News Trudeau hails ‘most ambitious housebuilding plan in Canadian history’ Canada has announced a plan to ease the country’s housing crisis by leasing public land to developers with a target of getting 3.9 million houses built by 2031, Prime Minister…
News Dubai announces next phase of sold out South Bay development The government of Dubai has announced plans for a fourth phase of its South Bay development, which will add 138 three-to-five bedroom villas, together with a few six and seven…
News MVRDV designs 11 Shenzhen towers for Chinese tech company Tencent Dutch architect MVRDV has unveiled its design for Tencent P5, a residential development in Shenzhen’s Qianhai bay containing 11 apartment towers and a kindergarten arranged around four courtyards. The development…
News Nigeria to build 675ha “Diaspora City” for citizens living abroad Nigeria plans to build a “Diaspora City” for the 20 million of its citizens who live in other countries. The idea is to give emigrants, who together send $24bn back…
Companies Dubai developer plans $3.4bn building spree this year Dubai-based Samana Developers today said it will award 18 construction contracts as it spends $3.4bn on new residential projects in its home city this year. The company will prioritise waterfront…
News SSH lands role on Ellington Views scheme in Ras Al Khaimah Emirati developer Ellington Properties has appointed Gulf-based consultant SSH as lead consultant on its Ellington Views I & II residential towers in Ras Al Khaimah. SSH will provide design consultancy…
News Sacramento starts village of tiny houses for the homeless Work has begun in the City of Sacramento on a village of 175 cabins to shelter some of California’s 181,000 homeless people. They’ll go up on Stockton Boulevard near the…
News Germany’s largest landlord announces €6.8bn loss The largest landlord in Germany reported a loss of €6.8bn last week after writing down the value of its property portfolio. Shares in Vonovia fell more than 7% in the…
News Zaha Hadid Architects designs renovation of modernist Monaco tower Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has planned a renovation of Le Schuylkill Tower, a modernist residential development in Monte Carlo. The 1963 structure contains 188 homes ranging from studio flats to…
News Mercedes-Benz announces 67-storey residential cube in Miami Mercedes-Benz has announced plans to develop an apartment block in Miami, designed by New York’s SHoP Architects on behalf of US real estate company JDS Development Group. “Mercedes-Benz Places” will…
News Work begins on $744m housing project near Ho Chi Minh City Construction has begun on a 19ha, $744m residential project in Vietnam, developed by Singapore’s CapitaLand Group. The new quarter will be located in Binh Duong New City, an industrial centre…
News Ghent industrial site to be converted into residential development by KCAP A former industrial site will be transformed by Dutch architect KCAP into a kilometer-long urban housing development within a park. The Rinkkaai project is located 400m from Ghent’s central Gent-Sint-Peters…
News 518-unit project finished in San Jose’s Japantown Developers Ivanhoé Cambridge and Shea Properties are celebrating the completion of “Sixth & Jackson”, a two-building, six-story, 518-unit, mixed-use project in the Californian city of San Jose’s historic Japantown. They…
News Luxury Dubai tower sells out before construction starts Dubai’s Samana Developers says all 193 apartments in its $68m Manhattan-1 residential tower in Jumeirah Village Circle have already sold out as the project to build it gets underway. The…
News Cimic to build eight towers in Mumbai Cimic subsidiary Leighton Asia has won a US$122m (A$190m) contract from local developer Elan Group to build a 728-unit residential project, “The Presidential”, in the northern Indian city of Gurgaon.…
News Work begins on OMA’s fully affordable San Francisco housing development Construction has begun on 730 Stanyan, a fully affordable residential development in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighbourhood, designed by the Dutch practice Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and local firm…
News MVRDV’s residential project aims to bring sense of home to Uruguayan neighbourhood A construction permit has been awarded to “Ziel”, a 15-storey residential development on the southern tip of Montevideo designed by Dutch architect MVRDV. A series of stacked volumes aims to…
News One Wall Street skyscraper is converted into residences The redevelopment into residencies of an art deco skyscraper in Lower Manhattan has been completed and is now open to the public. One Wall Street, a 1930s office tower designed…