San Francisco's Rincon Hill neighborhood has so far failed to achieve the prominence of the nearby neighborhoods of Nob Hill or Telegraph Hill. But city leaders are hoping that Urban West Associates' newest residential project, One Rincon Hill, will bring some much desired attention to the area, which is located in the South of Market district just south of San Francisco's downtown financial district.
Tennessee may not be the place where you'd expect to find one of the biggest skyscrapers in the States, but the 1,118-foot Signature Tower in downtown Nashville will be the tallest U.S. building outside of New York and Chicago and the tallest in the Southeast when it's completed in 2010.
It's all about the view at Q1, a residential tower with ground-floor retail that looms over Surfers Paradise, one of the hottest beaches in Gold Coast City in Queensland, Australia.
Can one building be the economic catalyst for an entire city? It might, as long as that building is Burj Dubai, a 1,680-foot tower that anchors Downtown Burj Dubai, a $20 billion, 500-acre downtown development in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.