Kuwait is building the world’s tallest tower at 1,001 meters in Madinat al Hareer, also known as the City of Silk. When completed, the Burj Mubarak al-Kabir will beat a residential tower undergoing construction in Dubai estimated to rise between 700 to 800 meters.
The Ras al Khaimah Convention and Exhibtion Centre looks a lot like something out of Star Wars. Unlike the traditional high-rise building, the design for the Ras al Khaimah Convention and Exhibition Centre accommodates all primary functions, such as the convention centre, hotel rooms, apartments, offices and retail space in a giant sphere.
The city’s planning board has endorsed a proposal for a twisting lakefront tower that would become the nation’s tallest building.
With Thursday’s approval from the Chicago Plan Commission, the design and site plan for the 2,000-foot Chicago Spire goes to the city zoning committee next week.
“This is a wonderful project, and everyone is very enthused,” [...]
The City of Guangzhou - host city to the 2010 Asian Games is also set to house one of the world’s tallest buildings. The new TV Tower will be one of the tallest buildings in the world - reaching 610m in height and is hoped will attract 10,000 visitors daily. The 610-metre-tall twisted, tapering [...]
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 [...]
Dubai Tower to be Solar-PoweredTopic: Innovations Forget the
kilometer-high Burj Dubai under construction in the Persian Gulf’s fast-
growing city-state. A British consortium is building something even wilder,
which surely qualifies as the world’s largest bona-fide gadget: The Time
Residences tower, a solar powered skyscraper that will use the electricity
thus generated to rotate through 360 degrees. “We didn’t want to build
just another building or tower, we wanted to create something unique - a
precious place to live - a genuine contender to be one of the great
buildings in the world,” said Tav Singh, director of Dubai Property Ring,
the Dubai arm of UK-based property investors UK Property Group. The
completed
Whatever next for the Arabian city that has an artificial ski slope covered
in snow even when the temperature hits 50C? Not to mention the world’s
tallest building, some 7,000 metres (2,300 ft) high, rising above palm-
shaped artificial archipelagos in the warm waters of the Persian Gulf. Oh,
and a growth rate of 16% and a population where foreigners in need of
“luxury” homes outnumber locals. Well, what about the world’s first
rotating skyscraper? Commissioned by the Dubai Property Ring, a firm of
UK-based developers, the 30-storey apartment block will use solar energy
to power 20 electric motors that will rotate the tower through 360 degrees
over the course
Approximately 805 tons of steel are being produced in Luxembourg to create the first 27 “extra-large” steel columns of the Freedom Tower, World Trade Center
developer Larry A. Silverstein, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey executive director Kenneth J. Ringler Jr. and Tishman Construction Corporation
chairman Daniel R. Tishman announced July 27. The steel will serve as part of the below-grade structure for the historic Freedom Tower and will be delivered to
the World Trade Center site by the end of the year. Production of the first steel for the Freedom Tower began this week at a plant in Differdange, Luxembourg
that specializes in producing the heaviest I-beams available in
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
MANAMA: Bahrain could become home of the world’s tallest skyscraper
if a project by Danish company Henning Larsens Tegnestue A/S gets the
go-ahead. Company project director Louis Becker, who was in Riyadh
yesterday, is planning to have a meeting about the proposed project with
a building contractor in Bahrain later this week. The company’s design for
a skyscraper measures 1,022 metres - double the Taiwan Taipei 101,
which is currently the world’s tallest building at 506 metres. It was chosen
by the Bahrain contractor because of the company’s previous
experiences of building in Saudi Arabia, according to a report in the
Copenhagen Post. The company designed both the Foreign Affairs
Ministry in
