This 180m-high Herzog & de Meuron-designed pyramid tower is a proposal for the first skyscraper in Paris for 30 years.
The 50-storey building will be situated in the south-west of the city at the Porte de Versailles.
It has been nicknamed the ‘Delanoë tower’ after the city’s socialist mayor Bertrand Delanoë, who won the fight to bring [...]
Greenest Office Building in the world has more solar panels than any other building in the world
The Qatari government is close to buying most of London’s £400m Shard of Glass development, skyscraper that has not yet been built, Doha Time reported.
Manchester”s skyline entered a new era yesterday as work was
completed on a shimmering tower block which is the UK”s highest
residential building and second only to London”s Canary Wharf among
British skyscrapers. The Beetham Tower, which settles into a vista that
already includes Urbis, a blue glass building shaped like a ski slope, will
become the UK”s tallest residential building when the apartments which
fill its top 24 floors are occupied. It soars 157 metres (515ft), and an
additional glass blade adds an extra 14 metres. The five-star Hilton hotel
will occupy floors 1 to 23, with the penthouse reserved for the architect,
Ian Simpson, who gets five bedrooms,
