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17-06-2013 > New Elevator Tech Promises Lift Revolution

No ImageOne of the biggest limiting factors of how tall a building can go is the current vertical transportation technology limits. A new breakthrough by KONE however may have raised this just a little more thanks to a new steel rope method.

16-06-2013 > Star View Offers Swimming In The Sky

Star View, BangkokBangkok these days seems to have a constant stream of skyscrapers coming online that offer condominium living for Thailand's burgeoning middle-class. One of the latest of these to begin construction is the twin tower development of Star View.

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09-06-2013 > Hassells Moonlight Tower

Moonlight Tower, ZhuhaiHassell Studio has designed a sleak new skyscraper for the Hengqin International Finance Centre development in the city of Zhuhai.

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16-05-2013 > Dubai Skyscraper Sales Point To Recovery

DAMAC Towers by Paramount, DubaiPerhaps one of the best examples yet that the residential market in Dubai is leaving recession and starting to expand again is the news that DAMAC Towers by Paramount is selling far ahead of expectations.

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07-05-2013 > Farrells Design Chosen For Nanning

Nanning Centre, Nanning.Designs have surfaced for a twin tower supertall development by leading British architecture firm Farrells, the Nanning Centre in China that will be constructed in the city the scheme takes its name from.

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01-05-2013 > Smith + Gill Design Mumbais Future Tallest

Imperial Tower, MumbaiSupertall specialists, Smith + Gill, have penned what will be one of the tallest buildings ever constructed in India, the Imperial Tower.

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27-03-2013 > Atkins Luxurious Chinese Mountain

Atkins Chinese ProjectConstruction work has begun on what will be yet another supertall skyscraper for the People's Republic of China from British design firm Atkins.

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10-03-2013 > BIG Pile Of Lego

Rose Rock International, TianjinDanish architecture firm BIG has designed a stonking huge megatall skyscraper for a key site in the city of Tianjin in the People's Republic of China.

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05-05-2013 > Work Begins On Biggest Public Housing in NYC

Hunters Point South, New YorkSite preparation has begun for the first phase of a huge scheme on the eastern river front of Queens in New York called Hunters Point.

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04-04-2013 > RMJMs Shenyang Megatall Entry

Baoneng Shenyang Super HighriseAward winning Scottish architecture practise, RMJM, has submitted a competition entry for a new megatall skyscraper in the Chinese city of Shenyang that once complete is intended by the local authorities to be by far the tallest building in the city.

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17-03-2013 > Chinese Plan Worlds Largest Exhibition Centre

China South City, NanningThe People's Republic of China is in love with massive planned developments that effectively constitute entire new city quarters injecting modernity en masse into its population centres. There is perhaps nowhere this is more obvious than Nanning on the Vietnamese border where a sprawling 420 acre site has known as South City is planned.

Putting the project into perspective, Hyde Park in London, one of the largest urban green spaces in the world is only 350 acres.

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22-02-2013 > British Firms Win Kingdom Tower Contract

Kingdom Tower, Saudi ArabiaTwo major British construction companies have had a big win securing contracts on what will be the next tallest building in the world, The Kingdom Tower.

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