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German chancellor Olaf Scholz and Berlin mayor Kai Wegner attended the groundbreaking on Tuesday of “Siemensstadt Square”, a 188-acre busine...

China aims to start work on a $5.2bn particle accelerator in 2027, reports Global Times. The facility, the world’s largest, will be a circul...

The Pompidou Centre in central Paris is due to close for five years from the summer of 2025 while renovation works take place. These will in...

A team led by UK architect Cross Works has been chosen by the government of Uzbekistan to masterplan the first phase of New Tashkent, the co...

European energy company Vattenfall has signed a letter of intent with Cemvision for the development and future supply of Cemvision’s near-ze...

Ecuador has begun work on a $52m prison for people convicted of belonging to drug cartels. The move follows a decision by Ecuador’s new pres...

Chinese energy engineering firm Wison New Energies will discontinue all ongoing Russian projects and will “stop taking any new Russian busin...

Belgian grid operator Elia has awarded the contract to design and build four substations on the world’s first “energy island” in the North S...

The UAE emirate of Sharjah has agreed a memorandum of understanding to build an airport in Uganda near the Kidepo Valley National Park. The...

Danish architect 3XN has won a design competition for the 700-sq-m Centre for Coastal Nature and Sport Fishing on Denmark’s Funen island. Th...

A Japanese home-builder has decided to knock down a nearly complete 10-storey condominium block in west Tokyo prefecture after locals compla...

Heavy-lift specialist Mammoet has started putting together the world’s biggest and strongest land-based crane at its Westdorpe facility in t...

Cimic subsidiary UGL has won a five-year, A$125m contract to upgrade Western Power’s electricity distribution and transmission network in th...

Skanska Integrated Solutions will oversee design and construction on a $500m, decade-plus-long decarbonisation plan for Dartmouth College in...

The World Bank has allocated $1bn in extra funding to build Pakistan’s largest hydropower plant. The Dasu Hydropower Plant will be on the In...

Spanish contractor Acciona has won a €62m contract to build the first runway at the new Cabo Rojo International Airport in Pedernales, Domin...

Finnish firm Sigge Architects has won a design competition for the “Museum of History and the Future” in Finland’s oldest city, Turku, to ce...

Construction has begun on a $174m upgrade of Honolulu’s Sand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant, increasing the capacity and efficiency of th...

Official data shows that new-home prices in China fell at the fastest rate in nine years last month, Reuters reports. They dropped 0.7% in M...

The head of the government authority responsible for building Indonesia’s new capital city on the island of Borneo has resigned along with h...

Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, who began training in the aftermath of the Second World War and who won the Pritzker Prize in 1993, has di...

US architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has teamed up with Swiss energy storage company Energy Vault to create four building prototype...

UK studio David Kohn Architects, Belgium’s noAarchitecten and Turkey’s Asli Çiçek have won an international design competition for a €90m re...

Cimic Group company Pacific Partnerships has acquired the development rights for what will be one of Australia’s biggest solar farms, the 70...

The 33-storey Z6 tower in Beijing, designed by UK architect Foster + Partners, aims to become China’s first high-rise office building to ach...