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‘Hotel in nature’: Inside the world’s best new skyscraper

Featuring vast creeper-clad columns and a series of soaring sky terraces, this Singaporean high-rise has just been named the best new tall building in the world.

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Dubai’s Burj Azizi tower to become world’s second tallest building.

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Dubai is home to world’s tallest skyscraper. Now it’s building the second-tallest, too

Egypt is building a new city, known as the "New Administrative Capital," 30 miles east of Cairo. Construction on the 270-square-mile area began in 2016, and once complete it could hold as many as <a href="https://www.dar.com/work/project/new-administrative-capital" target="_blank" target="_blank">6.5 million residents</a>. The government says its goal is to bring relief to overcrowded Cairo, but critics believe it is diverting resources from other needs.

Hydrogen-powered skyscraper set for Egypt’s new capital

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See inside Jennifer Garner’s tranquil farmhouse-style home

The building and construction sector accounts for almost 40% of global emissions. As architects look to lower its carbon footprint, they are increasingly looking to build with mass timber – thick, compressed, multilayered panels of solid wood. Vancouver-based studio Michael Green Architects (MGA) recently released its design for a 55-story tower (shown here in a rendering) in the US city of Milwaukee. Made principally from mass timber and reaching approximately 600 feet (182 meters), the wooden skyscraper would hold the title as the world’s tallest timber tower.

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This city is developing the world’s tallest timber tower, again

Is it possible to build cities that are resilient to earthquakes and flooding? Architecture firm Foster + Partners hope to do just that with their masterplan for the city of Antakya, in southeastern Turkey (pictured here in a rendering).

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An earthquake ravaged this city ‘beyond imagination.’ Now it’s being rebuilt to withstand any natural disaster

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Operating theaters, bowling alleys and home cinemas: Not happy with safe rooms, the super-rich are building luxury fortresses

This render shows SOM and Energy Vault’s proposed superstructure tower, a skyscraper which integrates gravity-energy storage.

The next world’s tallest building could be a 3,000-feet-high battery

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TOPSHOT - In this photograph taken on February 12, 2023, a woman walks by the destroyed Habib-i Neccar mosque in the historic southern city of Antakya in Hatay, Turkey, a week after an earthquake devastated parts of Turkey and Syria leaving more than 35,000 dead and millions in dire need of aid. - Antakya, formerly known as "Antioch", was founded in 300 BC by a former general of Alexander the Great and draws its heritage from the many civilizations that have established a presence there: Greek, Roman, Arab, Persian, Ottoman, as well as a short French mandate between the end of World War I and 1939, when the city was returned to Turkey. (Photo by Yasin AKGUL / AFP) (Photo by YASIN AKGUL/AFP via Getty Images)

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New digital renders of Ciel Dubai Marina, designed by architecture firm NORR.

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This handout image from the Italian Ministry of Culture shows a recently unearthed complex architectural structure outside the Archbasilica of St John Lateran in Rome, Italy on July 16, 2024.

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Remains of ancient Papal palace believed to have been found in Rome

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The Indian villages with rooftop sculptures of planes, tanks and cars

Urban design firm URB has released designs for its proposed “<a href="https://www.designboom.com/architecture/urb-worlds-greenest-highway-dubai-solar-powered-trams-green-spine-07-09-2024/" target="_blank">Green Spine</a>,” a 64-kilometer highway along Sheikh Mohammad Bin Zayed Road in Dubai. The project, in alignment with the city’s 2040 Urban Master Plan, will rely entirely on renewable energy, predominantly solar power.

Futuristic designs unveiled for ‘world’s greenest highway’

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Air purifiers on the street in the Olympic Village in Saint Denis, France, on Monday, April 15, 2024. The Olympic Village, north of Paris, will be an eco-quarter where all buildings under eight floors will be made from wood and glass, and all energy will be sustainably sourced via heat pumps and renewables. Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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No AC but the ‘greenest’ ever Games? Inside Paris’ landmark Olympic Village

A file photo shows Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki at his office in Tokyo in July 1999. Maki who won the Pritzker Prize died on June 6, 2024 at the age of 95. Maki was known for his works such as the Hill Side Terrace in Tokyo and the 4 World Trade Center in New York. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images )

Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, credited with fusing East with West, has died at 95

Paramilitary guards stand outside the Xinhua Gate of the Zhongnanhai leadership compound.

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The scenic garden that became China’s secretive seat of power

Los Angeles, CA, Thursday, February 1, 2024 - Taggers have graffitied what appears to be more than 25 stories of a downtown Los Angeles skyscraper that's been sitting dormant for several years. Construction on Oceanwide Plaza, a $1 billion mixed-use retail and luxury apartments project with three towering unfinished structures, stalled in January 2019 after the Beijing-based developer lacked the funds to complete it. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

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A graffiti ‘takeover’ roils downtown Los Angeles