Burj Dubai

"This is the latest available in images from the Burj Dubai, already the tallest building in the world with just a year to go to completion. Nothing demonstrates the amazing ambition of this city better than this iconic building which is the centre piece of the new Downtown...

Olympic Buildings on the Move

BLDG BLOG reports that the stadium being built for the London Olympics may be disassembled and relocated to Chicago once the games are over. I like the idea of "plug and play" architecture -- where buildings might be reused rather than simply being destroyed - but then I...

Nouvel's 53rd St. tower design unveiled

Dezeen has several renderings of this very tall and spiky tower designed by the french architect for midtown manhattan.  "Hines, the international real estate firm, announced today the formal selection of Paris-based architect Jean Nouvel as the designer of a new...

Kenya Real Estate Boom or Burst?

"Did you know that since 2002 Kenya has been experiencing rapid growth in its real estate sector? Well, from what I have been able to gather it started with the change that occurred in the country’s governance at that time. From 2002 Kenya’s tourism sector went on a...

Phyllis Lambert's landmark birthday

They came from points as far as Italy, as inevitable as New York City and as near as Westmount - about 250 architects, academics, relatives, financiers, artists and politicos - to a former industrial space in darkest Griffintown called the Darling Foundry. The occasion was...

Trade Center towers featured in exhibit (AP)

" NEW YORK - Several blocks south of the site where the World Trade Center once stood, a new exhibit gives visitors a brief impression of what it was like to stand close to the fluted walls of the twin towers and gaze upward. Carol Willis, director of The Skyscraper Museum,...

bought six weeks before

Insurance Award  --  4 billion dollars.