Skyscrapers, Milan gets a makeover between history and ecology

The Lombard capital is changing its face again: a Shard of Glass, a champion building of clean energy, will be inaugurated at Porta Nuova within this year - And the Americans of Hines are investing 200 million to relaunch the Torre Velasca, a building that symbolizes the economic boom…
Suzhou, China puts on… long johns

In the Chinese province of Jiangsu, north of Shanghai, the 'Gate of the Orient', a 300-meter skyscraper with an arch on top that has been nicknamed "the long johns" on the net, is nearing completion.