California governor Gavin Newsom will use a new law to try and expedite a $2bn mixed-use development with low-income housing near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. The 3ha “Fourth…

Mercedes-Benz has announced plans to develop an apartment block in Miami, designed by New York’s SHoP Architects on behalf of US real estate company JDS Development Group. “Mercedes-Benz Places” will…

Dutch architect UNStudio and Luxembourg’s HYP Architects have won a competition to design the Kyklos building, a mixed-use project with sustainability at the heart of its design. Kyklos is located…

Construction has begun on the 17.5-acre “One Beverly Hills”, a mixed-use project with a hotel, two residential towers, retail pavilion, conference centre and botanical gardens, designed by UK-headquartered architect Foster…

Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has unveiled its design for the “Freedom Plaza”, a civic and cultural hub on the shores of Manhattan’s East River. The project, which is being developed…

French engineer Eiffage has won a €92m contract to renovate the 25,000 sq m “Cristallis” project in northern Paris’ ninth arrondissement. The three buildings that make up Cristallis will in…

Chicago architect Goettsch Partners (GP) has won a competition to design a 111,500-sq-m urban renewal project in Jinan, capital of the province of Shandong in northeast China. The mixed-use scheme…

Real estate company Matteson Capital has filed a request to increase the height of its mixed-use Legends Tower in Oklahoma 581m, which would make it the tallest building in the…

A disused car factory in Warsaw is to be regenerated as a 62ha “green district of the future”, with homes for 17,000 residents and 13,000 jobs by 2050. The scheme…

Saudi Arabia has announced plans to build a jagged tourist resort on the Red Sea as part of its Neom programme of megadevelopments. The Siranna district will be formed of…

A team made up of Dutch firms MVRDV and Orange Architects has revealed designs for three buildings in Nuvo, a mixed-use project that will be built on a former industrial…

Beijing-based architect MAD has revealed its plans to transform a cement factory warehouse in Shanghai into a waterside “ark”. The Shanghai Zhangjiang factory, which closed in 2013, will be turned…

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has signed a memorandum of understanding to design seven mixed-use buildings on Qetaifan Island North in Qatar. The $271m deal with conglomerate JMJ Group and real…

Dutch architect UNStudio has designed the four-tower, mixed-use Hiwell Amber Centre in Hangzhou, southeast China. The complex contains two residential towers, an office tower, and a tower containing a hotel…

Dutch architect UNStudio has designed a 10,000 sq m, mixed-use project for Düsseldorf’s northern city centre. The “New Heart” development will contain two towers, the taller of which will be…

People have started moving into a new mix-use quarter in Paris built predominantly with stone. It is “the largest building site using solid, load-bearing stone since Haussmann!” says its architect,…

Dutch architect KCAP and France’s V2S Architectes have won an international design competition for a mixed-use complex in the new ZAC Aerospace neighbourhood on the edge of Toulouse. A 25m-wide…

Designs have been unveiled for the Indy Eleven, a 20,000-seat soccer stadium that will become the centrepiece of the $1bn Eleven Park neighbourhood, a mixed-use project in downtown Indianapolis. Eleven…