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…
News Neinor targets Basque Country with affordable twin-tower scheme Spanish developer Neinor Homes will invest €30m in building two towers in the Basque Country with a combined 135 affordable apartments.
News Three buildings top out in Amsterdam’s 750-home parkside residential complex 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…
News Powerhouse Company’s revamp of Eindhoven’s Bunker celebrates “raw glamour” of brutalism 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…
News Peab to build 397 apartments in booming Gothenburg Nasdaq-listed Swedish builder Peab has won a $54m contract (SEK 565m) to build five apartment buildings with a total of 397 units in Sweden’s Gothenburg, one of Europe’s fastest growing…
News IJM Construction to build chip plants and a tower in Penang, Malaysia The construction arm of Malaysian conglomerate IJM Corporation has won two contracts worth US$94m in the Malaysian state of Penang. One is a $76m contract from ASE Electronics, the Malaysian…