Damac has teamed up with Italian designer Versace to bring this new tower proposal to the rich in Beirut. Read More Skyscraper after skyscraper is being proposed for the Turkish city of Istanbul, with the latest being this tower that looks rather like a crumpled glass box. Read More Fancy going car shopping and taking the test drive on a spin around the roof of the mall? Well soon you might be able to do just that if plans for a new motorcar dedicated shopping centre in Istanbul are realised. Read More Ever since the Gherkin and Torre Aghbar emerged together on the world's architectural stage, eggs have become rather "in". Read More Whilst it's neighbours like Dubai and underwent an architectural boom driven by hopeless optimism and a seemingly unending love of bling, the Bahraini capital of Manama has seen landmark buildings go up that are slightly more visually restrained. Read More Yet another skyscraper project has been designed for Istanbul, one of the most rapidly rising cities in Europe, and a place that seems to have been almost impervious to wider negative economic conditions. Read More |
Rising from the desert outside the Saudi city of Damman like some melted bars of platinum is the planned King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture, a project designed by Norwegian architects, Snøhetta. Read More It should be the latest under construction building by the starchitect Jean Nouvel, but The Landmark in Beirut has yet to see the substructure begin after things haven't gone exactly to plan. Read More Today the Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building, opens in a lavish celebration in Dubai amidst financial turbulence that almost consumed the Emirate. Read More Dubai may be going pop but it's neighbour Abu Dhabi remains as rich, and ambitious as ever, something evidenced by this scheme for an entirely new city in the Middle-Eastern emirate that's intended to be completely self-sustaining. Read More |