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31 July 2019 | New York City
When completed in 1915, New York’s Equitable Building was the largest building in the world. Located at 120 Broadway in Manhattan’s financial district, it stands at 40 stories tall, with...
30 July 2019 | Seattle
Kengo Kuma & Associates has gone to great lengths to preserve and highlight a century-old Gothic Revival building in Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood, proposing a mixed-use skyscraper that accentuates the ornate...
30 July 2019 | Shenzhen
Architecture firms OMA and CCDI have won a competition to design the waterfront International Conference and Exchange Center in Shenzhen. Dutch practice OMA and Chinese firm CCDI beat six other...
30 July 2019 | Guatemala City
Construction work on QUO, a new mixed-use project in Guatemala City, has progressed significantly in recent months. Together with XPO1, this real estate development is set to become an emerging...
29 July 2019 | Beijing
Straddling the new subway tunnel that diagonally divides its site, the Leeza SOHO tower in Beijing rises as a single volume divided into two halves on either side of the...
29 July 2019 | Chicago
A group of people on floor 96 of the former John Hancock Center in Chicago became entrapped on their elevator to the ground floor over a recent weekend. Around the...
26 July 2019 | Phnom Penh
The construction of Royal One, a 62-story building owned by the Royal Group, will resume later this year after a new developer is found, according to sources at the Royal...
26 July 2019 | Paris
MAD architects’ first building in Europe, know as UNIC, is nearing completion in Paris, France, marking the architecture firm’s first realized project in Europe. The residential complex will be located...
26 July 2019 | St. Paul
Developers of a Ramsey County project hoping to place high-rises and public recreational space along a large swath of St. Paul’s downtown riverfront presented a clearer picture of what they’ve...
25 July 2019 | Karawang
Property developer Emerald Land Development recently announced a new joint operation with PT Samudera Teknindo Hydraumatic for the development of a 50-hectare mixed-use development project in Karawang, West Java, Indonesia....
25 July 2019 | New York City
Excavation work has commenced for 29th & 5th, Bjarke Ingels Group‘s proposed skyscraper at 3 West 29th Street in NoMad, New York City. Excavators, piling machines, and other construction equipment...
25 July 2019 | Laval
On 11 June 2019, construction of one of the largest mixed-use real estate projects in Laval, Québec, Canada, began. Espace Montmorency, valued at more than CA$450 million (US$343 million), will...
24 July 2019 | Shanghai
Built on the site of a former hotel, Shanghai’s T20 combines office, civic, commercial, and cultural space with elevated green ribbons of public walkways at China’s busiest intersection. The 215,000...
24 July 2019 | San Jose
The Market Towers complex, a new downtown San Jose office high-rise that features four towers designed to coalesce into a single striking complex, will redefine the skyline of the nation’s...
24 July 2019 | Cancún
A new shark fin shaped residential tower, known as Shark Tower, is under construction in Puerto Cancún. The building, inspired by the shape of shark fins, is on a mission...
23 July 2019 | Toulouse
The prefecture of Haute-Garonne has published the favorable opinions of the public commission of inquiry concerning the urban project ToulouseEuroSudOuest (TESO), and the building permit of the tower Occitanie. Toulouse...
23 July 2019 | Chicago
A 47-story condo tower known as Cirrus readies to break ground in Chicago. Located steps from Lake Michigan, Navy Pier, Maggie Daley Park, and the Chicago Riverwalk, the development will...
23 July 2019 | Tokyo
A 120-meter tall office tower is planned for a site just behind the Shibuyu Hikarie building, in the Shibuya Station area of central Tokyo. The 30 billion Yen (US$278 million)...
22 July 2019 | Brussels
An architectural team comprised of international firm Rafael de La-Hoz, London studio Perkins + Will, German landscape architects and urbanists Latz + Partner, and Spanish engineering consultants TYPSA and MC2,...
22 July 2019 | Barcelona
The 20-story residences of Mandarin Oriental are set to open their doors within the last quarter of 2020. The former Deutsche Bank building, which saw its plans to be turned...
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