Joe Quirke

AtkinsRéalis to lead design of Hong Kong-Shenzhen technology park

Aerospace manufacturer SpaceX plans to build the world’s biggest spaceport at a cost of $100bn in Vermilion Parish on Louisiana’s Gulf coast.

A former Ku Klux Klan headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas will be refurbished as an arts and cultural centre with areas dedicated to communities targeted by violence and exclusion including the Black, Catholic, Hispanic, immigrant, Jewish and LGBTQ+ population.

France and Saudi Arabia say they’ll collaborate on a €6bn project to build three theme parks near Paris.

Beijing has been named as the world capital of architecture for 2029 by heritage organisation Unesco and the Union of International Associations.

The foundations have been laid for what has been described as the world’s largest building, according to Elon Musk – the 100-million-sq-ft Terafab project, a semiconductor factory in Texas being built on behalf of Space X and Tesla.

Sacramento’s first permitted concrete-printed home has been completed in 12 days by Californian companies K4K Construction and RIC Robotics.

Sheldon Whitehouse, a US senator for Rhode Island and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, has issued an open letter to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, alleging mismanagement of federal funds for its renovation.

Dubai has launched a digital twin for the city with 3D models of more than 195,000 buildings, 330,000 public facilities and 280,000 infrastructure assets.

Low-carbon cement is being used for the structure and foundation of the TM Tower in Benidorm, south eastern Spain, due to become one of Europe’s tallest residential buildings, rising 200m over 64 floors.