Construction of Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah Tower, which will become the tallest building in the world with a height of over 1 kilometer upon completion, has resumed almost seven years after work ground to a halt amid an anti-corruption probe led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. At a ceremony held on the site Wednesday (Oct.2), Kingdom Holding…
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The Isla Brown Corinthia hotel in Greece recently emerged as the winner in the Excellent Architecture Category of the German Design Awards 2024, presented by the German Design Council. Athens-based Elastic Architects was applauded for the redesign of the iconic 1970s Hanikian hotel and its transformation into the Isla Brown Corinthia, nestled on the northern…
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Ecuador’s capital Quito has welcomed the EPIQ tower, a 101-metre-tall skyscraper epitomizing the face of new, sustainable urbanism in the growing city. Created by Danish architecture studio BIG in partnership with Quito-based developers Uribe Schwarzkopf, EPIQ is a 24-story mixed-use development, composed of a single tower in multiple divided blocks or “buildings within a building,” that are connected by…
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Bucharest’s Euro Tower developed by Cascade Group has officially become the first LEED Zero Carbon certified building in Romania. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is the most widely used green building rating system in the world. Available for virtually all building types, LEED provides a framework for healthy, highly efficient, and cost-saving green buildings.…
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