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• Did these architects find inspiration in a bottle of red?

  Some of the best ideas are born in the bar and now a group of architects seem to have turned to the bottom of a bottle for inspiration. Croatian architects Entasis won a competition to design new towers in Zagreb, with an eye-catching design featuring... Posted Jun 30 2009, 01:25 AM by World Construction Filed under: architecture, Drunk Towers, Croatia, Zagreb, Entasis

• A sad day for skyscraper buffs, but a happy one for valets

  Russia has scrapped plans to build an eye-catching 600m tower designed by Lord Foster and might replace it with a car park. Russia Tower was planned for Moscow and would have been the world's tallest naturally ventilated building but has been axed... Posted Jun 19 2009, 09:08 AM by World Construction Filed under: economic slump, architecture, Lord Foster, Russia Tower

• Architects have the best offices

  One of the best bits of being an architect would have to be designing your own office. Selgascano in Spain has done just this, designing one of the coolest offices you could ever find in the woods anywhere. Yep, the long tunnel-like office is nicknamed... Posted Jun 15 2009, 11:17 AM by World Construction Filed under: architecture, Spain, office

• The batty plan to design skyscraper for animals

  The sweet sound of birdsong could return to the cities and industrial heartlands of the UK under a batty plan to build skyscrapers for animals. The 12m man-made tree towers are designed to provide valuable habitat for birds, bats, butterflies, insects... Posted Jun 10 2009, 08:40 AM by World Construction Filed under: tower, skyscrapers, sustainability, architecture, United Kingdom, Leeds

• Gehry's beautiful Beekman back on track

  It is a happy day as the developer of Frank Gehry's New York City masterpiece Beekman Tower has confirmed the building is back on track. Work on the 76-storey tower was halted two months ago amid spiralling costs. The developer Bruce Ratner had threatened... Posted Jun 01 2009, 11:21 AM by World Construction Filed under: under construction, skyscrapers, New York, architecture, Beekman Tower, Frank Gehry, tall buildings

• Noah's ark skyscraper for when pigs fly

  Just two days ago I was going on about how great it is that architects are still designing insane projects and blah, blah, blah. Then I come across this design for the 600m high Dragonfly Vertical Farm ( more pics ), a skyscraper for animals and agricultural... Posted May 21 2009, 01:41 AM by World Construction Filed under: skyscrapers, New York, architecture, vertical farm

• Hooray! Innovation survives in economic gloom

  Forgive me for getting a little too excited about this innovative design by Oklahoma architect Rand Elliott for an oddly-shaped tower incorporating wind turbines. Turbinomic is designed to make the most of wind turbulence around it, by allowing the wind... Posted May 18 2009, 09:22 AM by World Construction Filed under: US, architecture, Oklahoma, Rand Elliott, Turbinomic

• Smug apartments on track high above Bangkok's smog

  Living atop the smog of Bangkok in a luxury highrise sounds more like the booby prize of a life spent getting rich. But the architects behind the city's newest residential tower, The Met, have designed the building with specific ventilation levels... Posted May 06 2009, 05:35 AM by World Construction Filed under: under construction, tower, architecture, The Met, tall buildings, Bangkok

• Aunty Em, it's the tornado tower!

  This gravity defying building comes surprisingly from the drawing boards of Swedish architecture firm Visiondivision and Markus Wagner. Looking more like something a Wizard of Oz fan or Kansas resident might dream up, it was designed for a recent competition... Posted Apr 14 2009, 12:13 PM by World Construction Filed under: tower, Taiwan, architecture

• Creativity spiraling out of control in UAE

  This spiraling building set up similar to a corkscrew is the latest hotel to be designed for Abu Dhabi. Designed by Leeser Architects, the Helix Hotel in Zayed Bay will not have floors per se, but spirals that flow like water from one use to another Read... Posted Apr 06 2009, 10:19 AM by World Construction Filed under: sustainability, architecture, Abu Dhabi, hotel, Helix Hotel

• Skateboarding house: What happens when skegs get rich

  It is every skateboarder's wet dream - a house with its own indoor skate ramp, located just inches from a kitchen fully stocked with Coke and chips. This rad home was designed by Archvirus Architecture and Design for a rich skeg (skateboarder for... Posted Mar 30 2009, 11:02 AM by World Construction Filed under: architecture, house building, homes, Greece

• Hearts break as Beekman Tower is slashed

  Thank God easter and all of its chocolatey goodness is just around the corner because World Construction is nursing a broken heart. Frank Gehry's icon-to-be skyscraper in New York - Beekman Tower - which we waxed lyrical about here has cruelly had... Posted Mar 26 2009, 09:28 AM by World Construction Filed under: under construction, skyscrapers, on hold, New York, architecture, Beekman Tower, Frank Gehry

• Leafy skyscrapers persist in New York

  This is the latest structure designed to address population growth and an increased strain on resources in the world's biggest cities. Dystopian Farm by Eric Vergne was a finalist in the Evolo Skyscraper Competition and proposes a sustainable vertical... Posted Feb 25 2009, 08:33 AM by World Construction Filed under: skyscrapers, sustainability, New York, Evolo Skyscraper Competiton, architecture, Eric Vergne

• Why curves will never go out of fashion

  A Japanese architect has shunned the old 'four walls and one roof' chestnut of home design and is building these futuristic houses across the world. Like a lot of men before him, Shuhei Endo is all about curves - but not in the way you're... Posted Feb 25 2009, 08:15 AM by World Construction Filed under: architecture, Shuhei Endo, house building, Japan

• Little sisters planned for the Shard

  The developer behind London's skyscraper the Shard of Glass loves building tall buildings so much, he is planning three more! Developer Irvine Sellar has commissioned Beijing Bird's Nest architects Herzog and de Meuron to design towers rising... Posted Feb 24 2009, 09:14 AM by World Construction Filed under: skyscrapers, tallest buildings, architecture, Herzog and de Meuron, London, Shard of Glass