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SnowWorld rented its roof to solar company Energy Vision, who paid for the installation (Courtesy of Renolit Alkorplan)

Belgium gets a solar-powered ski slope

Indoor ski slope SnowWorld Antwerp in Belgium has put 1,452 solar panels on its vast roof. The transformation came about after SnowWorld rented its roof to solar company Energy Vision,…

Two explosions brought down the chimney stack and the cooling tower in seconds (Images courtesy of RVA Group)

RVA blows up French power station

The 3,770-panel array generates enough electricity to power 1,300 homes (Photograph courtesy of Ferrovial)

Ferrovial completes strategic floating solar plant in Madrid

The new Darwin Bridges on Nuns’ Island used 40,000kg of ground, recycled glass (Photographs by Stéphane Brügger)

Montreal’s new bridges made with 70,000 wine bottles

How they built Asia’s largest timber building

Nearly there: Previewing the Grand Egyptian Museum

The project begun in 2014 set out to create a ‘modest and humble yet resilient and progressive’ building (©Florent Michel/Courtesy of Christ & Gantenbein)

‘Not an icon’: Swiss architects finish no-nonsense social housing scheme in Paris

Congested Jakarta inaugurates new light rail system

What’s it like to build in Antarctica?

Foundations laid for Milan’s Olympic ice hockey arena

Acrow supplies four temporary bridges for I-94 revamp in Michigan

To build the Samaritan Court Ambulatory Care and Surgery Center in San Jose, Skanska identified snagging risks before work began and, for the first time, used an autonomous robot that prints full scale 2D plans directly onto floor slabs (Image courtesy of Skanska)

How Skanska built this medical building three months early, saving $3m

Together, the four buildings use more than 2,500 cubic metres of stone (All photographs ©JulienHourcade/Used with permission)

‘Not since Haussmann!’: Residents move into new Paris quarter built with stone

A rendering showing how Marina Towers will look when it is finished (Hill International)

Hill reports on progress of flagship El Alamein tourist complex

It projects simple solidity out of respect for the medieval old town, but a closer inspection reveals “a rational, modern arch-like reinforced concrete construction” (All images ©Stefano-Graziani/Courtesy of Christ & Gantenbein)

Deceptively old New Aare Bridge opens in Switzerland

Greenland’s capital Nuuk, with 17,000 inhabitants, lies under the 1,250m peak of the country’s famous mountain, Sermitsiaq (Oliver Schauf/Public domain)

‘Arctitecture’: Designing a Greenland school that fits in

A new octagonal operations tower will give 360-degree views of the runway, wharf and station buildings at the station (Photographs by Christopher Robert Lloyd)

New research building in Antarctica sealed in time for winter

Daintree is cut off from Queensland’s electricity grid and its over-reliance on diesel has led to a decline in health for local people and damage to the region’s environment (Annette Teng/CC BY 3.0)

Arcadis designs solar microgrid for remote northern Queensland

J.F. White Contracting is replacing four functionally obsolete bridges built in the 1960s. Acrow’s 500-foot-long detour bridge is seen here crossing over Route 5 and a railway (Courtesy of Acrow)

Dead bridges: How modular viaducts are keeping the I-91 open in Massachusetts

A study of 64 projects shows clear correlation between higher site-area use and programme achievability (Scott Blake/Unsplash)

On average, 54% of projects’ site areas lie idle. Is that okay?

The 185m-high Atlantis The Royal has 795 rooms and 231 serviced apartments (image courtesy of Besix)

Beyoncé sings at opening of Dubai’s new landmark hotel

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