Las Vegas Casino giant Las Vegas Sands Corporation has chosen Madrid for a multi-billion dollar gambling resort project which has been dubbed "Eurovegas" and will be Europe's biggest casino and conference center. On July 25 the corporation has officially registered plans to build a sprawling resort known as "Eurovegas" outside the Spanish capital Madrid. The resort to be built on a 750-hectare site in the commuter town of Alcorcon some 15 kilometers south of Madrid. Initial investment in the resort, the first phase of which is due to be completed by 2017, will be US$ 7.9 billion and could create as many as 250 thousand jobs, a welcome boost for a country where more than one in four are out of work. The first stage of the project will includes four separate "resorts" with casino facilities attached and 12 hotels with 36 thousand hotel rooms. The final result will be a 72-storey hotel building including six casinos, a convention center, three golf courses, shopping malls, bars and restaurants. Apart this, plans also include a congress center and the largest leisure tourism center in Europe, including a stadium with capacity to hold 20 thousand spectators, 7 theatres with a total of 6 thousand seats.

The company hoping to build the world's tallest skyscraper in record time held a groundbreaking ceremony on July 20, in Changsha, China. Broad Sustainable Building is planning to build the 838-meter Sky City using its prefabricated modular construction method. The founder of parent company Broad Group Chairman Zhang Yue announced the tower will be completed by April 2014 and will cost around US$ 846 million to complete. Its total built-up area will contain just over 1 square kilometer of space. The tower, which will be taller than Dubai's Burj Khalifa by 10 meters, will contain a hotel for 1,000 guests and housing for up to 31,400 people, ranging from penthouses to high-density units for low-income tenants. It will also contain a hospital, schools, shops, restaurants and offices, creating an entire city within the building. According to Broad Group, 90 percent of the building will be pre-fabricated in the company's factories. The units will be produced by 20,000 workers in four months. Then it will take three months for 30,000 workers to finish fabricating the units and other actual constructions on site. In its promotion of the project, Broad Sustainable Building frequently cites its environmental credentials, stating that a typical Sky City resident's CO2 production will fall to two tons annually, compared with an average of 5.5 tons per person in China generally. At first about this project announced The Morning Whistle newspaper in 2012. At that time nobody believed. China's new propose is unbelievable, as world's current tallest building Burj Khalifa required six years to build . Two months after shocking news, the head and founder of Broad Sustainable Building Company Zhang Yue, much increases the likelihood of the realization of this incredible project. During the interview, a Chinese man said that the 220-story skyscraper, which he called "Sky City" certainly to be built. In addition, he presented to the public another ambitious project, which height is 2 kilometers. On May 2013 Lloyd Alter at Treehugger reported, that Broad Sustainable Building, the company behind the tower, will begin construction on the prefab behemoth this June. Finally construction begins! Probability that the Broad Sustainable Building Company can afford this unbelievable task is very high. Recently the prefab Hotel in China's south-central Hunan province standing 30 stories was erected in an incredible 360 hours or in 15 days. The hotel built Chinese sustainable-building firm Broad Group and the building is designed to withstand up a 9.0 magnitude earthquake - and even boasts energy-efficient building techniques. In 2010 Broad Group during 6 days built another prefab building, the 15-story Ark Hotel in the Changsha Province, demonstrating fantastic speed of prefab building construction. When completed, the tower would join a growing list of top architectural feats in China. The country is now home to the world's longest high-speed rail line , highest and longest tunnel-to-tunnel bridge, largest building (by area), and soon the world's longest undersea tunne soon the world's longest undersea tunnel.

The Palais Lumiere, a 245 meter-high skyscraper planned for the ex-industrial area of Marghera, 9.5 kilometers from the center of Venice, will not now be built. Public and government opposition has forced fashion tycoon Pierre Cardin to cancel plans for his pet skyscraper project. Pierre Cardin and architect Rodrigo Basilicati have axed plans for their 60-story Palais Lumiere, due to criticism about how the building would clash with the Venetian landscape. In March 2012, Venice government has approved a 60-storey tower designed and funded by fashion designer Pierre Cardin. But as told project architect Rodrigo Basilicati "The decision was inevitable after over two years since presenting the initiative we could not get a formal approval on a deal with all public bodies involved. Cardin's Palace of Light was to be built on Venice's mainland in the former industrial area of Porto Marghera and was to boast swimming pools, gardens and ponds on the upper decks and a helipad on the roof. Originally set for a 2015 completion, the glass palace was to include housing, hotels, cinemas, restaurants, research centers as well as educational and sports facilities. The skyscraper's three towers were to be connected by six horizontal disks. Opposition and criticism over the glass-walled skyscraper began in 2012. Locals have been concerned over the impact of the 245-meter structure would have on the Venetian landscape and the medieval city. The opposition largely consists of are "Venetians and Italians who are tired of seeing Venice abused by the vast cruise ships and mounting examples of the crudest commercialism.

China will invest US$ 42 billion, to revive a long-stalled plan to build the world's longest undersea tunnel across the Bohai Strait linking the country's eastern and northeastern regions. Deep beneath the Bohai Sea, Chinese engineers may soon begin boring the longest submarine tunnel on the planet. At an estimated 123 kilometers long, it would surpass the combined length of world's two longest underwater tunnels-Japan's Seikan Tunnel and the Channel Tunnel between the UK and France. The tunnel will run from the port city of Dalian in northeastern Liaoning province to Yantai city in eastern Shandong. Today the drive between Dalian and Yantai takes around seven to eight hours. The Bohai Tunnel would shorten that to an hour. China announced plans in 1994 to build the tunnel, at a cost of US$ 10 billion, and set to be completed before 2010. But more than 20 years on, the project remains stuck in the planning stage without elaborating. Currently world's longest undersea tunnel is in Japan. The 54 kilometer Seikan tunnel links Honshu and Hokkaido islands and started operating in 1988 after more than two decades of construction. The Channel tunnel between England and France is about 51 kilometer long.

At the beginning of this year Google announced, that it has completed a US$ 1.6 billion deal to build a new UK headquarters on 10 thousand square meters of disused land behind King's Cross Station, underlining the global technology industry's commitment to London. Now Google just unveiled images of its newest campus, a 270 thousand square meters, 11-story behemoth that will be designed by award-winning architectural firm AHMM. Prior to this building's announcement, Google's London operations were split between two offices--one in Covent Garden and one in Victoria. The new headquarters, which will be located near London's prestigious King's Cross Station, will consolidate operations into a single building while attempting to blend into the neighborhood. The new office will be made from industrial materials like steel, glass, and cross-laminated timber panels, and it's designed to achieve BREEAM Outstanding certification. In decades past, the construction of a new office building in London would hardly be a newsworthy event, but the ingenuity of companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple have changed that. Everyone wants to know-what kind of building do you create when money is no object and you employ some of the most creative and technologically savvy minds in the world? If the early looks at Google's King's Cross HQ are any indication, it won't disappoint. "This building is underpinned by cutting edge design intelligence and technologies to provide a sophisticated twenty-first century working environment for Google's staff," AHMM director Simon Allford told Dezeen. The building, which many are calling a 'groundscraper' will be multi-leveled, growing from seven stories high at one end to 11 at the northern end overlooking Regent's Canal. It's been suggested by some that buildings comprised of more wood than steel are actually better for the environment, leading to far less carbon emissions during the production process. Google appears to be testing the waters of this theory. "Much of the internal structure will be constructed using steel framing with cross-laminated timber panels - a first for a contemporary building of this scale. The building has been designed to meet the highest standards of environmental sustainability, ensuring low energy usage and incorporating state-of-the-art materials," Google stated. It's said that bold primary colors will adorn the steelwork, taking inspiration from architectural elements nearby. There are also rumors that the roof will feature a garden. Ultimately, Google and its design team hope to achieve BREEAM Outstanding and LEED Platinum ratings and deliver an overall carbon reduction of 40 percent. The new building will boast around 93 thousand gross square meters new, with approximately 67 thousand square meters dedicated to office space and around 4600 square meters slated for retail space at ground level. The new site is likely to include a 1860 square meter area for bike parking (about the size of seven tennis courts), and features a climbing wall between floors, a source close to the project told Reuters. If all goes as planned, workers will break ground on the new UK headquarters early in 2014, with completion scheduled for late 2016 or early 2017. The building is expected to create 1,500 construction jobs, and while there are only about 2,000 Google employees in the UK, the new office will have room for about 4,500, which means the tech giant is likely to be hiring in the next few years.