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…

The 3D-printing phase of Europe’s largest printed housing project, has been completed in Holstebro, west Denmark. Called “Skovsporet” (the forest trail), the project comprises 36 student apartments ranging from 40-to-50-sq-m…

Construction has begun on The Sax, a saxophone-shaped residential development in Rotterdam, touted as the Netherlands’ “most densely occupied area” by architect MVRDV. The Sax will have 916 apartments across…

Singapore has added 800 hectares – 8 sq km – of dry, below-sea-level land to its constrained footprint with its first “polder” at the northwestern tip of Pulau Tekong. With…

London-listed real estate company Dar Global will build the $1bn Trump Plaza Jeddah, a mixed-use project on King Abdulaziz Road in Saudi Arabia’s second-biggest city. It will have serviced apartments…

Canada yesterday launched a US$9.4bn (CAN$13bn) plan to build what the government called “deeply affordable” housing at scale, using prefabricated modular methods and mass timber to build on federally owned…

German contractor Züblin and technology firm Instatiq are testing the boundaries of 3D printing by printing the top floor of a four-storey apartment building on site in the small city…

US contractor Gilbane has been selected to build 1,000 homes across 55 acres for the $1bn redevelopment of Calvert Square and Young Terrace in Norfolk, Virginia. The development aims to…

Work on what will be Greece’s tallest building, the Riviera Tower, has surpassed the halfway mark, reaching 113m towards its final 200m height. Twice as tall as Greece’s current tallest…

UK-headquartered Balfour Beatty has broken ground on a $260m luxury apartment building in southwestern Washington DC for developer Republic Properties. The 356-unit building at 1301 Maryland Avenue South West, called…

Agreement has been reached on a $500m housing project that will build 4,175 homes in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, according to Ethiopian website The Reporter. The Chaka Housing Project…

The city of Amsterdam says it has taken a “major step” in its plans to develop a residential district in the southwest of the city. Funds have been made available…

As tech companies invest heavily in big data centres to meet demand for cloud computing and AI, people in Tokyo’s greater metropolitan area are mounting opposition over concerns about about…

Dutch architect MVRDV has designed the 25-storey “Out of the Box” residential tower for the Win Sing Development Company in Taipei’s northern Tianmu neighbourhood. It has a jagged marble façade…

Cimic subsidiary Leighton Asia has been awarded a $130m contract by Indian real estate company Elan Group to build a residential project in Gurugram, a city on the southwest outskirts…

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has unveiled its design for the Oystra residential development, a 128,000 sq m project that will contain 950 units, ranging from one-bed apartments to villas. The…

A group of investors and construction companies have put forward plans to build a new town on the site of a Tata Steel plant at IJmuiden, near the coastal village…

Australian contractor Leighton Asia has been chosen to construct six high-rise residential towers in Mumbai for local developer Godrej Properties. In all, the 44-storey towers will provide almost 500,000 sq…