The Tallest Buildings in the World

Two days ago, the all-authoritative Xinhua produly proclaimed that the new building, which is to be named Shanghai Center (we are unsure if this has any relation to the existing Shanghai Center) will be the tallest building east of Dubai at 580 meters and 118 stories. According to them, that’s 72 meters higher than the Taipei 101 Tower, currently the tallest building in Asia at 508 meters.

BusinessWeek and Architectural Record announced the 2007 Architectural Awards.
The submissions are:

1. Award of Excellence - InterActiveCorp Headquarters - New York
Architect: Gehry Partners/Studios Architecture

2. Award of Excellence - Young Center For The Performing Arts - Toronto
Architect: Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects
3. Award of Excellence - U.S. Census Bureau Headquarters - Suitland Md.
Architect: Skidmore, Owings & [...]

Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest skyscraper, is facing construction delays of at least a year after a leading contractor on the project went bankrupt, leaving the tower without any external walls.
Work that should have begun in the first quarter of last year won’t start until April at the earliest following the collapse of Switzerland-based Schmidlin [...]

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has started construction on a 75-story helix-shaped tower in the Dubai Marina, one of the wealthy Emirate’s prime residential
neighborhoods. The “dancing” skyscraper, to be named Infinity Tower, will rotate 90 degrees as it rises while maintaining a constant floor-plate throughout its
height. SOM Managing Partner George Efstathiou, AIA, predicts that the tower’s winding shape will make it the marina’s principal landmark, and perhaps a
symbol of Dubai itself. According to Efstathiou, the building will offer its residents views of the waterfront without disrupting the vistas of neighboring buildings.The
995-foot-high tower will comprise 456 residential units, ranging from studios to full-floor penthouses. It

Developer Peter Wang is planning a 63-story skyscraper in downtown Oakland that could become the tallest building in the Bay Area.
Originally proposed as the home of the University of California"s systemwide offices, the project has morphed into a more ambitious form, with extra floors, a hotel and enough leasable commercial space to make it [...]

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP has won an international competition in China to design one of the most environmentally-sustainable buildings in the world, the
Chicago-based architecture and engineering firm announced today. SOM — in cooperation with the Guangzhou Pearl River Engineering Construction Supervision
Corp., and Guangzhou Design Institute — will design Pearl River Tower, a 69-story corporate headquarters, for the CNTC Guangdong Company. The tower will be
located in Guangzhou China, a subtropical port city of 6.6 million located 182 kilometers from Hong Kong. “This project represents our commitment to sustainable
design,” SOM Managing Partner Thomas Kerwin said. “It also represents our commitment and spirit of mutual collaboration