 Currently taking shape in the amin financial district of Istanbul are a selection of towers for a project called Varyap Meridian, the first eco-friendly designs by RMJM for the area.
Read More Sometimes the anglicisation of building names leads to interesting results you'd never hear in native English. The Cool Tower in Rotterdam is the latest of these, named after the Cool Quarter.
Read More Adding to the growing number of new apartment blocks in the Lebanese city of Beirut is this new design from starchitect duo Herzo and De Meuron.
Read More Foster + Partners has designed the new CITIC Bank headquarters to stand in Hangzhou's Qianjing central business district.
Read More One of the three competing plans for a new cultural district in Hong Kong is this masterplan by Rem Koolhaas's practise, OMA.
Read More Much has been made of the plans for a mosque next to the site of the destroyed World Trade Center in New York but very little seems to have been mentioned of proposals that will see the foundations of the building opened up as part of a new museum and memorial.
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 For decades the primacy of the Empire State Building, an international icon, on the skyline of Manhattan's Midtown has been respected and enforced through strict planning rules but all this has now changed with the approval of a new supertall tower just a few blocks from it.
Read More One of the most interesting tall buildings under construction in Paris right now is undoubtably the 88 metre tall Horizons Building, or Tour Horizon, that has been designed by Jean Nouvel.
Read More As one of the fastest growing urban areas in Asia, the Korean city of Incheon has seen skyscraper after skyscraper but these new plans for a relatively modest building of 115 metres in height promise to throw a new angle on tall building design.
Read More UDG are one of the many architecture firms in Shanghai that have been getting fat on the Chinese skyscraper boom. The latest of the projects that they have designed is the Yunrun International Tower, a 312 metre tall office building to stand in the Chinese city of Huai'an.
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