Two 100m-tall linked buildings that are the mirror image of each other have topped out in Shanghai. The Infinity Towers were designed by US firm Studio Libeskind and local firm…

German architect Büro Ole Scheeren has unveiled its design for the Urban Glen project in the city of Hangzhou, about 70km southeast of Shanghai. This 800,000 sq ft mixed-use development…

The Australian state of Victoria has approved the first phase of a $1.1bn “anti-ageing utopia” in Melbourne’s Docklands, the Urban Developer website reports. The 2.7ha Elysium Fields project, which is…

Ground has been broken on a global headquarters for shipping company China International Marine Containers Group (CIMC). The building, designed by US architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), is intended…

A developer in the city of Balneário Camboriú in southeast Brazil has announced plans to build the ‘Senna Tower’ in collaboration with the company begun by Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna.

Portugal’s Ooda Architecture has unveiled its design for the mixed-use Bound Tower project: two linked structures that will add a distinctive silhouette to the skyline of Albania’s capital, Tirana. The…

Saudi authorities have been approved plans for a “Global Sports Tower”, a 130m-tall structure with facilities for 30 sports in Riyadh. The 84,000 sq m project will contain a 98m…

Construction has begun on “Legend”, a 190m-tall, mixed-use tower in the central Mexican city of Guadalajara. The tower was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in collaboration with Mexico…

Dubai developer Select Group is building what it claims will be the world’s tallest residential tower, at 517m, in the Dubai Marina district.

The China Merchants Bank Headquarters in Shenzhen, designed by UK-headquartered architect Foster + Partners, has topped out. Announced in 2019, the 350m-tall tower will contain 310,000 sq m of office…

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…

Work has started on the Burj Azizi, a $1.5bn tower named after Dubai Azizi Developments, which is likely to become the second tallest building in the city after the 828m…

The city of Bologna has begun a €4.3m project to prepare for the possible collapse of its famous, leaning Garisenda Tower, completed in 1119. The 48m-high structure leans at 4…

The 213m-tall, mixed-use Airside Tower has opened in Hong Kong. It was designed by Norwegian architect Snøhetta and located on top of the Kai Tak MTR station on the site…

Dubai’s Samana Developers says all 193 apartments in its $68m Manhattan-1 residential tower in Jumeirah Village Circle have already sold out as the project to build it gets underway. The…

UK-headquartered architect Foster + Partners says it has completed two towers for Vietnam’s Techcombank. Similar in design, one is a 22-storey headquarters for the bank in Hanoi and the other…

Developer Mitsubishi Estate has fired the starting pistol for what will become Japan’s tallest building: the 390m Torch Tower skyscraper near Tokyo Station. The design, by Sou Fujimoto Architects, has…

Work has finished on Brooklyn’s first supertall building: a 325m-high, metal-clad tower designed by New York firm SHoP Architects for the JDS Development Group.