6 Columbus Circle is the latest in an increasing stream of incredibly slender towers proposed for sites in Manhattan that are often needle-thin. Read More Political troubles not withstanding Iraq should be a rich country, and one with the trappings of its neighbours which includes supertall buildings. Bearing this in mind the forward looking Provincial Council of Basra has hired Mott MacDonald to come up with a feasibility study for a city district that includes a 240 floor building that would be the tallest building in the world. Read More Designs have been unveiled for what will be the tallest building in the City of London, 1 Undershaft. Read More Working for Great Western Developments, a joint venture for Sellar Property Group and Hotel Properties Limited, Renzo Piano has designed this new skyscraper to sit on the Royal Mail site next to one of London's busiest railway stations. Read More The Red Road flats in Glasgow, perhaps the greatest symbol of high-rise mania in the city in the sixties and more recently how it all went wrong have been demolished. At least partially. Read More The Emporium might sound like a new-age crystal market stall but it's actually a proposed mid-rise student tower for the heart of Birmingham. Read More |
Situated off Stratford High Street is another planned tall building for London's newest postcode, this time called The Collective. Read More StockWool, formerly Stock Woolstencroft, has designed a collection of new mid-rise residential towers to stand on the Whitechapel Central site on the fringe of the city of London for developer London & Quadrant. Read More One of the most notable unbuilt developments of the last property cycle in Manchester was the three-block Origin, a collection of prismatically shaped buildings designed by Ian Simpson Architects. Read More Heeton Holdings leading a consortium of developers from Singapore that also includes the Lian Beng Group, Ryobi Kiso Holdings, and KSH Holdings has purchased the infamous British Gas site in Leeds, presently occupied by a decaying sixties tower, complete with broken windows and graffiti. Read More |