Paris To Get New Triangle Skyscraper

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Paris city councilors have voted in favor of hotly-contested plans for a giant triangular tower that would be the capital's first modern skyscraper in more than 40 years. After construction 42-storey skyscraper "Tour Triangle" will be third tallest s...

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Green And Energy Efficient: World's Best Tall Buildings 2015 Declared

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According to ctbuh.org, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat announced the winners of its annual "Best Tall Building" awards for 2015. This year's winners will be recognized, and the awards conferred, at the CTBUH Annual Awards Ceremony on...

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World's Tallest Wooden Tower Proposed For Paris

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At first glance, the warm, luminous development proposed for a Paris site doesn't look much different than any other mixed-use project rising in other cities. But this village of high-rises is unique in that it would be made completely from wood-even...

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57-Floor Tower Just In 19 Days

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At first 15 floors in 6 days, then 30 floors in 15 days, now 57 floors in 19 days...

Chinese company "Broad Sustainable Building" again hits a record. BSB Architect Xian Min Zhang has released a time-lapse video of the construction of t...

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Vienna Plans World's Tallest Wooden Skyscraper

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When American engineer William Le Baron Jenney designed the world's first skyscraper in Chicago in 1884, no one believed in his unconventional technologies. But today swapping cement and steel for timber is the vision of a number of environmentally-m...

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