In 2020, Skanska USA completed the $165m, top-to-bottom redesign of the Empire State Building in New York City. A 2023 report by UBS states that partial retrofits can create energy…

An early 1900s rail and tram depot abandoned for almost 20 years in Rome will become a mixed-use private development designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti. The 16,000-sq-m Depositi delle Vittorie…

An American team of Selldorf Architects and the French arm of Studios Architecture has won the Louvre Nouvelle Renaissance design competition for renovating the world’s most visited museum. The scope…

Berlin-headquartered company Ecoworks has won a €23m contract to provide a green renovation of 192 apartments in 12 buildings in Hagen, Northrhein Westfalia to reduce their energy demand by 36%.…

A new report from the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) addresses a growing paradox in Ireland, where 14.5% of office buildings were vacant in 2024 – the highest level on…

No one welcomes construction disputes, but when the initiator is the President of the United States, it’s even less welcome. Last Thursday, President Donald Trump’s director of the Office of…

A 85,000 sq m overhaul of Sydney Harbour designed by Norwegian architect Snøhetta and Australia’s Hassell has been approved by the New South Wales Independent Planning Commission. The project was…

Dutch companies MVRDV and Zecc Architecten have been selected to design a renovation of the  St. Francis of Assisi Church in Heerlen, south east Netherlands, into a public swimming pool…

The main dome of the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul is to undergo the most extensive restoration in its 1,488-year history. One of the main aims of the work…

A former construction consultant for McDonald’s has been charged with bribery after he allegedly accepted a US$10,000 watch. The case has been brought by Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption…

A buildings-in-a-building renovation is underway at an historic airfield in the Swiss capital, Zurich, that will bring a cavernous, 100-year-old hangar back to life again for modern purposes. Established in…

New York’s Mayor’s Office has announced that a $500m renovation and redevelopment project will take place at One and Two UN Plaza, which contains the Manhattan headquarters of the UN…

Two landmark office-tower refurbs in the Belgian capital saved thousands of tonnes of waste and emissions, and showed developers’ appetite for ‘urban mining’. GCR went to investigate Amid the torrent…

Swiss architect Herzog & de Meuron and New York’s PBDW Architects have been selected to renovate 945 Madison Avenue in New York City into the headquarters of art broker Sotheby’s.…

The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has been selected by the government of Western Australia to work with local architect WITH on the refurbishment of the Perth Concert Hall. The…

Construction has begun on a $9bn expansion and renovation project at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), the world’s second busiest by passenger traffic. The first phase of the DFW…

The Pompidou Centre in central Paris is due to close for five years from the summer of 2025 while renovation works take place. These will include upgrades to the 1977…

Chinese EV-maker Nio has opened a flagship European showroom in a 19th-century insurance building in Amsterdam. The building on Amsterdam’s Keizersgracht was built in 1891 for the New York Life…