A flowery looking residential development is sprouting from the skyline in Bucharest, Romania.

Designed by MYS Architects, Anador consists of three 27-storey towers currently under construction in the city.

The towers are all the same and look quite curvy from the street, but from above each wing looks like the petals of a flower.

There are plenty of balconies for residents to grow their own greens on - except those lucky enough to score a balcony with a private pool.

Yep this development looks like one for the moneyed and is expected to be finished in 2011.

Amid all the global doom and gloom it looks like Kuwait could be about to make up for all the iced projects around the world with one massive development.

The Kuwaiti government is reportedly about to start on its City of Silk, a brand new 250,000 sq m metropolis on the Tigris and Euphrates river delta.

Anchoring the new city will be the Burj Mubarak al Kabir, a 1001m skyscraper to rival the Burj Dubai.

Designed by London-based architect Eric Kuhne, the skyscraper is three interlocking towers, each twisting 45 degrees top to bottom.

This unusual design is to ensure the whole structure doesn't topple over in high winds.

Popular Science claims the development is about to go ahead. But I guess we shall have to wait and see.

Indonesia will celebrate its national art of batik with a pair of skyscrapers clad in material resembling the textile.

The 210m high Sahid Perdana Twin Towers in Jakarta will reference the traditional form of art on its upper floors while still maintaining a truly modernistic feel.

Designed by Urbane, the elliptical towers will rise from a podium with a pod-shaped entrance. The glass facade will change as the towers rise, merging into a batik-like appearance at the top.

The towers will be linked by a space-age looking skybridge that looks kind of like a UFO has become wedged between the two towers!

The whole complex is expected to open in 2010.

Today's casualty of the economic crisis comes to us courtesy of New York City.

Boston Properties, the biggest owner and developer of office space in the States, has pulled the plug on a 39-storey skyscraper it had started work on in Hell's Kitchen.

Builders working on the foundation of the sheer glass tower at 250 West 55th Street will be told to stop work after a key tenant pulled out of the project.

It seems the law firm that Boston Properties had lined up to lease almost half of the building pulled out weeks before the deal was expected to be signed off and - this has got to hurt - after a full year of negotiations!

Work will be suspended and it is not known when it will restart.

Interestingly, this project hit a speed bump earlier in its life when one property owner wouldn't give Boston Properties access to his building so the tower could go up.

Read about the cat fight here!

As the economic crisis reduced financial markets to rubble in 2008, tall buildings hit a high - literally.

New figures show the average height of the top 10 tallest buildings completed in 2008 rose to 319m - 31m above the previous highest average set in 1998.

The 492m Shanghai World Financial Centre - also known as the bottle opener - was the tallest building, followed by the 363m Almas Tower in Dubai. See the full list here.

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has named 2008 the most successful year of skyscraper construction and is predicting even better results in 2009 and 2010.

The international research group points to the 818m Burj Dubai, the 577m Makkah Clock Royal Tower in Saudi Arabia and the 414m Dubai Towers in Doha - all to be completed in 2009.

The council also predicts the Burj Dubai will hold the title of the world's tallest building until 2020 and that building heights will fall until 2017.

I wonder what Saudi Arabia's Al-Waleed bin Talal - the man who wants to beat the Burj with a 1km high skyscraper - thinks of that?

The tallest skyscraper in Vancouver, Canada opened on the weekend - but with two whole floors missing.

The 201m building Living Shangri-La is a combination hotel and luxury apartment block featuring a public sculpture garden that started construction in 2005.

It is the first location in North America for the luxury hotel chain and incorporates its Asian superstitions - in that there is no fourth floor as that is considered unlucky in Asia.

In fact, the Asian pronunciation of the number four is actually the same as for the word "death."

And what about those more western superstitions? Well, they've also done away with the 13th floor to prevent bad luck.

With hotel rooms going for £3,400 they might need all the luck they can get in the current financial climate.

Construction of South America's tallest skyscraper has been put on hold due to the global financial crisis.

The 300m Torre Gran Constanera in Chile's capital of Santiago was intended to soar 72-storeys but has been abandoned at the 22nd floor.

More than 700 workers have been made redundant and unions say a total of 2,000 jobs will be lost.

The building was to be the tallest in South America and the biggest in the southern hemisphere.

Chilean group Cencosud said that if the project had been finished on time they would have struggled to rent space in the building.

Workers have gathered in front of the unfinished building to express their anger at the decision.

Keen to cement itself as the 'lifestyle' centre of Asia, Singapore has added a new skyscraper to its' skyline (video here).

The Sail @ Marina Bay is a 245m high, 70-storey mixed-use tower with 1,111 luxury apartments that broke real estate records when they hit the market a few years back.

Late Ryanair jazillionaire Tony Ryan's sons Cathal and Declan were rumoured to have forked out around £5m to purchase all 11 apartments on the tower's 16th floor.

Construction is due to finish shortly, so whoever the lucky tenants are they had better start packing.

The tower is being built by Bouygues subsidiary Dragages for City Developments and AIG Global Real Estate and has been a challenge due to its' location on unstable soil and above a subway line.

Designed by NBBJ Architects, the smooth skyscraper was inspired by sun, wind and water.

Work on what would have been the world's tallest building, standing more than 1km high, has been put on ice for at least a year.

In a move that suggests the property bubble has finally popped in Dubai, government-owned developer Nakheel said it was halting "further work" on the building's foundations.

It is not known just how much work has already been completed.

"This is part of our readjustment of our immediate business plans to better reflect the current market trends and match supply with demand," Nakheel said in a statement.

It is a bitter blow for the firm, which has also downed tools on the Trump Tower and International Hotel in December and delayed work on projects including Frond N villas, Gateway Towers and schemes at the Waterfront and the Palm Jebel Ali.

The New York Times says the world's hottest property market - Dubai - has gone cold and that this could be the beginning of a big property slide in the emirate.

In reality though, the curse of the skyscraper index strikes again!

Bullet train firm Kintetsu Group has unveiled plans to build Japan's tallest tower in bustling Osaka.

The bullet train operator has engaged Cesar Pelli to design a stepped 300m concrete and glass tower with 210,000 sq m of internal space.

It will have all the usual features, including a hotel, a massive department store to whet the appetites of Japan's shopaholics and terraced sky gardens for workers.

Named the Abenobashi Terminal Building Tower, it is planned for Abeno-ku in Osaka.

If approved, it is expected to be completed in 2014.

An entire military airbase will be reshuffled in South Korea and its' runway moved to allow developers to build a 555m skyscraper.

Developer Lotte Group is celebrating after winning a 15-year battle to convince the government to approve the tower, which is proposed just 9.2km from the Seongnam Airbase in southern Seoul.

The skyscraper was almost abandoned when officials realised its height and location posed a serious flight risk.

But not to let the threat of death get in the way, Lotte Group has managed to sort out a deal that will see the eastern runway moved three degrees to the west and flight safety equipment upgraded.

The skyscraper will be built as part of the developer's Lotte World II mixed-use project in Jamsil.

The government believes the runway relocation will cost about £51.3m - and Lotte will have to foot the bill.

"We will cooperate with the Air Force to come up with flight safety measures at our expense," the Lotte Group said.

Finances still have to be sorted out but it is good news for other developers in the area, as Lotte's 15-year battle is likely to see height restrictions in the area lifted.

New York's iconic Empire State Building could have a tall friend to gaze across at, with plans afoot to build a skyscraper near the giant.

Vornado Realty Trust has filed an application to rezone the site of the historic Hotel Pennsylvania on 7th Ave and 33rd St to make way for a tower up to 380m high.

Vornado filed "scoping documents" but has not offically requested the seven month rezoning process begin yet.

The firm is rumoured to be contemplating demolition of the hotel to build the 180,000 sq m tower, which wouldn't be far from the Empire State.

The proposal is likely to gather a lot of reaction as the area around the Empire State Building is protected so that other skyscrapers don't devalue the building's impact on the city skyline.

Construction of the rather simple, concave tower could start in 2010 and be completed by 2014.

Not interested in making friends in the playground, Japan has decided to build a free-standing tower to rival France's Eiffel Tower and Canada's CN Tower.

The Asian nation has started construction of a 611m telecommunications tower that will stand 57m higher than the CN Tower and will have a design that some hope could become as iconic as the Eiffel Tower.

Named the Tokyo Sky Tree, the tower is being built in Sumida, Tokyo and was designed by Tadao Ando.

The base of the tower is shaped as a triangle and moves to circular as it progresses upwards. There will be observation decks at 350m and 450m.

Its supporters hope this varied appearance will give the tower iconic status.

Its location was under dispute for many years, as local politicians argued where the most earthquake-safe place to build it would be. Let's hope they got it right.

He had wanted his own skyscraper, but it seems U2 singer Bono still hasn't found what he is looking for, after plans to build the U2 Tower in Dublin were scrapped last week.

The Dublin Docklands Development Authority has decided to suspend negotiations to build the tower on the River Liffey for 12 months in the hope the market recovers.

The 120m skyscraper was to become Dublin's tallest building and include a recording studio for the supergroup in a pod on top.

The proposed roof was to house wind-generated electrical turbines and solar panels, while the sides of the building were to be metal-paneled to look like fish scales.

But many have doubted the ambitious plans would ever be realised, as conservationists have managed to shoot down other skyscraper projects proposed for low-rise Dublin.

Bono and his bandmates were all involved in the project through their involvement with developer Geranger, which had won preferred bidder status to design, construct and finance the tower.

Looks like Bono might have to Walk On.