Dutch architect MVRDV has won a design competition for a complex that will house a sports arena, a hotel and apartments all contained in a giant, 100m-diameter ball in Tirana,…

UK-headquartered Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) and Serbia’s architect Bureau Cube Partners have won a design competition for the mixed-use Alta Tower in New Belgrade, Serbia, set to be the headquarters…

Strabag, Austria’s largest contractor, has been awarded a €134m contract to build a 100m-high office tower, shopping centre, hotel and four levels of underground parking in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It’s for…

Foster + Partners has designed “IOTA Seoul I”, a mixed-use development close to Seoul Station. The three-building development includes a six-star hotel, a 34-storey office building, and a new tourism…

Once home to Asia’s biggest cement factory, an awkward waterfront industrial zone in Shanghai is now a stylish culture and leisure district that uses the site’s old, monolithic structures to…

UK-headquartered architect Heatherwick Studio has unveiled the design for “Hatai”, a mixed-use development in Bangkok’s Silom area to be styled as the city’s “Lantern Quarter”. The buildings will take a…

A mixed-use district in the Flemish municipality of Roeselare, northeast Belgium, designed by Norwegian architect Snøhetta and local partner B2Ai, has been completed. Called Roelevard, a portmanteau of Roeselare and…

Indian developer Sobha Realty will build a six-tower mixed-used development on Dubai’s Sheikh Zayed Road containing 1,225 apartments, 15,000 sq m of retail, a 2.3ha park, and 16,300 sq m…

The government of the Maldives and Dubai’s MBS Global Investments have announced plans to build a $8.8bn, 780,000 sq m, mixed-use development. The Maldives International Financial Centre, as it will…

Work has started on Dutch architect KCAP’s mixed-use, 4.3ha “Istropolis” development in Bratislava, Slovakia’s capital. Located in the Trnavské Mýto area, the project will have 70,000 sq m of office…

Strabag, Austria’s largest contractor, has won an €80m deal to build part of a mixed-used project in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana. It will build a 40m-high office building for…

Dutch architect UNStudio has created a masterplan for the site of Expo City Dubai. The 3.5 sq km project will retain 80% of the infrastructure and buildings that were developed…

Los Angeles’ Planning Commission has approved “670 Mesquit”, a mixed-used development at the edge of the city’s Arts District designed by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in association with…

German architect Büro Ole Scheeren has unveiled its design for the Urban Glen project in the city of Hangzhou, about 70km southeast of Shanghai. This 800,000 sq ft mixed-use development…

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has unveiled the design for The Grove, a seafront neighbourhood and marina on Qatar’s Qetaifan Bay. Developed by JMJ Group Holding and Qetaifan Projects, The Grove…

China’s MAD Architects has opened One River North, a 16-storey, mixed-use development in the centre of Denver, Colorado, which contains a crack through the building, displaying a set-back interior inspired…

Somalia has begun work on a 50,000-unit residential project in the coastal Kaaraan district in the north of Mogadishu. Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud laid the foundation stone for the…

The City of Milwaukee has unveiled plans for a $700m downtown development which it says “could include” the tallest mass timber tower in the world and the tallest building in…