Dubai wants to beat all records for high-rise construction. At the beginning of the year, the tallest building of the world, wonderful Burj Khalifa with 823 m height, opened its doors for public. At the end of the next year Dubai is going to set the new world record, now for the highest all-residential skyscraper. As reported by Tameer developing company, the 414-metre tall Princess Tower in Dubai's high-profile Dubai Marina will be ready for delivery by fourth quarter of 2011. The 107-storey building with 723 apartment units will hold residential height leadership only for two years, because in 2013 in the same area of Dubai will complete 516 m tall and 120 storey luxury Pentominium Tower construction, the design of which already won several professional awards. By definition of Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, current World Number One all-residential building is the Australian Q 1(Queensland Number One; Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast), standing 323-metre high with 78 floors.

Chinese increasingly amaze by their achievements. As Barack Obama draws obvious parallels between the economic growth of China and its currency policy at the G-20 summit, China demonstrated record of how a construction crew built the 15-story Ark Hotel in the Changsha Province. This record shows that China really has made a fantastic economic progress and monetary policy of the country probably plays not so important role. The construction of 15-story building in less than a week! The sustainable 9 earthquake-resistant hotel already had its foundation so construction workers only took 46 hours to finish the building using pre-fabricated columns and modules as well as modern construction techniques. Once the main structural components were completed, only another 90 hours were required to finish the building enclosure. You don't have to be an expert to understand, all the difficulty of planning and organizing the construction process, including perfect organized material supply and labor organization. Note, that there wasn't a single injury among the site's workers while constructing the building. The above video of this hotel construction should first of all draw attention of construction company managers, so as once again think over about their organizational and technical skills...

After 6 years of design and building works, on September 30th 2010 the "Canton Tower" in Guangzhou has opened its doors to the public and it will be ready to accept first inhabitants in spring 2011. A 600- meter Guangzhou Tower is now the tallest TV tower in the world which beat Toronto's CN Tower (553-meter). The record for the tallest tower in the world will last only one year, till spring 2012, when Tokyo Sky Tree with a height of 634m is ready. The Guangzhou Tower is one of the most imposing towers in the world. This 130 storey building is designed for offices and the top floors will occupy Four Seasons luxury hotel group, allowing the visitors enjoy the city's view. As architects Mark Hemel and Barbara Kuit mentioned, they wanted to design a free- form, non symmetrical tower, as if it's "in a movement". As a result the architects created "Sexy Female" that acquired "Super Model" nickname. According to the specialists, this earthquake resistant tower is going to be used for more than 100 years and up to 6000 people are expected to visit it daily. The bearing structure of the tower is its steel latticed outer shell, supported by the system of "rings" from the inside. The upper viewing platform is located at an altitude of 450 m.The ticket price varies between $7, $ 14 and $22, depending on the different heights. Guangzhou Tower will be equipped with four high speed elevators with the speed of 10 meters per second. The top level fire safety system is being installed in the tower; it will have two large water tanks located on the 84th floor with the capacity of 1,200 tons.

On November 21 the tallest statue of Jesus Christ in the world will be opened. The statue is 36 m high, which is 3 meters higher than the statues of Jesus Christ in Bolivia and Brazil. But the record was set due to a 3-meter crown, as all three statues of Jesus measures 33 meters- one meter for each year of Christ's life. The statue will be standing on a 17- meter hill in the western part of Polish city Swiebodzin, which is located near the Polish-German border. Father Sylvester Zawadzki, who offered the design of the statue, said, that he proposed the idea to build a statue of Christ taller than any other in the world five years ago. Initially, the father Zawadzki wanted "a small garden sculpture", but his ambitions have grown over time to "record size". Some construction experts give for statue a short life because weak foundation.

Recent study of Forbes identified the most expensive home markets to live in the U.S. by ZIP Codes. As we see from the list below, the first three places belong to California. But Beverly Hills did not enter into the top three positions of the list and took only the sixth. The new hot spot for multimillion-dollar mansions is Duarte, Calif., home to the 91008 ZIP code, a small suburb northeast of downtown LA, near the Los Angeles national forest. The median cost of a house in this town is a $4,276,462, making it the most expensive housing market in the country. It ranks No. 1 on Forbes' annual ranking of America's Most Expensive ZIP Codes. There are 1391 houses in Duarte but only 12 homes are currently on the market. As can be seen from the list, US most expensive homes are mainly in California and New York. As noted by Forbes, if in the real estate market prices for ordinary houses fell 7%, for expensive ones it has dropped down only by 5%. 1. 91008, Duarte, Calif. 2. 94027, Atherton, Calif. 3. 90274, Rolling Hills, Calif. 4. 07620, Alpine, N.J. 5. 10014, New York, N.Y. 6. 90210, Beverly Hills, Calif. 7. 10065, New York, N.Y. 8. 94920, Belvedere, Calif. 9. 10012, New York, N.Y. 10. 93108, Santa Barbara, Calif. See list of top 100 expensive U.S. ZIP codes