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Measuring 44 heels, 159 meters high and 241-room hotel rooms, the Mandarin Oriental skyscraper burned down in downtown Beijing.
The luxury hotel included in the complex of the new headquarters of Chinese television burned down completely, the cause of the tragedy were probably fireworks.
The skyscraper, built for over 6 years, has not yet been put into use, so there probably was nobody inside.

The turbulent and long history of the Vauxhall Tower skyscraper project is coming to an end. The idea was created already in the seventies. On the south bank of the Thames, the first apartment building in London was to be built, the height of which would exceed 150 meters. The crisis in 1973 prevented the implementation of this bold project. Even then the idea met with sharp and violent criticism. Today, after more than thirty years, the project is closer to implementation than ever before.

A new object will appear on the Paris horizon. The 50-storey, 200-foot-high glass pyramid is to be the first of six innovative towers on the outskirts of the city.

Caves placed over 7 meters under the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan were opened by Mexican archaeologists. The study of the cave and the tunnel, which is 90 meters long, are to answer questions about the rituals of nearly 200,000 people living in the city. The Aztecs believed that this is a sacred place "where people became gods". At the end of the tunnel, sacrifices were made.

Burj Dubai has become the highest construction ever erected. On May 20, 2008 work began on the 165th floor of a skyscraper, which means that it reached the height of 649.7 meters, and thus exceeded the previous record in this field belonging to radio mast in Konstantynów . Recall that before collapsing on August 8, 1991 he had a 64.338 meter height. The construction of a new record holder in this field has not yet been completed, it is planned for the third quarter of next year. Its height will probably reach 818 meters.

One of the most original and tallest buildings in the capital will probably be at the Daszyńskiego roundabout - it will be a 170-meter tower with glazed loggias on the facade, which at night are to be illuminated with dozens of colors like a kaleidoscope.

The French office of Serero Architects won the competition for the design of the reconstruction of the Eiffel Tower. The design of the office will not interfere with the current structure of the building, but will only add a new element, a viewing tower at the top. The platform will be located at an altitude of 296 meters, it will expand the usable area from 280 to 580 m2. The construction will be made of Kewlar, a thin but extremely strong carbon fiberglass. The platform will be attached to the tower temporarily, only for the celebration of the 120th anniversary of the construction of the symbol of Paris.

The concrete wall of high-rise buildings has long obscured the picturesque hills surrounding the city of Chongqing in China. Architects want to restore the mountains of the urban panorama.
In the meeting place of the yellow waters of the Yangtze River with the blue waters of Jialing, there is Chongqing, a city in the mind of Chinese strategists, prepared for the largest business cluster after Shanghai.

Burj-Al-Taqa, a project by Gerber Architekten, a German studio, provides zero carbon dioxide emissions.

New skyscraper of the well-known architect Santiago Calatrava, however, will be built. On April 19, the project received the approval of the Chicago City Planning Commission. The 610-meter high tower will stand at the mouth of the Chicago River - it will house 1200 luxury apartments and will be the highest residential building in the world.