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Three buildings - one twenty storeys high - have collapsed in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, killing at least five people and injuring many others. The collapse occurred late on Wednesday (Rio time), near the municipal theatre on the city's Cinelandia square. The tallest of the buildings was twenty storeys high, says the city's mayor Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes, whilst the second tallest had ten floors and the third had three or four. The latest developments come as Rio remains under worldwide scrutiny in the lead up to host the World Cup soccer in 2014 and the 2016 Summer Olympics.

23 Marina, the exclusive waterfront address overlooking the azure blue waters of the man-made Marina Waterfront in Dubai, was until August 2012, considered the world's tallest residential tower at 392m... Click the link to read more »

The upcoming CMA Tower in Riyadh is said to be tallest hi-tech tower in the world and will host the CMA headquarters, the government organization responsible for regulating Saudi Arabia's capital markets. Check it out…

MAD Architects designs Quito, Ecuador's tallest mixed-use building offering a design solution that integrates nature into high-density living - the vision for an ecological future. 

Shay Cleary Architects design Ireland's tallest building - an iconic piece of contemporary commercial architecture with a distinctive and highly innovative external exoskeleton; also, the first building project in Europe to achieve LEED V3 Platinum certification ahead of practical completion.