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Years it took to turn the 24-story Piraeus Tower, one of the first skyscrapers in Piraeus, the port city neighboring Athens,
Number of triangular panels on the roof of the new timber-structured Sydney Fish Market, designed by Danish firm 3XN with BVN and Aspect Studios, fitted with solar panels: 350
Number of households being formed every year in Spain, while fewer than 90,000 new homes are built there annually: 250,000
Starting price for the Sustainable Alternative Modular House — or SAM House — which can sustain hurricane winds up to 200 mph (322 kmh) and is...
Minimum number of times the rationalist Casa del Fascio, or House of Fascism, designed in 1932 by Italian architect Giuseppe Terragni, then 28, and completed in 1936,
Size of the main building of the “People’s Palace” in the Syrian capital of Damascus, where the ruling Assad family lived until the beginning of December 2024, while tens of...
Share of the 100 tallest buildings currently under construction worldwide that are in China: 61
Price paid in 2024 for a European-style home in Hong Kong owned by Hui Ka Yan, founder of the onetime property giant China Evergrande, who in 2009 paid $130...
Amount the tenant of a 2-bedroom apartment in a low-energy property in West Kirby, England, pays monthly in energy costs in the winter: £10 ($12.50)
Age of American architect Victor A. Lundy — Word War II veteran, child of Russian immigrants, and designer of the iconic St. Paul Lutheran Church built in 1959 in Sarasota,...
First year the British public rose in protest against urban planning — the destruction of Covent Garden in London and the intention to...
Number of core-and-shell single-family homes per year that one of Automated Architecture's (AUAR) pop-up micro-factories...
Number of years the construction of Saudi Arabia’s kilometer-high Jeddah Tower, which will become the world’s tallest skyscraper upon completion, was stalled
In the United States in 2019, 37% of businesses were located in large urban areas. The share today, after the pandemic and working...
Length of time that former President Donald Trump's 2020 executive order requiring government planners to “beautify public spaces and inspire...
Number of floors the proposed mass-timber Marcus Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will exceed the 25-story Ascent high-rise, also in Milwaukee, that is currently...
Estimated number of stairways and interiors of modern gems around the globe that artist Adam Štěch has photographed: 5,000
Number of rental units expected to be completed in the United States by the end of the year, marking new heights in apartment construction: 518,108
Reduction in the surface temperature of a building if its facade takes the shape of a zigzag: 3 °Celsius...
Purchase price for a one-room government house in Kenya’s capital of Nairobi: $3,800 (€3,500)
Number of ownerless apartments in Mariupol listed for sale by the statelet Donetsk National Republic, where roughly 350,000 Mariupolans from a...
Minimum number of pensioners living in Mirabella, a 20-story “university retirement community” on the campus of Arizona...
Years the Michigan Central Station Detroit stood vacant before more than 3,100 skilled tradespeople worked 1.7 million hours to restore the iconic building that...
Number of years the Interdesign Building, a brutalist concrete structure in Beirut designed by the late architectural designer Khalil Khouri,
Amount the Los Angeles City Council has approved to set up barriers, install an all-encompassing fence, enlist private on-site security, and...
Number of companies in major markets, including the UK, Germany, and France, that are seeking to decrease their footprints in the next three to five years,
Number of “new well located properties over the five fiscal years to June 2029” the Australian government plans to build because of the increased record of...
Number of workers complaining about temperature in a new mixed-use building in Oslo avoiding traditional HVAC (in a typical office,...
Estimated damage to homes around the world by the year 2050 due to global warming: $25 trillion (€23.3 trillion)
Cost of a DIY home in California built by using cob, earth, water, hemp, straw and only paying for screws, glue, and silicone: $200 (€187)
Number of swimming pools constructed or renovated for the upcoming Olympic Games taking place in Paris from July 26 to August 11: 25
Number of solar panels the new Central Control Building in Konya, designed by Bilgin Architects for Turkish company Kalyon Energy, serves across an area of 20 square kilometers (7.7...
Time it took to erect Europe’s biggest 3D-printed building — The Wave House, a data center in Heidelberg, Germany — measuring 600 m2 (6,600 sf): 140 hours
Number of years a resident of Taipei has to save their entire salary, without expenditures, as the price-to-income ratio hits a historic high (15.5) in Taiwan: 15