March 16, Singapore

Marina Bay Sands in Singapore is a project by Moshe Safdie and Associates. The south-east Asian city-state of Singapore – an internationally renowned financial center and, with its very busy port, one of the largest and most modern freight handling centers in the world – is also striving to become a top tourist destination...more

March 16, London

Allies & Morrison has bagged mayoral backing for a huge 101ha redevelopment scheme masterplanned for Brent Cross and Cricklewood, north London. The controversial scheme for a new town includes massive transport improvements, new schools, affordable homes, health facilities and park land. It aims to create 27,000 new jobs for Barnet...more

March 15, Australia

Australia circa 2050, population 35 million, climate change induced rising sea levels have flooded the Gold Coast resort region, apartment blocks are now used to grow food and people commute in monorail pods above the sea. In another city, Australians live on floating island pods with apartments both below and above sea level...more

March 15, San Francisco

The San Francisco Planning Commission will again take up the proposed 38-story 555 Washington Street tower, designed by Heller Manus for developer Andrew Segal. During the last meeting, in which the commissioners failed to reach a consensus, a community activist asked them, “Does ‘new urbanism’ say that we have to fight suburban sprawl by putting 400-foot buildings everywhere in San Francisco?”...more

March 15, New York

'Valdrade' skyscraper aims to tackle the problem of monofunctional densities in Manhattan by redefining the city's space based on three interdependent venues: density, sustainabilty and diversity. It seeks to reconsider the city as a true ecosystem that is able to manage itself through self-sufficiency and self-generation...more

March 15, Miami

Miami Dade College is getting an eye-popping new campus center poised for LEED certification. To be located on Biscayne Boulevard in downtown Miami, the building is an extruded quadrangle shape that, along with a striking glass and steel exoskeleton, maximizes natural ventilation and public spaces for the students to enjoy...more

March 15, Chicago

A lot of skyline-watchers are going to ponder about the Elysian, a new hotel and condo tower that aspires to re-create the elegance of 1920s Paris. Nearly 100 years after modern architects promised to remake the world with their revolutionary creations of steel and glass, most of America still prefers to live in colonials, Georgians and other types of traditional design...more

March 15, Rio de Janeiro

The advance of technology and science continues to redefine our lives with exciting and mesmerizing results. However, the rushing growth we have witnessed over the past century has left us with a global ecosystem struggling to survive. This is a proposal for an archetype that aims to help restore the harmony of human existence on Earth...more

March 14, New York

Chelsea became a one-stop-shopping destination for high-style contemporary architecture as well as high-end art, and the results can be depressing. For every significant building that went up, the neighborhood seemed to produce a half-dozen or so inferior knockoffs. Jean Nouvel’s new residential tower, at the western end of 19th Street, is...more

March 12, Leeds

ISIS Waterside Regeneration’s vision for the Granary Wharf site has been realized as the twenty-one story cylindrical residential building called ‘Candle House’ officially launched. The launch marks the completion of the final stage of development at Granary Wharf, which has undergone a £90 million face lift...more

March 12

April 2010, the first tenants may finally be able to move into Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, now the tallest building in the world. Despite a series of setbacks since its ostensible opening two months ago, including the closing of the observation deck, the tower has already prompted an exuberant proliferation of record-breaking statistics...more

March 12, Paris

Paris requires 70,000 new housing spaces per year, yet the image of the city becoming extremely compact and elevated causes fear. All new ideas need time to make their way into people’s minds. Ideas called ”harebrained” soon become “interesting”, then “imaginable”, and perhaps one day “obvious”. The principle of densification, as an anti-urban sprawl solution, has been proposed for a number of areas of the city...more

March 12, London

Work to install three wind turbines at a huge new Hamiltons-designed tower in south London is due to be completed. The turbines are designed to contribute 8% of the 43-storey Strata building’s total energy consumption when the 408-apartment block at Elephant & Castle is completed in May, 2010...more

March 12, Guadalajara

In Guadalajara, JDS architects will be designing a 280,000 m2 mixed-use master plan complex, which is meant to consolidate the new urban center of the city and will hopefully become an important symbol of growth and power in the second largest city in Mexico...more

March 12, Dubai

Developers of the 20 million sq ft Dubai Pearl have announced their collaboration with Singapore Sotheby's International Realty to encourage international funding for the €2.6billion luxury project. Pearl Dubai FZ LLC is to commence a road show across key Asian hubs and seek high net-worth investors...more

March 11, Shenzhen

Another unusual looking skyscraper is to start construction in the Chinese boomtown of Shenzhen situated near the border between the Peoples Republic and Hong Kong. The Coop Himmelb(l)au design for the China Insurance Group will be 200 metres tall and 49 floors when complete...more

March 11, Bangalore

Bangalore’s latest urban expansion, designed by Andy Fisher workshop, was launched as a blueprint for future sustainable developments by Patel Realty. The 50 hectare development has been formulated to encompass environmental strategies, business incubators, commercial facilities, social, recreational and lifestyle needs...more

March 10, New York

Frank Williams, an architect whose sleek towers incorporating crisp geometric shapes in many of their facades made a significant mark on the New York skyline, died on Feb. 25 in Manhattan. He was 73. In a career of more than four decades, Mr. Williams was the lead architect or collaborated with other prominent designers on 20 buildings in Manhattan...more

March 10, Kyiv

The Ukraine may be in something of an economic funk right now, but despite that skyscraper building continues in the country's capital regardless. Part of this stream of projects is Victory Towers, a twin 229 meter tall development with 55 floors in each of the skyscrapers and a huge shared basement between them...more

March 10, London

Studio RHE have submitted planning drawings to the Borough of Newham, one of London’s poorest boroughs, in an effort to develop the area with a new residential Eco-tower. The sleek 24 storey building named Silvertree is wrapped with coloured panels on 2 sides, which provide not only solar shading but also...more

March 10, Mumbai

Eight years after construction began in 2002 at the Imperial twin towers project in Mumbai, its developers have finally received the mandatory occupancy certificate to start handing over homes to buyers. The Rs1,200 core project, India’s most expensive residential address, has been bogged down by legal issues over the dangers its construction...more

March 10, Chicago

The CTBUH is saddened to learn of the recent passing of architect Bruce Graham, formerly with Skidmore Owings and Merrill. His influence on the Council’s hometown of Chicago was profound; one cannot look upon the city skyline without seeing the influence of Graham’s legacy, including the Willis Tower and John Hancock Center...more

March 10, Jakarta

This water purifying skyscraper, dubbed the Ciliwung Recovery Project (CRP), was designed for the rivers of Jakarta. The project provides housing and features an integrated filtration system consisting of a series of tubes that pump and purify waters from the region's polluted rivers...more

March 10, Qatar

KEO has announced the completion of their designs for a mixed use development on a 70,000 sq m waterfront site in Qatar. 130,000 sq m of office space; 30,000 sq m of retail space and 640 residential units will be provided at Diyar Al-Kuwait in Lusail. KEO describes the design composition as being inspired by traditional courtyard planning...more

March 10, Chicago

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has received and examined detailed drawings of the Burj Khalifa submitted by building owner Emaar, and can now confirm the official building height at 828.00 meters (2716.54 feet), as well as the title of “The World’s Tallest Building”. With the official completion of the building on January 4th...more

March 4, Oak Park, Chicago

Oak Park's village board will hold a special meeting to discuss--and, in all likelilhood, vote on--the controversial plan for a 20-story hotel and condominium tower that is proposed for a prominent downtown corner, just down the street from a cluster of homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright...more

March 4, Bogota

Stepped skyscrapers have long been popular, but few designs have taken it quite as far as this new tower planned for Bogota in Columbia. The development is actually a collection of three interlinked towers called BD Bacata after the area it will stand in. They will be 240 metres, 200 metres, and 120 metres in height with the main tower rising to 66 floors...more

March 4

Model cities are used all over the world for urban planning, architectural proposals and research. But while miniature cities are useful, they’re also a unique kind of art. Older models give us a very real glimpse into what cities looked like in past generations, while new models can help us to visualize what our surroundings will look like in the future...more

March 4, Los Angeles

Hollywood's tallest tower has shed its bones and skin -- and hopefully its reputation as the most cursed building in town. The slender 20-story Sunset Vine Tower that was Los Angeles' first modern skyscraper when it opened to international acclaim in 1963 at Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street has been converted into a luxury apartment building...more

March 4, Dubai

Dubai: Chicago-based Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) says Burj Khalifa builder Emaar has not shared blueprints in order for the 828-meter Dubai skyscraper to be truly certified as the world's tallest structure. "No, we haven't got a blueprint yet, but we'll probably get one sooner or later," Jan Klerks, CTBUH spokesman...more

March 4, Sydney

Almost all the towers in the Lend Lease's proposed $6 billion redevelopment at Barangaroo breach height limits, according to the first publicly available architectural drawings of the scheme. The drawings show the hotel planned for construction on a public pier will be about 10 storeys higher than allowed under the concept plan for the area...more

March 3, Dubai

More than a dozen of us filed into the dark elevator, ready to be whisked up 1,483 feet to the observation deck of the newly minted tallest building in the world. The smooth 60-second ride delivered us to the Burj Khalifa’s 124th floor. People of all ages were making their way around the viewing platform...more

March 3, London

Plans to regenerate the center of Lewisham in east London have taken a major hit following the revelation from local councillors that changing economic conditions have made the proposals unviable. The Arup planned project consists of a number of buildings including two towers that should be about 70 and 77 meters in height...more

March 2, New York

Watch an animation of, and hear I.M Pei talk about, the Hyperboloid – the building that wasn't built. The Hyperboloid was designed in 1954 for Manhattan. Though never built, the plans inspired organic structures around the world...more

March 2, Chicago

Chicago office Krueck & Sexton have completed the restoration of two apartment towers in Chicago by German-American architect Mies van der Rohe. Called 860-880 Lake Shore Drive, the 26-storey glass and steel towers were built between 1949 and 1951. The refurbishment involved re-coating the steel frame facade and...more

March 2, New York

The 2010 March/April issue of Preservation magazine has some stories that explore the related, but occasionally conflicting, agendas of saving old buildings and saving the planet from global warming. Preservation senior editor Sudip Bose examines the greening of the Empire State Building, a project comparable to the greening of Chicago's Willis Tower...more

March 2

Rem Koolhaas's Office for Metropolitan Architecture announced that Ole Scheeren, the Rotterdam-based firm's envoy to Asia and its acknowledged superstar young designer, has split to start his own studio. Scheeren was the director of OMA's Beijing office, and oversaw the CCTV tower project, among others...more

March 2, Newark

Newark, once home to New Jersey’s tallest high-rise but overtaken time and again by the waterfront towers along Jersey City’s Gold Coast, is poised to get back in the game. Carl Dranoff, the Philadelphia developer who unveiled plans in 2008 for a 28-story luxury apartment high-rise, pegs his new Two Center Street at 44 stories...more

March 2, Chicago

William F. Baker, PE, CE, SE, FIStructE, FASCE is to receive the Institution of Structural Engineers' highest accolade, the Gold Medal, for his work as an internationally acclaimed structural engineer. The Gold Medal is awarded to an individual for ‘exceptional and outstanding contributions to the advancement of structural engineering’...more

March 2, New York

April 2009, a crowd gathered on the 80th floor of the Empire State Building to hear of a plan both ambitious and audacious, the details of which had largely been kept secret. The journalists and other parties assembled that day already knew that the Empire State Building was undergoing a $550 million restoration. What may have come as a surprise...more

March 2, Riyadh

Nikken Sekkei has beaten 31 international companies to secure the design and engineering consultancy contract for a new, highly sustainable Saudi Stock Exchange Headquarters building. The SAR1 billion (€179 million) development will rise 50 stories high in new financial heart of Riyadh...more

March 1, Doha

Call it Qatar's two-track real estate development strategy. The gleaming new high-rises in the upscale West Bay enclave answer to Qatar's need for a swanky real estate profile that is in tune with its soaring global aspirations. At the same time, the Gulf state is not about to let go of its traditional moorings, and a newly unveiled development - Musheireb...more

March 1, Chicago

Amid the worst office real estate market in memory, Willis Tower has mounted an improbable comeback. With lower rents and investments in attention-grabbing upgrades that followed a refinancing deal, Willis Tower added leases totaling 880,000 square feet with new and existing tenants and halved its vacancy rate to almost 10%...more

March 1, London

Lee Polisano’s Heron Tower, which will stand 755 ft tall upon completion, is the tallest building in the City of London after surpassing Tower 42’s 600 ft height. Set for completion in March 2011, Heron Tower’s 46 stories will provide over 40,000 sq m of office space in the center of London in an innovative 3-floor village structure...more

March 1, Dubai

Dubai is emerging from the desert sands and more people are moving into the famed city. With limited land available for agriculture, Dubai may soon be in need of an alternative solution for growing food for its residents. One solution could be this Oasis Tower vertical farm designed by Rahul Surin...more

March 1, Tel Aviv

Yet more high-rises with luxury apartments will be sprouting up on the Tel Aviv beachfront. The project, called David Promenade Residences, envisions two towers connected by a ground-level glass structure. One of the towers is to be 25 stories tall and have about 70 apartments...more

Feb 28, Denver

A city is sized up by its skyline, both its might and its imagination. When we look at tall buildings from far away, we don't care about their science — if the elevators are fast or how much energy they consume. We take in how they shape the urban outline, if they are innovative or traditional, if they give the city a personality...more

Feb 28, Hangzhou

Steven Holl Architects of New York have won a competition to design a major urban quarter on a former industrial site beside a lake at Hangzhou, China. The project, which includes several residential towers and an exhibition center, is based on Shan-Shui – “mountain-water” – a Chinese landscape painting style...more

Feb 28, Macau

International architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) has finalized construction for their 'One Central Macau' project. The luxury 400,000 square foot retail facility is part of a grand scale mixed-use development designed by KPF, and completes another key milestone in the city’s continued growth...more

Feb 26, Fujian

A 262-meter-high skyscraper, which will be the highest building in Fujian Province, as well as another two 150-meter-high office buildings, will stand up on the north bank of Yuanboyuan (Expo) Garden in Jimei District of Xiamen. The skyscraper will be located inside the phase II of the Xinglin Bay Business Operations Center, in the mainland districts of Xiamen...more

Feb 25, Canary Wharf

Ever since News International decided they weren't interested the site has been mothballed, but now Canary Wharf has been working on a new design for 25 Churchill Place, the last available plot in the original estate. As before the scheme comes from the pens of KPF but this time features a 108 metre tall mid-rise tower...more

Feb 25, London

Land Securities restart talks for building 20 Fenchurch Street ‘Walkie Talkie’ tower. Shelved for 18 months, the provocative plans for an office tower at 20 Fenchurch street in London, penned by Rafael Viñoly, are being ‘dusted down’ in the hope of a possible restart, according to a spokesperson for property giants Land Securities...more

Feb 25, Long Island City

A 21-story office building in Long Island City which has been in the works since late 2008 is structurally complete. Workers placed the final beam on the Gotham Center tower, topping off what will be Long Island City’s newest skyscraper. The top floors still need to be glassed in, and the interior is not yet finished, but the 28th-Street facility is on track to open in 2011...more

Feb 25, Mexico City

Reforma 432 is a newly planned residential skyscraper to stand in Mexico City with a façade that is nothing if not distinctive. The front of the building which faces on to an existing circular public plaza, Paseo de la Reforma, is based on a triangular framed pattern with glass and steel in a manner similar to that of the corners of Foster's Hearst Tower in New York City...more

Feb 25, Glasgow

Councils could increase recycling rates if they put more focus on high-rise and multi-occupancy homes - historically the hardest-to-reach areas for this service - research for recycling and waste container firm Taylor suggests. The study, conducted by Professor James Baird of Glasgow Caledonian University, surveyed residents of 1,000 North Lanarkshire Council flats...more

Feb 24, Plymouth

Barcelona architect David Mackay has given his backing to plans for a tall building on the site of the old Woolworth's store in Plymouth city center. But the author of the 2003 Vision for Plymouth has called for the city's Design Panel to be recalled to make sure the planned 20-storey tower block is of a good design...more

Feb 24, London

Kokkugia is an architecture studio based in New York and London. Fibrous tower is one of the studio’s projects exploring structures based on fibrous skeletons. The series of studies is based on algorithmic design methodologies, exploring ornamental, structural and spatial order through this lens...more

Feb 24, London

This new tool from Hayes Davidson, the imaging company who come up with so many of those visualizations of London in the future, allows you to play with London's skyline. Showing one of the views towards St Paul's Cathedral from north London that's protected, it allows you to see the London skyline looked like in the past...more

Feb 23, Singapore

Las Vegas Sands Corp. said it will open a portion of the $5.5 billion Marina Bay Sands in Singapore on April 27, 2010. The project's nearly 3-acre SkyPark, which sits atop the hotel-casino's three 55-story hotel towers, will open June 23, 2010 as part of the overall grand opening celebration...more

Feb 23, Leicester

One of the final hindrances to the development of a new business quarter in Leicester looks like it will finally be resolved. Leicester City Council has given planning permission for a replacement building on Charter Street that is being offered to Royal Mail as part of a £9 million deal, although the would-be tenant has yet to agree to moving there...more

Feb 23, Dubai

Geotube is a building proposal designed by the California based architecture firm, Faulders studio for the unique environment of Dubai. The building features a large super structure which will, over time, grow a skin façade on its own. The system utilizes a vertical salt deposit growth system that uses water from the adjacent Persian Gulf...more

Feb 23, Sydney

The Premier, Kristina Keneally, has endorsed a plan to build one of Sydney's biggest hotels more than 100 meters out over the harbor. And the British architect behind the Barangaroo proposal, Richard Rogers, said he had ''no reservations'' about going where no private developer had been allowed to develop before...more

Feb 23, Tokyo

Despite the economic recession, Tokyo's pursuit of height shows no sign of slowing down, providing a lot more opportunities for its residents to enjoy the new facets of the city. The Tokyo Sky Tree, a broadcasting tower under construction in Tokyo's Sumida Ward, is visible from various locations as it grows taller...more

Feb 22, Chengdu, China

The Finnish company PES Architects won a competition for the construction of a high-rise building in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province. The skyscraper, which is to be nearly 200 metres high, will contain offices, a shopping complex, a spa, a congress centre, and a residential hotel...more

Feb 22, London

Construction of KPF’s 43-story skyscraper has pushed its height beyond 138m, making it officially the tallest City building to be built in 30 years. Tower 42 was the tallest completed structure in the city with 42-storeys, it was completed in 1980 and designed by Richard Seifert...more

Feb 22, New York

Designed as a direct descendant of French architect Jean Nouvel’s Parisian landmark Arab World Institute building, his new 23-story residential tower overlooking the Hudson River is nearing completion. Previously known as 100 11th, the tower has been named Nouvel Chelsea in admiration of the architect’s prestige...more

Feb 22, Ghent, Belgium

The Belgian city of Ghent isn't exactly renowned for high-rise buildings but it could soon be getting the tallest building in federal Flanders once it has been complete. The MG Tower is a 126 meter, 24 floors off building that will offer 28,000 square meters of space on an island site near the E40 motorway...more

Feb 22, Beijing

The story of the tower is a conceptual project of Beijing based WAI Architecture Think Tank. The story of the tower proposes a fictional construction of the intellectual urbanistic apparatus, using narrative architecture—which is a mix of narrative texts and images, as a catalyst of possibilities, challenging realities, and tentative alternatives...more

Feb 22, Yerevan, Armenia

After a UIA competition attracting 274 entries, no winner has been appointed for the International Business Centre and Intercontinental Hotel bound for Yerevan in Armenia. Instead a second and third prize were awarded, leaving the design for the Mercedes Benz-led project in the air...more

Feb 20, Gdańsk

Polimeni International LLC plans to erect a new skyscraper in Gdańsk. The commercial developer wants the office building to be one of the tallest structures in the Tri-city area, comprising 36 storeys and standing at 100 metres. It is anticipated that the total usable area will be 40,000 sqm, roughly the same as Gdańsk’s Prorem and Zieleniak office buildings...more

Feb 20, Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv's clean lines and low-rise Bauhaus blocks make it instantly recognizable - but the White City's skyline now looks set to change forever with the unveiling of new development plans. The municipality released details of T.A./5000, a scheme to revamp the town center and provide accommodation for its ever-growing population...more

Feb 19, United Arab Emirates

Sloping towards the open sea, Oppenheim’s luxurious mixed-use tower for the United Arab Emirates is both elegant and a model of efficiency. The pixelated residences comprising the development sprawl fluidly away from the lush garden oasis hidden at its base and onto the sandy beach. The design was conceived specifically to maximize the quantity of units available on the water while minimizing the amount of energy used...more

Feb 19, Chicago

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture LLP announced the launch of an affiliated energy services, engineering and consulting firm, PositivEnergy Practice LLC, with Roger Frechette as the new firm’s founding president. PositivEnergy Practice will conceive, design, implement and manage energy performance, resource management and carbon reduction strategies...more

Feb 19, Chicago

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat is pleased to announce its support of the 2010 Chicago Prize Competition: MINE THE GAP - organized by The Chicago Architectural Club - a single-stage international design ideas competition dedicated to examining one of the most visible scars left after the collapse of the real estate market: the massive hole...more

Feb 19, London

“An impressive 17 different uses packed into one dense urban plot and propelled skyward for 23 storeys”, Elis  — Darbyshire’s hypothetical mixed-use, is yet another “multi-functional monolith that aims to express itself as a regenerative, aspirational and, above all, super-contemporary” edifice of modern living, states the gallery...more

Feb 19, Singapore

With completion due in 2011, construction of the 38 storey addition to the Overseas Union Bank Centre in Singapore is well underway. The original and now landmark 280 m OUB Tower was designed by Japanese Architect Kenzo Tange, and much celebrated upon its completion in 1988 as the tallest building outside of the United States...more

Feb 19, New York

An iconic 79-story skyscraper long planned for Ground Zero that would have been taller than the Empire State Building appears to be dead. Developer Larry Silverstein has proposed a new financing scheme for the troubled site that discards the 1,270-foot Tower 2, sources familiar with the project say...more

Feb 18, China

Over the past a lot has been written about China and its seemingly endless stream of skyscrapers that are sprouting up. There's plenty of growth there, industrialization is happening, the population is moving from the countryside to the city but is that all? What else is behind China's skyscraper boom?...more

Feb 18, Dubai

There appears to be no hint of financial difficulties as far as the developers of Meydan City in Dubai are concerned. Having opened one of the largest horse racing facilities in the world, complete with trackside hotel and destination marina, the other major elements comprising the business, sporting and lifestyle district have gone to construction tender...more

Feb 18, Birmingham

Under construction in Birmingham is a new student development near Aston University on Bagot Street with a seventeen story tower element overlooking Lancaster Street. The project has been developed by the Bagot Street Partnership and features accommodation for 656 students...more

Feb 18, Chicago

Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture has completed the first phase of a comprehensive Decarbonization Plan for the downtown Loop area of Chicago. The product of a year long effort that involved 50 members of the firm’s staff, the plan lays out strategies for helping Chicago achieve a 25% reduction in carbon emissions below 1990 levels by 2020...more

Feb 17,  Amsterdam

Erick van Egeraat’s completed office tower is one part of the mixed use high-rise urban development  Zuid-As, located to the south of Amsterdam’s city center. The office tower has been designed with a ’stacked block’ structure.  Composed of a variety of shifted, light weight  volumes, the aesthetic appearance achieved is one of  ‘heavy materialization’...more

Feb 17, Seattle

A 45-story condo tower — in Federal Way? That's the plan longtime Seattle developer Steve Smith and two Korean-American partners unveiled. The Sky Hotel & Residences would be the tallest building between downtown Seattle and downtown Portland, said Patrick Doherty, economic-development director for the low-rise suburb of 87,000 residents...more

Feb 16, Vienna

Marking the gateway to Vienna towards the east, the Town Town Office Tower in Erdberg is the main element of a developing urban zone. Its location on the subway line and in proximity to the highway to the airport connects the project ideally to the city; with regard to urban development guidelines this offers the opportunity for a distinctive architectonic form...more

Feb 15, Houston

Downtown's historic 712 Main building — the Art Deco skyscraper that houses the Houston headquarters of JPMorgan Chase — has been sold to the Brookfield Real Estate Opportunity Fund. The building was part of a 16-property nationwide acquisition from JPMorgan Chase that included two smaller Houston properties...more

Feb 15, Dubai

We all know that the biggest, and most expensive of just about everything has been used on the Burj Khalifa, but did you realize that the project also broke new ground in machinery terms? We look at some of the tower's PMV landmarks. Piling: There’s more than 600 deep piles involved in the whole Burj Khalifa project...more

Feb 15, London

On a global scale, the United Kingdom simply doesn’t compete with having any significantly tall buildings. In fact, the UK’s tallest building is not even a third as high as the world’s tallest man made structure (Burj Khalifa – Dubai). However, London 2012 skylineThe City of London is planning to expand vertically into the skyline with a collection of brand new buildings...more

Feb 15, Hull

Work will start on Robinson Architects’ £100m Manor Mill development in Hull in time to meet a council-imposed deadline, its developer has insisted. Manor Property Group was given just two years to begin work on the city’s tallest tower when councilors gave it the thumbs-up in November 2008...more

Feb 15, New York

Toren Tower in Downtown Brooklyn, New York is open to occupants. The 38 storey residential condominium tower holds 240 units and is a dramatic addition within its context, one of four new buildings at corners of the Myrtle Avenue/Flatbrush Avenue junction in the regenerating district...more

Feb 15, Beijing

SOM unveiled plans for a new urban center in Beijing’s Dawangjing District that will feature an integrated heating and cooling solution designed to reduce energy use and carbon emissions. The new development will include a central park that utilizes a geothermal heat-exchange system to help passively heat and cool all of the district’s buildings...more

Feb 15, Antwerp

Like most port cities in these days, the Belgian port of Antwerp also tried to revitalize parts of its industrial facilities through residential and cultural buildings. The first step has been completed: Two residential towers, north of Antwerp's city center along the Kattendijkdok, planned by Diener+Diener Architects (Original Article: German)...more

Feb 12, Hanoi

WSP Architectural Design and Benoy Architects have been working on this project in Hanoi that will accommodate Holiday Inn as its main anchor tenant. The 21 storey, 105 meter tall building sits on a one hectare site about 2 miles from the center of Hanoi in the growing Dong Da district, an area that has several other tall buildings at various stages of development...more

Feb 12, Chicago

Skyscraper! The word conjures up soaring towers of steel-and-glass--along with congested streets and blotted-out patches of sky. For years, Chicago has been defined by its skyscrapers, its suburbs by their single-family houses. Yet this age-old dichotomy has little to do with the way we live and work today...more

Feb 12, Dublin

Siptu will lodge a planning application with Dublin City Council to replace Liberty Hall with a significantly taller building, topped by a “sky pod” that would give visitors panoramic views over the city and Dublin Bay. The existing 17-storey building, which is 60m (197ft) tall, would be replaced by a 20-storey tower rising to a height of 84m (277ft)...more

Feb 12, Vancouver

At the unveiled Web site 'Shape Vancouver 2050', users are given a digital model of the Vancouver skyline, the ability to extrude buildings upwards, and a visual gauge of the resulting effects on the city’s downtown. As the user drags the digital towers higher and population density increases, meters at the bottom of the screen go up too—energy saved, carbon use curbed, dollars added to the city coffers...more

Feb 11, Nashville

For employees of Pinnacle Financial Partners and law firm Bass, Berry & Sims, The Pinnacle at Symphony Place is simply where they've been going to work for several weeks. On Feburary 10th, 2010 it was the site of a lavish grand opening, or as the building's Atlanta-based developer, Barry Real Estate Cos. called it, a landmark celebration...more

Feb 11, Madrid

It was the “concrete tree” that enraged purists and led to widespread criticism. But now apartments in the Torres Blancas – Madrid’s controversial high-rise block – can fetch prices of up to one million euros. As its plural name suggests, a second tower was due to be built which never got off the ground...more

Feb 11, Seoul

This nearly 800-foot-tall tower’s pleated curtain wall is more than just an intriguing design gesture. It cleverly allows for angled building integrated photovoltaics in the spandrel panels on the southwest and northwest sides, which receive the most sunlight. This maximizes energy collection along the surface of the tower, while also...more

Feb 11, San Francisco

There doesn't seem to be much middle ground when it comes to a proposed 430-foot condominium tower that would rise next to San Francisco's iconic Transamerica Pyramid. Proponents say it is a creative approach to sustainable development that will add a city-owned downtown park and allow people to live near their work. Critics say...more

Feb 11, Vienna

An official ceremony marked the beginning of building the DC Tower 1 in Vienna's "Donaucity", which at 220 meters high will be the tallest building in Austria. The head of developer WED, announced the news, adding that delay in the beginning of its construction, originally scheduled for 2007, would make the project cheaper than it would have been...more