The go ahead has been given to what will be New Zealand's tallest skyscraper. Named the Elliott tower it will have a finished height of 218 metres.
The original design for the tower was penned by ADC Architects but the project was taken over and completed by Gordon Moller, who incidentally happens to be the Chair of the Auckland City Council Urban Design …
Proposals have been put forward for what could well become South Australia's most iconic building in Adelaide.
Rising 123 metres or 31floors, spanning 40 metres in width and with a price tag of an estimated $100 million, the all glass building would be one of the biggest office developments in the city.
Planned for the heart of Adelaide's Central Business …
Brisbane, Australia is set to soar to new heights with a new 265 metre tall mixed-use building called Vision.
Developer Austcorp and the architect the Buchan Group have already worked on an almost identical project for the site that has already been approved by the local planning authorities at 246 metres but the Austcorp now hopes that this will be …
The groundbreaking ceremony has been held to mark the start of construction on what will be for now at least, the world's second tallest skyscraper, Shanghai Tower which will be located not surprisingly in Shanghai, China.
Standing at an impressive 632 metres, the tower is the work of American based architects Gensler and together with the famous towers, Jin Mao and the Shanghai World Finance …
The Walt Disney empire is to buy the superheroes stable Marvel Entertainment for $4bn (£2.5bn) in a star-studded Hollywood deal that unites family names such as Mickey Mouse with lucrative characters including Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and the X-Men.
Whereas places like Dubai mark their emergence with a hedonist splurge of tall buildings, India is setting itself apart by focusing as much on the spiritual side of life.
The Maitreya Project in Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, which has been developed by a group of Buddhists who fled from Tibet is the latest of these.
It features a monumentally large temple topped by a 152 metre tall Maitreya statue …
Construction work is beginning on yet another tall building in Shanghai, this time designed by Skidmore Owings and Merrill.
The scheme called White Magnolia features a curving 66 storey, 320 metre tall office tower and two adjacent hotel towers sat on a common base, both substantially shorter that respond to and mimic the taller building with their similar crescent-like curves.
President Obama wins Noble Peace Prize [poll inside]
Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:22 am by Link
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said he would accept the Nobel Peace Prize “as an affirmation of American leadership” after receiving the award just nine months into his term and without the record of achievement of past laureates.
“I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative …
This dude broke the world record of the most text messages sent in 1 month 662,258 texts with his iPhone 3GS. The bill was packed in three boxes because it was 13,000 pages long.
The statue will be free for viewing, but it will only stay up for two months. It will be built with fiberglass-reinforced plastic over a steel frame so it can be disassembled later. The head unit will move and the body will have 50 points that will emit light. Mist can shoot forth from 14 locations on the body. The park is just four trains …