The Council on Tall Buildings and the Urban Habitat has named the Shanghai World Financial Center the “Best Tall Building Overall” for 2008. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) and completed last year, the building was chosen from among four “Regional Tall Building” winners, including The New York Times Building by Renzo Piano Building Workshop [...]
The global financial crisis has assured that Emaar’s Burj Dubai would continue to remain the tallest skyscraper, atleast for a decade, and would keep up the region’s pride, say analysts. Although, several other projects were announced that claimed to surpass Burj Dubai’s height, analysts now agree that all such projects would require several billions for [...]
Anybody involved in real estate is probably aware of how the current financial crisis is slashing construction starts worldwide. Yet another alarming indicator shows up in the database of Emporis GmbH, the world’s largest provider of global building data. Looking only at skyscrapers, which Emporis defines as buildings at least 100 meters tall, work has [...]
