1. Dubai Unveils Hotel With Underwater Rooms
Polish firm Deep Ocean Technology has unveiled the latest of Dubai's outlandish architectural endeavors - the Water Discus Hotel - which is to be comprised of a series of sci-fi styled discs, one of which will be positioned 10 meters underwater with twenty-one...(2012-05-17)

2. ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower Now Complete in London
The crazy, twisting ArcelorMittal Orbit observation tower in London is now complete and final preparations are underway for visitors. Set to open right before the games begin in July, the spiraling red steel tower will provide views of the Olympic Park. The to...(2012-05-16)

3. Engineers launch artificial earthquakes at 'hospital'
Engineers in California have unleashed high-intensity artificial earthquakes on a five-storey building packed with medical equipment.
The mock hospital has been built on a giant "shake table" which can subject the building to movements similar to real e...(2012-05-09)

4. Code lets foreigners buy more local land in Turkey
As reported hurriyetdailynews, Turkey's Parliament has approved a law that eases restrictions on the sale of land and real estate to foreign citizens and firms despite harsh objections from opposition parties.
The bill, approved late May 3, most nota...(2012-05-06)

5. The Last Nuclear Plant Shut Down in Japan Today
As reported by inhabitat.com, today Japan will become completely nuclear free for the first time since 1970 as it shuts down the Tomari nuclear reactor on the island of Hokkaido. One by one the country's 54 nuclear reactors have been shuttered for maintenance,...(2012-05-05)

6. Gyumri Technopark to be Built In 1.5 Year
As reported news.am, the Technopark building with total floor area 6500 square meters is planned to be build in Gyumri city's technological zone, Armenian Economy Minister's advisor Vahe Danielyan told to reporters on April 26.

With the bid price...(2012-04-29)

7. New Steel Pyramid Passive Art Museum to Build In China
Construction has begun on the Foster + Partners-designed Art Museum in Datong's New City, in China. The distinctive 32 thousand square meters museum will be largely submerged into the ground, with the four large interconnected steel pyramids which form its roo...(2012-04-29)

8. World's Largest Solar Thermal Plant Opens In Saudi Arabia
The world's largest solar thermal system for water heating recently opened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The new one is almost double the size of what was previously the largest solar water heating facility (located in Denmark), and it will generate enough power to...(2012-04-25)

9. Baku Crystal Hall Is The Copy Of Shenzhen Universiade Sports Center
On April 16 in the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku, with the delay of 3 weeks, was completed the Baku Crystal Hall construction, where the next 57th Eurovision 2012 will take place in May. The construction of the concert hall with the capacity of 25 thousand seats...(2012-04-21)

10. Breakthrough Cement Production Technique Is CO2 Free
As global warming begins to more strongly influence policy and economic decisions, attention is turning to the construction industry and its massive, 3 trillion kilogram annually cement addiction. The cement industry is the second largest emitter of greenhouse...(2012-04-19)

11. Japan's Largest Solar Power Plant Set For Construction
After waves of controversy following the destructive tsunami and subsequent failure of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in March of 2011, Japan began ramping down its atomic energy industry and actively pursuing safer, alternative energy sources.
As re...(2012-04-14)

12. Donald Trump To Build "Trump Tower" In Batumi
On April 21 billionaire Donald Trump will visit Georgia, told Silk Road Group representative during his interview to News-Georgia. The purpose of the visit is a presentation of Trump's Batumi new project....(2012-04-13)

13. World's Largest Titanic Museum Opened In Belfast
The Titanic Belfast is the world's largest Titanic museum, and it is located at the site of the famous ship's construction in Northern Ireland, Belfast. The interactive museum took 3 years to build - the same amount of time it took to build the ship - and it o...(2012-04-13)

14. New EQ-Top Seismic Wallpaper Can Save Lives In An Earthquake
Scientists at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Bayer have developed a seismic wallpaper that can hold up building walls during earthquakes, reported The Inhabitat. The system, called EQ-Top, is a glass fiber fabric that can help keep mason walls stabl...(2012-04-07)

15. Naturally Daylight Cultural Center To Build In Changzhou
Changzhou, China will soon have a massive new cultural center complete with an arts museum, a science and technology museum and a library, reported The Inhabitat. The complex will be designed by Hamburg-based GMP Architekten who has made natural daylight a vi...(2012-04-05)

16. Luxury Hotel "groundscraper" Planned In Abandoned Quarry
Would you spend US$ 300 a night to sleep underground? You might, once you see the jaw-dropping designs for China's latest hotel project. For more than a decade, China has been a front-runner in the world's skyscraper race. Now the country is taking the pole po...(2012-04-04)

17. China Opens Record-Breaking Bridge Over Canyon
The world's highest and longest tunnel-to-tunnel bridge has been completed in China, reported The Telegraph. The bridge, named the Aizhai Extra Large Suspension Bridge, will link together two tunnels 1176 meters apart, and 355 meters above Hunan's Dehang Canyo...(2012-04-02)

18. Japanese Architects Designed Sky Villages
Elevated land-based islands are what one architect is proposing for the Tohoku region of north-east Japan, the area that was devastated by last March's magnitude 9 earthquake and the mega-tsunamis it triggered. As reported The NewScientist, Keiichiro Sako of S...(2012-03-30)

19. Plans Revealed For Israel's largest Office Tower
Azrieli Group controlling shareholder David Azrieli laid the foundation stone on March 25 for the US$ 400 million Sarona Center, a single 200-meter, 50-story building in Tel Aviv's nascent southern Kirya business district, reported The Jerusalem Post.
...(2012-03-29)

20. Pierre Cardin To Build Venice Skyscraper
Venice has approved a 60-storey tower designed and funded by fashion designer Pierre Cardin, reported British online publication BDonline. It will be the centerpiece of a vast project to build a whole new suburb on reclaimed land north of the historic city.(2012-03-28)

21. Real Madrid Reveal Plans to Build Holiday Resort In UAE
Spanish soccer super-team Real Madrid have announced plans to construct a US$ 1 billion luxury resort in the United Arab Emirates - and to ensure a truly unique location, the sports company plans to construct an archipelago of artificial islands upon which it ...(2012-03-24)

22. Chicago to Build an Elevated Park Following the New-York Example
Chicago City officials recently unveiled the proposed concepts for the long-delayed Bloomingdale Trail, a proposed park and multiuse path of nearly three miles that would be built atop a dormant elevated railroad line on the city's Northwest Side. It also woul...(2012-03-23)

23. Australia's Sydney Harbour Bridge Turns 80
One of Australia's most recognisable landmarks, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, is celebrating its 80th birthday, reported BBC.
The 1.149 thousand meters bridge, which took almost 10 years to build, was officially opened on 19 March 1932. Construction began ...(2012-03-20)

24. Can Wooden Skyscrapers Transform Concrete Jungles?
Instead of concrete jungles could our cities become urban forests of wooden skyscrapers? Swapping cement and steel for timber is the vision of a number of environmentally-minded architects who are planning high-rise buildings across the world.
As report...(2012-03-20)

25. The Wind Form Pavilion Created In France Medieval Castle
The beautiful Windshape pavilion by nARCHITECTS stretched across the limestone walls of Lacoste, France like a luminous billowing spider's web, reported The Inhabitat.
Perched at the top of Lacoste on the castle of the Marquis de Sade, the Windshape...(2012-03-18)

26. Renovation of London's Historic King's Cross Station Is Completed
A five-year renovation of London's King's Cross Station is now complete and the glorious new hub will formally open to the public on March 19, reported The Inhabitat. Designed by John McAslan + Partners, the renovation was a three part project that included a...(2012-03-16)

27. Danish Architects Turned 19th Century Barn Into a Modern Cultural Center
A beautiful 1870s barn located within the luscious Danish countryside was recently refurbished and turned into a creative cultural hub, reported The Inhabitat. Local architects Praksis were commissioned by the Realdania foundation to renovate the thatched roof...(2012-03-14)

28. Europe's Tallest Towers Set To Rise
The US$ 2.61 billion Hermitage Plaza Towers to be built in Paris La Defense business district have received planning permission and work on the site will start imminently, Emin Iskenderov, chief executive of development company Hermitage Group, said on March 9...(2012-03-13)

29. Armenian Cathedral In Moscow Will Open by the End of 2012
The construction of Armenian cathedral in Moscow is planned to be completed by the end of 2012. As reported Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin press center, the Catholicos of All Armenians His Holiness Garekin II and the head of Russian Diocese Artur Chilingarov d...(2012-03-13)

30. Winners 2012 Skyscraper Competition Were Announced
Every year since 2006 eVolo Magazine is announcing the winners of the annual Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materi...(2012-03-12)

31. First Vertical Farms Become Reality
Architectures have spoken about "Vertical farms" for many years. Today, despite the skepticism, such projects transformed from "green dreams" into reality. Several years ago a Swedish-American company called Plantagon International unveiled plans for a series ...(2012-03-08)

32. Levitating House System Could Protect Homes From Earthquakes
A Japanese company, Air Danshin Systems Inc., has come up with perhaps the most inventive solution we've seen - they fit out existing houses to levitate in the event of an earthquake. In the wake of last year's Fukushima disaster the company is set to install ...(2012-03-05)

33. Saudi Arabia and Egypt Will Build a Bridge Over the Red Sea
Saudi Arabia and Egypt have renewed an agreement on constructing a causeway between Tabuk and Egypt through Aqaba Bay at an initial cost of US$ 3 billion, Arab News reported, quoting an official source at the Saudi Ministry of Transport. Both sides agreed to n...(2012-03-05)

34. Romanian Architectures 18th Century Bastion Transformed Into a Park
In a sign of the times, architecture studio ARCHAEUS transformed an 18th century bastion into a park and community center, reported The Inhabitat. Bastion Theresia Timisoara was built as a defensive perimeter for the Romanian town of Timisoara and has languish...(2012-03-02)

35. Tokyo Unveils World's Tallest Communications Tower
The world's tallest communications tower has been completed in central Tokyo following nearly four years of construction, reported The Telegraph. Tokyo Sky Tree, which measures 634 meters in height, was finished two months behind schedule following delays caus...(2012-03-02)

36. The First Chinese Architect Won the Pritzker Prize
2012 Pritzker prize awarded to Wang Shu - first Chinese architect to win the award, reported the official site of Pritzker Prize. Wang Shu runs Amateur Architecture Studio with his wife Lu Wenyu out of Hangzhou and is also the head of the Architecture Departme...(2012-02-29)

37. "The Old Yerevan" Project will be Launched Soon
In 2005 Armenian Government made a decision to build a little Old Yerevan corner in the center of capital, but the project is still only on paper. According to the plan, in capital's heart, not far from the Republic Square, should be reconstructed a little his...(2012-02-29)

38. Whitney Houston New Jersey Home On Sale
The New Jersey mansion that was the setting for Whitney Houston's well publicized drug problems and her tumultuous marriage to Bobby Brown is being sold with an asking price of US$ 1.75 million, reported The International Business Times. The property at 22 Nor...(2012-02-22)

39. In The Future the Oil Refineries will be Transformed Into Energy Positive Homes
Nowadays, it is very popular to transform non residential sites into residential facilities, especially, if the transformation is very cheap. In particular, lighthouses, windmills, space stations, churches, railway stations, water towers, platforms are convert...(2012-02-22)

40. JW Marriott Marquis Dubai Set to be World's Tallest Hotel
A symbol of Dubai's resurgence and its growing importance at the centre of the global business crossroads will emerge later this year when the JW Marriott Marquis Dubai opens its doors to guests in Q4 this year, reported the official site of Marriott Hotel. Th...(2012-02-19)

41. UK's First Amphibious House Approved For The River Thames
Baca Architects was recently granted approval to build the UK's first amphibious house on the banks of the Thames River in England, reported The Inhabitat. The test home will respond to the issue of rising floodwaters - a pressing world-wide problem caused by ...(2012-02-19)

42. Armenian Church to be Built In Ukraine
As reported Ukrainian Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Armenian community in Ukraine plans to build an Armenian church.

The church design is already done. According to newspaper, the construction will start this spring, most probably in March and will e...(2012-02-19)

43. World's First Rotating Tower To Be Built In London
According to Constructionweeklyonline, as reported Dynamic Architecture Group, London has pipped Dubai as location of the world's first rotating tower, with construction expected to begin this year. The company also reported, that they would announce the start...(2012-02-15)

44. The Skyscraper Era Is Continuing
In January of each year, CTBUH publishes a review of tall building construction and statistics from the previous year. The annual story represented the record for the most 200 meter or higher buildings completed in a given year. According to tall buildings off...(2012-02-14)

45. Construction Dropped In Armenia
As reported by the National Statistical Service of Armenia, the total volume of construction output in 2011 compared with the previous year has dropped by 11.5 percent and amounted 480 billion AMD ($1.25 billion).
The primary reason for the drop is ...(2012-02-13)

46. Data Center Is Buried Underground And Cooled By Norway's Fjords
Buried deep underneath the mountains near Stavanger, Norway, the Green Mountain Data Center is quite possibly the greenest data center in the world. Powered by renewable energy from nearby sources and cooled with water from the adjacent fjord, the cavernous da...(2012-02-10)

47. Korea Is Set to Build the World's First Invisible Tower
In our days skyscrapers construction isn't surprising, especially in Asian countries. Whereas most skyscrapers aim to stand out from crowded skylines, South Korea architects managed to bring something new in skyscraper construction planning Infinity Tower whic...(2012-02-10)

48. World's Tallest Residential Tower Hits Final Height
As announced by Tameer company, the main developer of project, Dubai's landmark Princess Tower has been completed, making it the world's tallest residential tower at a final height of 414 meters, reported The National.
Construction of residential tower...(2012-02-05)

49. Louvre Has Recived A New Building
As reported the newspaper Le Figaro, in 2014 Louvre will receive a new building - the museum will get the building of hotel de la Marine in Paris, which is currently the main headquarter of the Fleet Marine Forces.
According to director of Louvre Henri...(2012-02-02)

50. Caspian Island - Dream or Reality?
As reported by information agency APA, Azerbaijan plans to build the world's tallest tower within the framework of Caspian Island project. Initially, the height of Azerbaijan Tower planned to be 560 meters, but parameters were changed. The developer of Caspian...(2012-01-28)