounts to a series of 250-foot-tall trellises designed to shade the west side of an 18-story office building. The architects' plans call for seven vertical "vegetated fins" to jut at acute angles...more

Jan 16, Doha

DohaLand has sponsored a professorship at Qatar University in an effort to begin teaching students of architecture and urban planning the modern Qatari architectural 'language' that will be employed in the 35-hectare Musheireb project. The design competition for Musheireb saw 100 regional and international firms whittled down to 11 finalists, none of which were Qatari...more

Jan 15, Los Angeles

It's not every day that Los Angeles welcomes a new addition to its skyline. The city did it in style with a gala for the 54-story Ritz-Carlton hotel-condo tower that is the centerpiece of L.A. Live and opens for business in February 2010. The $2.5-billion L.A. Live has been at the center of the effort to develop the area around Staples Center into a sports and entertainment hub....more

Jan 15, Chicago

An investor team that includes two Bridgeport businessmen and a specialist in industrial cleanups is trying its luck with high-rise housing. They have proposed a 33-story building at 519 S. Clinton, just west of the vacant Old Main Post Office. It's a poor market for planning a high-rise, so work won't start anytime soon. But the investors' zoning lawyer, said they wanted to start the approval process anyway...more

Jan 14, Boston

Get ready Boston, someday you might just have this incredible floating city within a city located in your harbor. The BoA, short for Boston Arcology, is a sustainable mega structure designed by Kevin Schopfer, who also designed the New Orleans Arcology Habitat (NOAH). The BoA will house 15,000 people in hotels, offices, retail spaces, museums, condominiums, and even a new city hall...more

Jan 14, Guangzhou

Guangzhou International Finance Center (GZIFC) unveiled its showcase suite. Situated on the 22nd floor the area features three main components. Designed by Australian architecture firm Woods Bagot the office space is decorated primarily with silver, white, black and grey colour tones. Located in the CBD of Pearl River New City in Guangzhou, GZIFC is 432 meters tall...more

Jan 14, Gwacheon, Korea

High-tech products from Korea such as mobile phones, flat screen televisions and semiconductors have gained widespread recognition in the world but modern Korean architecture is relatively less well known. A locally programmed exhibition that toured around Europe to promote Korean architecture has returned to Korea...more

Jan 14, Ethiopia

Dutch firm OIII Architects received a special mention for their proposal in the competition to design the commercial bank of Ethiopia. The city’s pattern of public roads, squares and parks is carried through into the CBE’s design. By connecting five towers to each other around a central atrium, a space is created which continues into the bank’s immediate surroundings...more

Jan 13, Beijing

A top Chaoyang district the government plans to have a 400-m or even taller skyscraper in the upcoming eastward expansion of its central business district (CBD). The new landmark, which will become Beijing's tallest architecture if built, will become a new icon of Beijing's booming role as a global business harbor...more

Jan 13, Hong Kong

Benoy has announced the opening of iSQUARE, a new ‘vertical destination mall’ located in the heart of Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong. In collaboration with Rocco Design Limited, Benoy designed the 56,000 sq m concept to integrate high quality retail with entertainment and extensive dining and lifestyle offers across 31 storeys...more

Jan 13, Milan

Plans were unveiled for Daniel Libeskind's Arduino Residential Tower in Milan, Italy. The project is part of the 'Citylife' plan to transform the site of the former Milan fairgrounds into a residential neighborhood which will also includes a children's museum, a convention center and a museum of contemporary art also designed by Libeskind...more

Jan 12, Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur is among the grandest cities of Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Having been initially established in the mid-1850’s, the city has grown to be one of the largest in the world. As a wondrous and attractive setting, Kuala Lumpur has become home to many developments of high intensity, including the mighty Petronas Twin Towers and, The Troika project...more

Jan 12, New York

The renovation of United Nations Headquarters in New York is only $90 million over its $1.876 billion budget compared with $219 million in 2008, with a good chance of returning to the black, while being on schedule for completion by late 2013. When completed, the landmark 39-storey building will possess the 21st-century trappings of eco-friendly energy conservation...more

Jan 12, Glenview

Schirmer Engineering, an Aon Global company, is pleased to announce the successful renewal of its ‘House of Expertise’ licenses in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.  Schirmer Engineering remains the only fire protection engineering firm licensed in both Dubai and Abu Dhabi...more

Jan 11, New York

Rafael Viñoly’s masterplan for a 260,000sq m mixed use scheme in Brooklyn, New York, has taken a step closer to approval with the scheme being submitted up for public review. The New Domino masterplan proposes the creation of 2,200 affordable homes and 1.6ha of public park on a site along the Brooklyn riverfront...more

Jan 11, Shanghai

The China Diamond Exchange Centre, designed by Goettsch Partners (GP), has opened in Shanghai. Commissioned by Shanghai Lujiazui Development Co. Ltd., the 49,750 sq m office building is located on Century Avenue, the main boulevard in Shanghai’s Pudong district, the city’s modern financial and commercial hub...more

Jan 11, Incheon

The new 300-room, five-star-rated Sheraton Incheon Hotel opened in New Songdo City, Korea, offering a new state-of-the-art facility in the heart of a new urban center. The new 25-story hotel is adjacent to the city’s new Convention Center, the Northeast Asia Trade Tower and a large retail mall. HOK provided architectural design, landscape design and sustainable design services for the new 500,000-square-foot, LEED certified hotel...more

Jan 11, Guangzhou

What is being billed as the world's most energy-efficient skyscraper is being built here in the center of one of China's smoggiest cities by state-owned China National Tobacco Co. It is the latest example of a new trend in China's burgeoning commercial-property market: State-owned businesses in industries as disparate as insurance and tobacco are emerging as developers...more

Jan 11, Singapore

The new address for technologies of the future and a futuristic lifestyle – the three towers of the "Fusionopolis" in Singapore. On up to 24 floors and 120,000 square metres, the Japanese architect Dr. Kisho Kurokawa has designed a so-called "layered city". In a vertical orientation, it combines everything that an ordinary city provides for its inhabitants on an extensive sealed surface area...more

Jan 11, Jeddah

Sageifat Al-Safa announced King's Road Tower is in the final phase of its construction. Once completed, Jeddah's tallest tower is expected to be a city landmark - it can be seen from any point in Jeddah and has the world's largest digital advertising screen as some of its more spectacular features. The commercial and residential tower comprises 37 floors...more

Jan 11, London

The tallest building in the Square Mile to open 2010, Nido ("nest" in Spanish or Italian) is the second student block built by the company in the UK. Nido King's Cross opened in 2007, and another is planned in Notting Hill. The 105m-tall building will accommodate 1,204 residents in a number of configurations, ranging from single or double studio units up to six-bedroom "clusters"...more

Jan 11, New York

This project is a USD$180m , 47-storey condominium located one block below Wall Street in lower Manhattan. There are 316 apartments, and a range of resident amenities including a 60-ft indoor lap pool, a gym, squash and basketball courts, a screening room, penthouse events space and terrace, and a public restaurant on the street level...more

Jan 11, Mumbai

The city may grow a little taller as more highrises get the green signal. After increasing the maximum permissible height of buildings in the airport vicinity from 150m to 300m, the Airports Authority of India (AAI) has sanctioned the construction of five high-rise projects. The civil aviation ministry and the AAI hiked the maximum permissible height of buildings within 20 km of the Mumbai airport to 300 m in May 2009...more

Jan 11, London

One of the most promising future clusters of tall buildings in London has been emerging in Wandsworth, and this concentration of tall buildings, both proposed and already realised, looks to be added to further if plans by Assael Architecture get the go-ahead. The site stands overlooking the River Wandle with Enterprise Way cutting through it...more

Jan 9, Miami

Miapolis has a catchy name and a flashy new website, but there are more questions than answers about a developer's dream of building the world's tallest building -- a complex that would soar 160 stories on Miami's Watson Island. Plans call for a 3,200-foot-tall building that would eclipse the Burj Khalifa in Dubai as the world's tallest...more

Jan 8

Look up from your cellphone and your pixelated field of vision stretches to the skyline. Electronic signs are everywhere, from billboards to taxis, and now buildings are becoming digital canvasses. Some are festooned with digital signs, some integrate lights and media to define space and add ornamentation, some combine those approaches...more

Jan 8, London

CZWG and Muf Architecture/Art have revealed the first images of their proposed regeneration of a site close to the home of Arsenal football club. The scheme will feature a 25-story mixed-use tower with dramatic views over the Emirates Stadium. With outer corners carved into ‘scallops’, the skyscraper will contain 88 five-bed student apartments...more

Jan 8, Rotterdam

The design of this 8.000-m2-office space and 2.000-m2 customs facilities, maintenance and access buildings utilized the Design and Build method; an efficient and effective building practice without compromise to built results or quality, allowing client and architect to come to a detailed architectural design quickly...more

Jan 8, London

With the filing of the planning application, proposals for a new student tower called Quill which is sited near London Bridge Station in the London borough of Southwark, are finally becoming clearer. The biggest change that has been made to the design has been the reduction in height of the element of the tower that bounds Melior Street by 15 meters...more

Jan 8, Beihai, China

Chinese firm MAD architects have released images of their 2008 'fake hills' project. Their design for a new housing development is located in the coastal city of Beihai, on a long, narrow waterfront site. The concept combines two typologies that most commonly define residential developments in China: high rise towers and long, low rise blocks...more