You probably won't have heard of South Padre Island in Texas, but relatively speaking it's the most high-rise place on earth thanks to the fact it has a population of barely 2,500 people making it technically a village by British standards. Read More What will be the tallest residential tower in New York looks like it is finally going to get underway after months of delays following the completion of the foundations. Read More Couture might be French for clothing, but in the Canadian city of Toronto it could soon mean something else entirely different - a new high-rise condo. Read More Roosevelt University is planning a new high-rise tower that will accommodate hundreds of students in a new glass clad dormitory. Read More Having been bogged down by problems caused by the 2008 financial crisis, one skyscraper that is now back from the dead and rapidly rising in New York's Hell's Kitchen is 440 West 42nd Street. Read More With an amorphous look, a new museum is currently rising in Mexico City in the heart of a new urban quarter, Plaza Carso. Read More |
If you're an aging Texan billionaire there isn't much your children can get you as a present but for Ross Perot, a man worth $3.9 billion, his children have decided to give away $50 million to the Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, Texas. Read More Although work on the planned replacement World Trade Centre skyscrapers can be described as sporadic, at best, one part of the development that is under construction is the transport hub. Read More Reforma 432 is a newly planned residential skyscraper to stand in Mexico City with a façade that is nothing if not distinctive. Read More 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. Read More |