The revived Mir Stekla’2014 exhibition starts on June 04-06 in the new pavilion of Expocentre Fairgrounds, Moscow. We have grown and moved to pavilion №2. The exhibition is now under one roof; this will allow visitors to effectively organize their root through the exposition and will give an opportunity to find each participant of the exhibition and not to lose the desired contact.
This week Cityscape Global will be held at the Dubai World Trade Centre (UAE), welcoming property experts from around the world to discuss core issues facing the industry and offering a platform from which developers can showcase their latest schemes.
A single rendering has surfaced of an unusually slim tower overlooking Central Park in Manhattan. Designed by SHoP Architects for JDS Development and Property Markets Group, the project site is 105–111 West 57th Street, a stone’s throw from the Museum of Modern art, Fifth Avenue and the aforementioned Central Park.
It is often said that London is one of the hardest cities to build in in the world, with planning permission rarely granted and restrictions rife in the core of the capital.
Mohamed Alabbar, Chairman of Emaar Properties, and Ahmad Bin Byat, Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Holding, today unveiled the joint venture’s masterplan of The Lagoons, a magnificent waterfront city within Mohammed Bin Rashid City (MBR City), inspired and built by the banks of the Dubai Creek, at Cityscape Global, the premier property exhibition. The mega-development for tomorrow’s youth is spread over an area of 6 million sq m (over 1,482 acres).
This new tower for the Cenke Group by HENN is located on the northsouth axis in the centre of the Chinese metropolis of Taiyuan. As well as office space, the building also contains a hotel on its upper floors and a retail area at the basement level.
This site of the new residential Bathurst Tower is on a prominent corner in the centre of the Sydney CBD. The proposal for a 35 storey tower will be a significant element in the CBD skyline. Tony Owen Partners have sought to design a building which provides a world class addition to Sydney as a cosmopolitan international city.
glh., the London-based global hotel subsidiary of Singapore-listed GuocoLeisure Group, has launched an opulent hotel brand by revealing three luxurious hospitality developments in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and the United Kingdom. The three establishments will run under the new brand ‘Clermont’ and in total hold a gross development value of £2.1bn.
This time a year ago World Cities Network was a budding initiative, reaching out to city administrations across the world to encourage change-makers to build more resilient cities. Today the organisation has announced that it is working with the City of Helsinki on a monumental redevelopment project with a tender due to be released in December. The redevelopment masterplan will focus on a site 3km north of Helsinki and create the city’s first high rise business and media district.
Rafael Vinoly’s 20 Fenchurch Street in London, affectionately dubbed the Walkie Talkie for its curved silhouette, has been the focus of much heated debate for its unusual form. Today the project has hit the headlines for a more concerning reason – sunlight reflected off the tower’s façade appears to be causing damage to personal property on the street below.
