The Crypto Tower, the world’s first commercial tower dedicated to the decentralised internet and digital assets, is taking shape in Dubai’s southwest Jumeirah Lake Towers district. Local company the National…

The Council on Vertical Urbanism (CVU), formerly known as the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, has named a converted office tower in Brussels – called “ZIN in No(o)rd”…

UK-headquartered Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) and Serbia’s architect Bureau Cube Partners have won a design competition for the mixed-use Alta Tower in New Belgrade, Serbia, set to be the headquarters…

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…

Ethiopia has restarted a project to build the tallest building in sub-Saharan Africa: a $445m, 62-storey headquarters for its state-owned electricity utility, local website Birr Metrics reports.  Ethiopian Electric Power…

What’s claimed to be the world’s tallest printed structure was unveiled this week in the southeastern Swiss mountain village of Mulegns. The 30m-tall “Tor Alva” – which means “White Tower”…

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has invited contractors to bid for the project management role on a 19 sq km “North Pole” business district in Riyadh, which will include…

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has unveiled its design for its first project in Georgia, the 57,000-sq-m, 42-storey Cityzen Tower near the capital Tbilisi’s new Central Park. Built on the site…

Two 100m-tall linked buildings that are the mirror image of each other have topped out in Shanghai. The Infinity Towers were designed by US firm Studio Libeskind and local firm…

German architect Büro Ole Scheeren has unveiled its design for the Urban Glen project in the city of Hangzhou, about 70km southeast of Shanghai. This 800,000 sq ft mixed-use development…

The Australian state of Victoria has approved the first phase of a $1.1bn “anti-ageing utopia” in Melbourne’s Docklands, the Urban Developer website reports. The 2.7ha Elysium Fields project, which is…

Ground has been broken on a global headquarters for shipping company China International Marine Containers Group (CIMC). The building, designed by US architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), is intended…

A developer in the city of Balneário Camboriú in southeast Brazil has announced plans to build the ‘Senna Tower’ in collaboration with the company begun by Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna.

Portugal’s Ooda Architecture has unveiled its design for the mixed-use Bound Tower project: two linked structures that will add a distinctive silhouette to the skyline of Albania’s capital, Tirana. The…

Saudi authorities have been approved plans for a “Global Sports Tower”, a 130m-tall structure with facilities for 30 sports in Riyadh. The 84,000 sq m project will contain a 98m…

Construction has begun on “Legend”, a 190m-tall, mixed-use tower in the central Mexican city of Guadalajara. The tower was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) in collaboration with Mexico…

Dubai developer Select Group is building what it claims will be the world’s tallest residential tower, at 517m, in the Dubai Marina district.

The China Merchants Bank Headquarters in Shenzhen, designed by UK-headquartered architect Foster + Partners, has topped out. Announced in 2019, the 350m-tall tower will contain 310,000 sq m of office…