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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

Spanish developer Neinor Homes will invest €30m in building two towers in the Basque Country with a combined 135 affordable apartments.

Three buildings have topped out at Amsterdam’s Westerpark West development, a 750-unit residential project masterplanned by Rotterdam architect MVRDV. The 70,000 sq m project is located on the former site…

Dutch architect Powerhouse Company has added an extension to a brutalist former student building in Eindhoven to create a 100m-tall tower. The 32,600 sq ft project will house 210 apartments…