Skyscrapers
Skyscrapers
Africa's tallest skyscraper to be built in Morocco next year
News: construction will begin next year on Africa's tallest building – a 540-metre-high skyscraper in Morocco. More
News: construction will begin next year on Africa's tallest building – a 540-metre-high skyscraper in Morocco. More
News: Italian design school Domus Academy has recruited leading creatives – including Patricia Urquiola, Joseph Grima, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Alice Rawsthorn – to form a panel that will help the school "revolutionise" its teaching (+ interview). More
News: architectural licensing bodies in the United States, Canada and Mexico have forged an agreement to allow architects to work across North American borders. More
News: Danish furniture brand Muuto has chosen a lamp that bends like a fishing rod as the winner of its annual Nordic design award for emerging talents. More
News: OMA is set to transform part of a former shipyard in Shanghai into a 1,500-square-metre exhibition centre, after winning an international design competition. More
News: the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in Manhattan reopens to the public today after a three-year renovation project including new fittings by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro (+ slideshow). More
News: Ma Yansong's Beijing studio MAD has been granted permission to drastically remodel a 1970s block in Rome, to create a residential complex featuring tree-covered terraces and translucent metallic walls. More
Flames lapping the edges of an Indian brick kiln, the concrete beams of Herzog & De Meuron's Beijing Olympic stadium, and a Gothic doorway in Milan's Doumo are among the images shortlisted for this year's Art of Building Photographer of the Year competition (+ slideshow). More
News: Danish studio COBE has won a contest to design a new landmark building at Adidas' global headquarters, with plans for a rhombus-shaped structure filled with winter gardens (+ slideshow). More
News: the Pantheon-like interior of Rem Koolhaas and OMA's arts and culture centre in Miami Beach has been revealed by developer Faena during this year's Art Basel and Design Miami events (+ slideshow). More
News: sports brand Nike is suing three of its former footwear designers for $10 million, alleging that they took trade secrets to arch-rival Adidas. More
News: the American Institute of Architects has named Moshe Safdie as the 2015 recipient of the AIA Gold Medal. More
News: Danish firm 3XN has shown the first images of its design for the new headquarters of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne, Switzerland. More
News: apartments for OMA's twin towers in Stockholm have gone on sale, with construction set to begin in the spring. More
News: landscape architecture studio James Corner Field Operations, who collaborated on New York's High Line, has been selected to create a huge public park bordering the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. More
News: Chicago firm JAHN and Mexican office ADG have teamed up to design a new stadium for Mexican baseball team Los Diablos Rojos del Mexico with a pointed roof modelled on a devil's trident. More
News: New York's MoMA has acquired a "4D-printed" dress that automatically changes shape, and the technology used to create it, a month after the museum added five DIY electronics products to its permanent collection. More
News: after a change of leadership and criticism from leading architects, the Royal Institute of British Architects has overturned its own motion calling for a suspension of Israel from architecture's international membership body. More
News: construction has begun on Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group's skyscraper at 15 Hudson Yards – the first residential tower in New York's new city quarter on stilts. More
News: New York architect Steven Holl has seen off competition from 104 applicants including Zaha Hadid, OMA and Amanda Levete, to design a new wing for the Mumbai City Museum. More