Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire - February 06, 2025 Ivory Coast is the second largest producer of palm oil in Africa, according to the US Department of Agriculture, only behind Nigeria. Camera: LEGNAN KOULA.

Iconic skylines are one way to immediately identify some cities. Some looming skyscrapers haven't stood the test of time, becoming abandoned or remaining incomplete. Cities must figure out what to ...

London's first skyscraper was built in 1925. We've seen four distinct waves since. 100 years ago, London was a flat city, punctuated only by steeples, chimneys and the dome of St Paul's.

Another week, another skyscraper is given planning permission in the City of London. At 33 storeys, it'll be far from the tallest structure in the City cluster was completed. But 70 Gracechurch ...

The 190-metre-tall skyscraper has been created for developer Henderson Land on the world's most expensive plot, which it purchased in 2017 for £764,000 per square metre. In New York, Foster ...

Above: OODA has unveiled designs for a pair of kinked skyscrapers in the city. Image by Plomp. Top: MVRDV has designed a tower in the shape of a head. Image by MVRDV Portuguese firm OODA is among ...

Though the highest point in Nevada -- Boundary Peak -- towers 13,147 feet above the remote wilderness of Southern Nevada, the tallest buildings are concentrated in the Silver State's population ...

The tallest skyscraper in Europe is also probably the coldest. The Lakhta Centre, 12km from the centre of St Petersburg, stands at 462m tall - 19 metres taller than the Empire State Building in ...

The £80bn 'ghost city' in Malaysia is home to several unfinished skyscrapers, with hardly anyone in sight. Nine years after its launch, it's estimated that just 15 percent of the project has been ...

LONDON — Work to give 21st-century London yet another skyscraper has uncovered traces — in fact chunks — of the city’s origins almost 2,000 years ago. Archeologists exploring the site of a ...

Current population data for Kinshasa is incomplete, but as of the 2005 census it stood at just over 5.7 million. 6. Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (5.62 million) Abidjan, the economic capital of the ...