Golf leads the way in Mingtiandi’s roundup of Asia real estate headlines today with the news that a Hong Kong joint venture has purchased a company that holds two golf courses and a hotel in Scotland’s St Andrews.
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KPF’s Lotte World Tower in Seoul Wins Super Skyscraper Title
The cloud-breaching Lotte World Tower in Seoul has been recognized as the best new skyscraper in the world, beating out Zaha Hadid Architects’ Generali Tower in Milan and 150 North Riverside Plaza in Chicago.
The tapered 555-metre, 123-storey glass and… Read More>>
Greenland’s Plan to Build China’s Tallest Tower in Wuhan Scaled Down by Over 20%
Greenland Wuhan Center, designed to surpass the Shanghai Tower and become China’s tallest building, will be falling short of its planned 636 metres (2086 feet) height, after the local government prescribed a 21 percent reduction in height for the central… Read More>>
Eating Lunch and Snapping Selfies Atop a 346-Metre Tower in HK
After two Russians scaled the Shanghai Tower to film themselves dangling from the world’s second-tallest building, it seems to have started a new fad of climbing office towers just to show the world how tiny it looks from way,… Read More>>
Shanghai Tower Seeks Help to Lease Out 220k Sqm of Office Space
China’s state-run real estate developers might be getting more market-oriented, or it could be that someone in the Shanghai city government realises that leasing out 220,000 square metres of office space is not a matter to be lef to chance.
In any case, the state-owned developers of the Shanghai Tower, have announced that they are seeking leasing agents to help fill the building.
Ground Broken for 111-Storey Pearl of the North Tower in Shenyang
Construction began on Friday for the US$1.5 billion Pearl of the North skyscraper project in the northern China city of Shenyang.
As the latest entrant into what seems to be an intramural contest among Chinese cities to thrust supertall buildings… Read More>>
Shanghai Tower Tops Out – Is Now China’s Tallest
A topping-out ceremony was held on Saturday for what is, for now, China’s tallest building when the final beam was hoisted to the top of the Shanghai Tower.
At 632 metres and 121 stories, the project will be second only… Read More>>
Construction Halted on World’s Tallest Building Project in Changsha
Within one week from the ground breaking ceremony for Sky City, the 838-metre skyscraper project in Changsha, the building that would have been the tallest in the world has been put on hold.
A report in the Changsha-based Xiaoxiang Morning… Read More>>
The Many Mysteries of Changsha’s 220-Storey, 270-Day Skyscraper
News this week that ground had been broken in Changsha for construction of the world’s tallest building brought media attention from around the world. And not all of the headlines were positive.
The decision by Changsha-based conglomerate Broad Sustainable Building… Read More>>