A rooftop running track will connect the two towers of this housing complex, designed by Milan-based Peter Pichler Architecture for a Dutch town. Measuring 35,000 square metres in total, the scheme will include 260 apartments, set within two L-shaped towers at opposite corners of the site. >>>

Timber tower construction is the current obsession of architects, with new projects claiming to be the world's next tallest popping up all over the globe. But this latest proposal from Japanese company Sumitomo Forestry Co. and architects Nikken Sekkei would blow everything else out of the water, as they have announced plans for the world's first supertall wood structured skyscraper in Tokyo. Known as the W350 Project, the development would feature a mixed-use program in hopes of creating an environmentally and socially sustainable community in the sky. Renderings for the complex show... >>>