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The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has announced that a joint venture between UK architect Foster + Partners and US firm A. Epste...

Ascent, the world’s tallest mass-timber structure, has opened in Milwaukee. The 86.6m, 25-storey building contains 259 apartments with a gro...

Construction has begun on the 85m tall Skanderbeg Building in Albania, a mixed-use property designed by Dutch architects Mvrdv to appear as...

Spanish contractor Acciona has been awarded a two-year operation and management contract for a seawater desalination plant on behalf of Chil...

Faithful+Gould, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, has been awarded a contract to project manage the Masdar City Square (MC2) project in Abu...

Masdar, the Abu Dhabi renewables and urban development company, has undertaken to develop 2GW of renewable power capacity in Tanzania as the...

Korean electronics and industrial conglomerate LG Corporation has been engaged to draw up a plan for smart urban transport in Indonesia’s ne...

Mitbana, the duo of Japan’s Mitsubishi Corporation and Singapore’s Surbana Jurong, joined forces with Indonesian developer Sinar Puspapersad...

Zambia has cancelled a $1.6bn loan from the China Export Import Bank and the Industrial Commercial Bank of China to reduce its debt burden,...

French infrastructure specialist Colas has won a contract to design, supply and install 100km of rail to line 3 of the Panama metro. The mon...

Dutch architect UNStudio has completed the façade and interior for the FlySolo Rehabilitation Medical Centre in Beijing, a paediatric hospit...

Bechtel has won an early spot on a proposed scheme to build a 400MW pumped storage hydroelectric facility, named “Big-T”, at Lake Cressbrook...

Norwegian architect Snøhetta has unveiled its design for the Shibuya Upper West Project, a 117,000 sq m mixed-use tower in Tokyo’s Shibuya d...

Malaysian conglomerate IJM Corporation is to make its first venture into the industrial market by developing a 260ha business park and logis...

Indian contracting giant Larsen & Toubro claims a world record for distance tunnelled in a month after its ‘Mavala’ tunnel boring machine (T...

Beijing-based MAD Architects has published renderings for a transport hub serving a new district in northwest Milan, Global Design News repo...

Construction has begun on 126 East 57th street, a residential tower designed by New York architect ODA on Billionaire’s Row in Manhattan. Th...

Construction has begun on a 47-storey mixed-use tower at 30 Van Ness in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighbourhood by Australian developer L...

Iran is planning to tender two refinery construction contracts worth $18bn to domestic consortiums as it seeks to increase its crude oil ref...

The US Senate has approved a $16bn construction project to install a system of sea defences over more than 110km of east Texas coastline. If...

An end to the disruption of “countless dinners” and “interminable commutes” was in sight this week with the official groundbreaking on 1 Aug...

A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Brazil’s BRTech 3D has created a LiDAR-scanned virtual model of Rocinha, the l...

Construction has begun on the 34-storey One River Fort Lauderdale project, which will contain 251 high-end apartments and 2,600 sq ft of gro...

Santa Monica City Council has approved the development of a Frank Gehry-designed, mixed-use project at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard...

Italy’s Webuild Group, through its US subsidiary Lane, has won a $233m contract to widen an 11km section of Florida’s Turnpike Mainline (als...