arranha céu

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China built a 300-meter horizontal skyscraper that connects four towers at a height of 250 meters, with a steel structure weighing 12,000 tons, equivalent to the Eiffel Tower, and it was assembled on the ground before being lifted with hydraulic systems.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 17/05/2026 at 01:26

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A 262-meter skyscraper in New York is about to be completed and is surprising for having an infinity pool at the top, only 26 giant apartments, and a shape so thin that it seems impossible to those looking up from below.

Flavia Marinho 28/04/2026 at 17:18

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Someone cut corners on the foundation of a $400 million skyscraper in Manhattan, and now the 60-story building is leaning continuously while glass panels threaten to fall onto the street.

Bruno Teles 20/04/2026 at 23:51

Construction

Monterrey is erecting a 484-meter tower that will dethrone all the skyscrapers in Latin America — it has already surpassed the 52nd floor and there are 170 meters left to the top…

Douglas Avila 17/04/2026 at 18:17

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After being stalled for seven years in the desert, the 1 km skyscraper in Saudi Arabia has resumed construction, rising one floor every three days, and is now on track to surpass the Burj Khalifa by 2028.

Douglas Avila 12/04/2026 at 07:58

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A 55-story skyscraper standing 373 meters tall will be built in place of the Twin Towers in New York, with a capacity for 10,000 people and over 180,000 square meters.

Noel Budeguer 23/03/2026 at 14:45

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Few People Know, but China Built a Giant Luxury Building, 274 Meters Tall, as High as the Eiffel Tower, but No One Lives There and It Has a Unique Purpose

Flavia Marinho 14/02/2026 at 04:44

Plano ambicioso para salvar o prédio mais odiado de Paris: reforma de 300 milhões de euros vai diminuir arranha-céu de 210 metros na capital francesa e reduzir impacto visual na paisagem urbana após 50 anos de rejeição

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Ambitious Plan to Save Paris’s Most Hated Building: Million-Euro Renovation Costing 300 Million Euros Will Reduce 210-Meter Skyscraper in the French Capital and Minimize Visual Impact on the Urban Landscape After 50 Years of Rejection

Flavia Marinho 12/02/2026 at 22:24

Edifício com mais de 100 anos e mais de 100 metros de altura é reaberto ao público em São Paulo, libera terraço com vista panorâmica e inicia nova fase de revitalização com meta de receber até 1 milhão de visitantes por ano

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Building Over 100 Years Old and More Than 100 Meters Tall Reopens to the Public in São Paulo, Opens Rooftop with Panoramic View and Begins New Revitalization Phase Aiming to Welcome Up to 1 Million Visitors per Year

Noel Budeguer 10/02/2026 at 21:09

Construction

Project Proposes 350-Meter, 70-Story Wooden Skyscraper in Tokyo Using 185,000 Cubic Meters of Wood to Store Carbon, Reduce Emissions by Up to 60%, and Reposition Japan’s Engineering

Noel Budeguer 22/01/2026 at 20:35

A Shanghai Tower é um arranha céu localizado em Pudong, em Xangai, e faz parte do conjunto de supertorres que domina o skyline da região

Construction

Shanghai Tower: The 632-Meter Skyscraper with a Spiral Facade That Reduced Wind Load by 24% and Became a Showcase of Engineering in China

Noel Budeguer 14/12/2025 at 13:42

O Taipei 101 é um arranha céu de 101 andares localizado em Taipei, em Taiwan, e por muito tempo foi lembrado como um marco na corrida por edifícios cada vez mais altos

Construction

Taipei 101: The 508-Meter Skyscraper That Installed a 660-Ton Damper to Ensure Maximum Safety Against Typhoons and Earthquakes

Noel Budeguer 14/12/2025 at 13:07

China built a 300-meter horizontal skyscraper that connects four towers at a height of 250 meters, with a steel structure weighing 12,000 tons, equivalent to the Eiffel Tower, and it was assembled on the ground before being lifted with hydraulic systems.

A 262-meter skyscraper in New York is about to be completed and is surprising for having an infinity pool at the top, only 26 giant apartments, and a shape so thin that it seems impossible to those looking up from below.

Someone cut corners on the foundation of a $400 million skyscraper in Manhattan, and now the 60-story building is leaning continuously while glass panels threaten to fall onto the street.

Monterrey is erecting a 484-meter tower that will dethrone all the skyscrapers in Latin America — it has already surpassed the 52nd floor and there are 170 meters left to the top…

After being stalled for seven years in the desert, the 1 km skyscraper in Saudi Arabia has resumed construction, rising one floor every three days, and is now on track to surpass the Burj Khalifa by 2028.

A 55-story skyscraper standing 373 meters tall will be built in place of the Twin Towers in New York, with a capacity for 10,000 people and over 180,000 square meters.

Few People Know, but China Built a Giant Luxury Building, 274 Meters Tall, as High as the Eiffel Tower, but No One Lives There and It Has a Unique Purpose

Ambitious Plan to Save Paris’s Most Hated Building: Million-Euro Renovation Costing 300 Million Euros Will Reduce 210-Meter Skyscraper in the French Capital and Minimize Visual Impact on the Urban Landscape After 50 Years of Rejection

Building Over 100 Years Old and More Than 100 Meters Tall Reopens to the Public in São Paulo, Opens Rooftop with Panoramic View and Begins New Revitalization Phase Aiming to Welcome Up to 1 Million Visitors per Year

Project Proposes 350-Meter, 70-Story Wooden Skyscraper in Tokyo Using 185,000 Cubic Meters of Wood to Store Carbon, Reduce Emissions by Up to 60%, and Reposition Japan’s Engineering

Shanghai Tower: The 632-Meter Skyscraper with a Spiral Facade That Reduced Wind Load by 24% and Became a Showcase of Engineering in China

Taipei 101: The 508-Meter Skyscraper That Installed a 660-Ton Damper to Ensure Maximum Safety Against Typhoons and Earthquakes

In the cold desert of Ladakh, where it hardly rains, engineer Sonam Wangchuk created the ice stupa, a tower that freezes winter water and stores it for irrigating crops in the spring, a simple engineering feat that mimics nature.

Libya built over 4,000 kilometers of underground pipelines to bring water from the Sahara to coastal cities in a project that the government itself called the Eighth Wonder of the World.

Almost 6,000 residents live concentrated along a single street nearly 9 km long in the interior of Poland. Houses form a continuous row, and behind them, narrow agricultural strips emerge, creating one of the most unusual rural patterns in Europe.

Chinese woman planted trees for decades while sand buried part of her house, received $5,000 from an American in 1999, and helped transform the desert into a forest of 8 million trees in China.

Desert sand, previously discarded for being too smooth for concrete, becomes an ecological brick in the United Arab Emirates, dispensing with Portland cement, curing at room temperature, and attempting to transform dunes useless for construction into raw material for a new arid engineering.

Described by astronauts as one of the most unlikely natural phenomena on Earth, the Okavango Delta spreads over up to 15,000 square kilometers in the middle of the desert and transforms Botswana into a living labyrinth of channels, islands, and flooded areas.

They planted a sea of eucalyptus to produce cellulose, but the monoculture turned into a green desert, dried up springs and rivers, and pushed families out of regions in Minas Gerais and Bahia.