October 4–10, 2026
The Whole Picture is our Saturday summary of what was reported in the news through the week in architecture, engineering, construction and real estate, plus market indicators and the industry events ahead. This week we posted 113 stories from 28 different outlets:
Architecture 23 Engineering 18 Construction 20 Real Estate 52
Only the best buildings had a good week
Manhattan office vacancy fell to its lowest since before 2020 and a hedge fund agreed $375 a square foot, while metro Atlanta started no office building at all for the first time since 2011 and a quarter of Chicago's securitized debt is distressed. Ninety percent of American mall value now sits in 250 properties out of 900, and one construction dollar in four goes to projects above $1 billion. Away from the money, the week had its own momentum: seven AI design and construction tools launched or funded in as many days, reuse became the brief rather than the alternative on projects from the Chrysler Building to a Czech brewery, and Britain spent the week in court and in administration.
Key figures of the week
Six things that moved
Key takeaways, before you dive in
- The office recovery reached the top of the market and stopped there. Manhattan at a pre-pandemic low and Boston trophy rents at $105 a foot, against no new office starts in Atlanta since 2011.
- Concentration is now the whole story in retail and construction too — 90% of mall value in 250 of 900 properties, and a quarter of non-residential building spend in projects above $1 billion.
- Britain's building-safety reckoning played out in courtrooms and administrations, with a corporate manslaughter trial, two contractor collapses and a regulator backing off its own rejection policy.
- Reuse stopped being the alternative and became the brief, from the Chrysler Building to a Czech brewery, a Kyiv-region school and a pavilion built from its own salvaged timber.
- Seven AI tools shipped in seven days, and the market noticed — Autodesk rose 11% on the week after moving its assistant from chatbot to agent.
- Asia-Pacific supplied a quarter of the week's news, split between enforcement actions against developers and some of the most aggressive bidding anywhere.
The top of the market
The office recovery reached the top of the market and stopped there
Manhattan posted its strongest quarter since before the pandemic: vacancy at 12.6%, the lowest since before 2020 and down from 14.7% a year ago, leasing up 2.3% year over year, and direct asking rent at $84.56 per square foot. JLL called the improvement "broad-based across major industries". At the very top, trophy vacancy is 4.9% and Castle Hook Partners agreed $375 per square foot for the two-story penthouse at Related's 625 Madison Avenue — the third New York record this year, after $340 at One Vanderbilt and $327.50 at 9 West 57th Street. Eleven companies have now agreed above $300 per square foot in 2026, a threshold that was close to unprecedented before this year. "It's a scarcity issue," said JLL's Evan Margolin. "Tenants are willing to pay up to be in the best buildings."
Boston shows the same split in one number. Trophy high-rise rents reached $105.02 per square foot in the third quarter while the market average fell to $66.49 — a gap of nearly $40 driven by law firms, with Back Bay asking close to $130, 15% above pre-pandemic. With nothing being built, JLL's Bryan Montgomery expects the gap to widen: "People are paying more for commercial real estate now than they ever have before at the top of the market. That's only going to continue and intensify." Northern Virginia tightened for a sixth straight quarter to 21.7% vacancy, with availability at a ten-year low — though leasing there slowed to 1.3 million square feet with no deal above 100,000, so the market is tightening because supply is leaving, not because demand arrived.
Away from the trophy tier the picture inverts. Metro Atlanta has no new office development under way for the first time since 2011, despite positive absorption. "I don't see a ton of green shoots, honestly," said Coro Realty's Robert Fransen, who is buying existing buildings instead: "We do four different product types, and it's hard to make the math work on any of them." Chicago is the most distressed of eleven major metros at 25.3% of its CMBS balance delinquent or in special servicing, and the Aon Center — appraised at $824 million when its $536 million loan was securitized — is now valued at $195 million, with a three-year extension request "unequivocally denied".
Two transactions bracket the range. Tishman Speyer signed a 150-year ground lease on the Chrysler Building with Cooper Union and committed $235 million to turning three-quarters of its vacant space into prebuilt suites, two years after the previous leaseholder defaulted on $21 million of ground rent. And a landmarked 1900s bank note building at 70 Broad Street sold for $9.35 million — against $88 million asked a decade ago and $20 million paid at auction last year.
- Manhattan vacancy falls to 12.6%, lowest since before 2020 — Commercial Observer
- A hedge fund agrees $375 a square foot at 625 Madison — Bisnow
- Boston trophy rents hit $105 against a $66 market — Bisnow
- No new Atlanta office development since 2011 — Bisnow
- A quarter of Chicago's CMBS balance is distressed — Commercial Observer
- Tishman Speyer takes a 150-year lease on the Chrysler Building — Commercial Observer
Concentration
Ninety percent of mall value is in fewer than a third of the malls
Green Street reported national US mall values up 13% from a year earlier, ahead of every other property class. The figure describes about 250 buildings. Of roughly 900 malls in the country, 90% of the value sits in that top Class A group, according to Green Street's Vince Tibone — and below them, particularly across the roughly 300 Class C centers, distress continues. "A lot of malls are still struggling. Maybe most of the mall square footage is still in decline."
Valley West Mall outside Des Moines is the lower end made concrete: built for 138 retailers, down to 17 tenants, sold last month for $11 million, about 10% of its 2005 valuation, after four years in receivership. The buyer plans a mixed-use conversion that will take a decade. "We've got to do something to stem the tide here," said West Des Moines economic development director Ryan Moffatt. "Everything from the decline in retail sales to the decline in property tax valuation and the decline in traffic — you can feel it." Deutsche Bank moved to foreclose on a $260 million loan against the million-square-foot Pembroke Lakes Mall in Broward County, where $263.8 million is now owed on a mortgage that matured in March 2025 and a three-year extension was refused. And Chicago's Block 37 sold for $30 million, against the nearly $84 million CIM Group paid for it out of foreclosure in 2012.
The same concentration runs through construction. Projects valued above $1 billion now take about one of every four dollars spent on US non-residential construction, according to ConstructConnect's Michael Guckes — enough to distort the indicators the industry reads about itself. "To a degree not previously experienced, traditional indicators are being swayed more by large project construction timing and peculiarities than from broad economic indicators." Contractors holding data center awards carry substantially more backlog than those without, so the firms able to win megaprojects are pulling away from the rest inside the same headline recovery.
In the UK the concentration is written into the procurement. YPO appointed 99 contractors to a £5 billion major works framework — but five of them, Bam, Graham, Morgan Sindall, Robertson and Wates, hold the £1.25 billion collaborative partner lot, the only one offering direct appointment without a mini-competition. The largest projects sit in the smallest pot: lot five, above £60 million, has 14 contractors against £600 million.
- Mall values up 13%, but 90% of it in 250 of 900 properties — Bisnow
- Deutsche Bank forecloses on a $260M Broward mall loan — Bisnow
- Block 37 sells for $30M against $84M paid in 2012 — Bisnow
- Megaprojects take one in four non-residential dollars — Construction Dive
- 99 contractors on a £5B framework, five with direct appointment — Construction News
Liability
Britain's building-safety reckoning arrived in courtrooms and administrations
Higgins Homes went on trial at the Old Bailey for corporate manslaughter over the death of Michaela Boor, a 28-year-old mother struck by bricks falling from a tower crane as she walked past a Bow construction site in March 2018. Prosecutor Alexandra Healy KC described an "extraordinary" failure to risk-assess lifting operations: the lift was performed blind, with the operator unable to see the load once the building obscured it, the loading bay had been moved up a level the day before, there were no pavement closures, and no banksman on the roof. Higgins was principal contractor and principal designer. It denies the charges, as do four individuals also on trial.
The regulator, meanwhile, retreated from its own hard line. Weeks after warning it would reject Gateway 2 applications containing significant compliance gaps, the Building Safety Regulator said it will now refuse only where there is "no realistic prospect of approval within a reasonable timeframe", with every proposed rejection reviewed through its second and third lines of assurance. The reason is volume: applications rose from 12 in June to 17 in July, 34 in August and 64 in September as developers rushed to beat the Building Safety Levy. The regulator now has to triage, which means a weak application no longer gets bounced quickly — it sits in the queue alongside everyone else's.
Two contractor failures showed what happens downstream. Helix Construct's collapse halted six council housing sites in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, part of its 1,750-home Greenwich Builds program; the council says the wider program is on track precisely because it spreads work across several contractors. And Morgan Sindall's Lovell Partnerships was lined up to take over a £25 million Tower Hamlets scheme at Arnold Road in Bow, stalled since Jerram Falkus Construction — founded in 1884 — went under in February. A council review of the completed work found technical issues "including some relating to the building's concrete frame", which is why Lovell is going in on a preconstruction agreement rather than a fixed price.
Cost and schedule moved in the same direction across the public estate. Kier was reinstated on the High Containment building at the UK Health Security Campus in Harlow — a project that has gone from about £530 million to £3.5 billion and will not open until September 2038 — because re-procuring would have taken 12 to 18 months and "only three UK suppliers can deliver at this scale". NHS Grampian pushed Aberdeen's Anchor cancer center from December 2026 to May 2027 over water-safety measures, on a project whose budget has gone from a £134 million contract in 2016 to £438.6 million. And Kettering General paused a £17.7 million extension it was building to escape collapse-risk RAAC, because the costs moved again.
- Higgins Homes on trial for corporate manslaughter — Construction News
- Gateway 2 filings jump to 64 a month and the regulator softens — Construction News
- Helix collapse halts six Greenwich housing sites — Construction News
- Lovell inherits a Bow scheme with concrete frame defects — Construction News
- Kier reinstated on a campus that went from £530M to £3.5B — Construction News
- Aberdeen's cancer center slips again over water safety — Construction News
Method
The brief this week was almost always an existing building
Studio Marco Vermeulen completed Museum Vonk in Eindhoven from reclaimed cross-laminated timber salvaged from Biobasecamp, the studio's own 2019 Dutch Design Week pavilion, with hempcrete facades and asphalt from the site's former driving track crushed into the foundations. Getting the timber into a permanent building was the hard part: "For the contractor, working with recycled CLT was initially somewhat unfamiliar. Providing the necessary guarantees was an issue," Vermeulen told Dezeen. The panels went back to the factory for inspection, then "it was reused almost entirely in the new museum building without any problems".
Several projects took the same route from different directions. Studio KO reopened Paris's 1965 Bus Palladium nightclub as a six-floor hotel, demolishing the original structure — which could not carry the addition — on the argument that "buildings do not have only a structural life". Acronym Collective Studio turned a Czech brewery that stopped brewing in 1942 into a community center by moving the front door to the rounded corner facing the square. The Zaha Hadid Foundation will reopen the architect's former Clerkenwell studio as a public venue next month, reinstating Victorian fireplaces while keeping the Z-shaped door pulls Hadid installed. Office for Future will convert a school 140 kilometers south of Kyiv into 42 apartments for displaced families. And a Brooklyn firehouse built in 1857 is becoming a $17.8 million music school, twenty years after protesters were arrested trying to stop its sale.
Two projects designed for disassembly showed the two ways that promise can be used. Architects Office built a 661-square-meter São Paulo marketing pavilion from leftover glued-laminated timber and traditional joinery so it can be taken apart: "It was a huge puzzle, an immense jigsaw," said founder Greg Bousquet. Pedrali, whose 2023 anniversary pavilion near Bergamo was designed from the outset to be dismantled and relocated, chose the other option the design made available — keeping it where it is and replacing the timber roof with burnished brass shingles cut to the same pattern.
Conservation supplied the technical end. Qing Studio roofed Bastion No. 11 of the Jingzhou city wall, where repairs uncovered walls stacked across the Five Dynasties, Song, Ming and Qing periods, with a 330-square-meter canopy whose steel keeps a physical distance from the historic masonry and whose foundations reuse the temporary archaeological shelter's bearing points. In Maine, Gale Associates set out why the 1836 Stone Building pushed its own granite out of plane: two decades vacant and unheated, with failed roofs letting water into a composite wall that then froze and expanded, with no ability to dry inward.
- A museum built from a dismantled 2019 pavilion's timber — Dezeen
- Studio KO demolishes the Bus Palladium to save it — designboom
- Hadid's Clerkenwell studio reopens as a public venue — Dezeen
- A São Paulo pavilion jointed from leftover glulam — Dezeen
- A canopy over five dynasties of stacked city wall — ArchDaily
- Why a Maine granite asylum pushed its own walls out of plane — STRUCTURE
Tools
Seven AI products in seven days, and the market paid for one of them
The week produced a launch or a funding round almost every day. Kora Studio released a Revit plug-in that checks a façade panel against production data as the architect draws it, claiming a complex parametric family in five minutes instead of two days and instant compliance checks in place of two months. OpenSpace extended its platform with indoor positioning that works without GPS or beacons and an agent layer trained on imagery from 110,000 projects covering 77 billion square feet. Volve added an orchestration layer that will check, on a plain-language request, whether quantities in a specification match the drawings and the IFC model. Buildcheck raised $12 million for vision-based drawing review that reads a 2D PDF the way a reviewer does and catches a pipe running through a column — something a text-based system structurally cannot. Planpoint left stealth with floor plans that pin every photograph to the room it was taken in.
HENN gave away the one that is not a product. CarbonBudget, free at carbonbudget.eu, calculates whether a European building's emissions are compatible with the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C target — the framework a life cycle assessment lacks, since an LCA produces a number with no reference point. It joins MVRDV NEXT's CarbonSpace, Grimshaw's Minoro and Henning Larsen's OpenDetail as tools large practices have released publicly rather than kept in-house.
The one that moved money was Autodesk. At Autodesk University the company previewed a multi-year overhaul turning Autodesk Assistant from a single-application chatbot into a cross-cloud orchestrator spanning Forma, Fusion and Flow, arriving as a standalone platform in 2027. Autodesk shares rose 11% over the week — the best performance in our listed group by a distance, in a week when nine of the fourteen fell. The strategic shift is what the market priced: moving from a prompt box inside Revit to an agent that watches project data between sessions changes what the vendor is selling, and how hard it is to leave.
- Kora Studio checks a façade panel against production data as it is drawn — AEC Magazine
- OpenSpace drops the GPS requirement indoors — AEC Magazine
- Buildcheck raises $12M for vision-based drawing review — AEC Magazine
- HENN gives away a 1.5°C carbon budget calculator — ArchDaily
- Autodesk moves its assistant from chatbot to orchestrator — Architosh
Asia-Pacific
A quarter of the week's news, split between prosecutions and record bids
India produced three enforcement actions in a week. The Enforcement Directorate arrested the promoter of Ozone Urbana over ₹927.22 crore taken from homebuyers for apartments never delivered — aggravated, the agency says, by the company offering to pay buyers' pre-construction loan installments until possession, then not completing. Vatika's chairman was remanded for 14 days over ₹260 crore paid between 2010 and 2012 for plots that were reallocated after the layouts were revised. And the appellate tribunal rejected a Supreme Court panel's proposed 12-to-36-month band for 16 stalled Supertech projects: "There is no concrete date of completion," the bench said, demanding a per-project date and a disclosure of available finance by November 6.
Singapore's enforcement ran in parallel. Police seized the S$39 million proceeds of a commercial building sale at 2 Jalan Kilang Barat linked to Cambodia's Prince Group; three Sentosa Cove bungalows and a seaview plot seized in the S$3 billion money laundering case went to market by expression of interest after auctions failed; and eight public officers were referred to police after a review of 191 officers' property purchases near MRT stations that had not yet been announced. "A referral does not mean that wrongdoing has been established," minister Chan Chun Sing said.
Hong Kong ran hot and cold at once. Kerry Properties paid HK$4.31 billion for a Ho Man Tin site at HK$20,738 per square foot — 38% above the top market estimate and the highest Kowloon residential land price in nearly five years — while at least 100 secondary homes sold at a loss in September, up from 81, with losses reaching 30%. New World Development offered to swap about $991 million of 2027 and 2028 notes for up to $600 million of secured debt due 2032. And the government's investigation into construction defects at the luxury One Stanley development froze its financing, with banks holding off on mortgages and agents suspending viewings.
Elsewhere the money moved in. Brookfield entered Indian logistics with 10.5 million square feet bought from ESR across five cities, committing INR 43 billion. A Mirvac fund paid A$394 million for half of Sydney's 5 Martin Place at a 5.75% yield, valuing the tower a third above its June 2024 mark. IOI Properties and CapitaLand entered exclusive due diligence on One Raffles Place at an indicated S$2.3 billion to S$2.4 billion. And China's Golden Week new-home sales rose 15% from a year earlier but sat 9% below the 2024 holiday, with S&P expecting primary prices to keep falling for about two more years.
- India arrests Ozone Urbana's promoter over ₹927 crore — ET RealEstate
- Eight Singapore officers referred over MRT-adjacent purchases — The Business Times
- Kerry Properties bids 38% above the top Ho Man Tin estimate — South China Morning Post
- Banks freeze One Stanley mortgages over defect inquiry — South China Morning Post
- Brookfield buys 10.5M SF of Indian sheds from ESR — Mingtiandi
- China's Golden Week sales up 15%, still below 2024 — The Business Times
Construction updates
Every project below appeared in this week's news, and the stage is the milestone the story reported. Color matches the topic colors used for news on Buildings ID: Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Real Estate.
Deal board
Contract or project value Loan or refinancing Equity and funds Acquisition Distress or forced sale
These do not add up to a total: a four-year framework, a refinancing and a single building sale measure different things. Sterling, euro, riyal, rupee, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australian figures are converted at the rates quoted in the original reports. Announced without a headline value the same week: Tishman Speyer's 150-year Chrysler Building ground lease, Realty Income's $18 billion European portfolio and its first joint ventures, and the Al Habtoor Tower handover of more than 1,300 apartments.
Where the news came from
Where the week's news came from, which is not the same as where the market is.
Market indicators
Readings as published during the week; the figures at the top of this report are not repeated here.
| Indicator | Value / change | Source & date |
|---|---|---|
| US 30-year mortgage rate, September | Averaged 6.86%, ending the month at 7.03% — 51 basis points above a year ago | Freddie Mac, Oct 6, 2026 |
| US 10-year Treasury yield, September | Averaged 4.94%, up 26 basis points, and passed 5.00% at month end | NAHB Eye on Housing, Oct 6, 2026 |
| Federal funds target range | Raised a quarter point in September to 3.75%–4.00% | Federal Reserve, Oct 6, 2026 |
| US CMBS distress rate, August | 10.9%, down from 11.5% a year earlier; office alone 16% and 45.5% of the distressed balance | CRED iQ, Oct 5, 2026 |
| US apartment prices, year to August | Down nearly 5%, against flat prices for commercial property overall | MSCI, Oct 6, 2026 |
| Manhattan Class A asking rent, Q3 | All-time high of $85.45 per sq ft; trophy vacancy 4.9% | JLL and Colliers, Oct 6, 2026 |
| Northern Virginia office availability, Q3 | 33.6M sq ft, a ten-year low and 25.5% below the 2023 peak | JLL, Oct 9, 2026 |
| Irish commercial investment, nine months | Above €2B, heading for about €3B; average deal size €32M, up 60% | Savills, Oct 5, 2026 |
| Dutch logistics vacancy | 6.8%, against a record-low 2.6% in 2022; first-half take-up down to 950,000 sqm from 2.3M in 2021 | Savills, Oct 5, 2026 |
| Dubai transactions, Q3 | AED 90.62B ($24.67B) across 36,738 deals; 84.28% below AED 3M ($817,000) | Springfield Properties, Oct 5, 2026 |
| Abu Dhabi transactions, eight months | AED 155B ($42B), already above full-year 2025; foreign buyers 70% of residential value | ADREC, Oct 8, 2026 |
| Branded residence price premium | 44% globally over comparable unbranded homes; 59% across the Middle East and North Africa | Global Branded Residences, Oct 7, 2026 |
| Kowloon residential land, Ho Man Tin | HK$20,738 per sq ft of gross floor area, a five-year high and 38% above the top estimate | Vincorn Consulting, Oct 6, 2026 |
| China new-home sales, National Day holiday | +15% year over year across 25 cities, but 9% below the 2024 holiday by area; resales 21% below | Proptech Innovations, Oct 9, 2026 |
| Sydney prime office yield | 5.75% on the 5 Martin Place half-stake, valuing it a third above its June 2024 mark | Mingtiandi, Oct 7, 2026 |
Publicly traded companies
| Company | Ticker | Week | Year to date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Autodesk | ADSK | +11.0% | −20.5% |
| Arcadis | ARCAD.AS | +3.1% | +14.8% |
| CBRE Group | CBRE | +0.9% | −18.7% |
| Prologis | PLD | +0.4% | +1.4% |
| Vinci | DG.PA | +0.2% | −10.8% |
| D.R. Horton | DHI | −0.1% | −6.4% |
| AECOM | ACM | −0.6% | −37.8% |
| Holcim | HOLN.SW | −1.8% | −18.3% |
| JLL | JLL | −2.3% | −10.9% |
| Heidelberg Materials | HEI.DE | −4.1% | −36.2% |
| WSP Global | WSP.TO | −4.9% | −34.2% |
| Skanska | SKA-B.ST | −5.2% | +4.6% |
| Balfour Beatty | BBY.L | −6.6% | +23.2% |
| Vistry Group | VTY.L | −9.4% | −65.9% |
Closing prices in each company's own currency, Friday, October 2 to Friday, October 9; year to date measured from the last close of 2025. The S&P 500 rose 1.2% over the same five sessions, so most of this group underperformed a rising market. Autodesk's 11% gain came the week it set out its agentic AI strategy at Autodesk University. The British contractors took the worst of it — Vistry down 9.4% and Balfour Beatty 6.6% — in the week the building-safety regulator's backlog and two contractor collapses were in the news. Prices from Yahoo Finance; information only, not investment advice.
Industry events ahead
Flagship and national-level events only, as held in the Buildings ID events calendar on October 10; dates as confirmed by the organizers. The full calendar, including chapter and regional events, is on the site under News → Events.
| Event | Date | Location |
|---|---|---|
| ACI Concrete Convention, Fall 2026 | Oct 11–14, 2026 | Atlanta, USA |
| MBA Annual Convention and Expo 2026 | Oct 11–14, 2026 | Chicago, USA |
| NCREIF Fall Conference 2026 | Oct 12–15, 2026 | Orlando, USA |
| Expo CIHAC 2026 | Oct 14–16, 2026 | Mexico City, Mexico |
| RIBA Stirling Prize and International Awards 2026 | Oct 15, 2026 | London, UK |
| Healthcare Design Conference and Expo 2026 | Oct 17–20, 2026 | New Orleans, USA |
| CREtech New York 2026 | Oct 20–21, 2026 | New York, USA |
| Procore Groundbreak 2026 | Oct 20–22, 2026 | Orlando, USA |
| The Property Congress 2026 | Oct 20–22, 2026 | Brisbane, Australia |
| Edifica 2026, international construction fair | Oct 20–22, 2026 | Santiago, Chile |
| Greenbuild International Conference and Expo 2026 | Oct 20–23, 2026 | New York, USA |
| Big 5 Construct Kenya 2026 | Oct 21–23, 2026 | Nairobi, Kenya |
| Green Building Conference and Expo 2026 | Oct 22–23, 2026 | Venice, Italy |
| ACEC Fall Conference 2026 | Oct 25–28, 2026 | Phoenix, USA |
| CoreNet Global Summit, North America 2026 | Oct 26–28, 2026 | Chicago, USA |
| ULI Fall Meeting 2026 | Oct 26–28, 2026 | Miami, USA |
| Cityscape Qatar 2026 | Oct 27–29, 2026 | Doha, Qatar |
| Green Building Convention 2026 | Oct 27–29, 2026 | Cape Town, South Africa |
| NCSEA Structural Engineering Summit 2026 | Oct 27–30, 2026 | San Francisco, USA |
| Building Green Copenhagen 2026 | Oct 28–29, 2026 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Australian Architecture Conference 2026 | Oct 30–31, 2026 | Brisbane, Australia |
| Saudi Build 2026 | Nov 2–5, 2026 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| MAPIC 2026 | Nov 3–4, 2026 | Cannes, France |
| Smart City Expo World Congress 2026 | Nov 3–5, 2026 | Barcelona, Spain |
| XIV Ibero-American Architecture and Urbanism Biennial | Nov 3–7, 2026 | Brasília, Brazil |
| Dubai Design Week 2026 | Nov 3–8, 2026 | Dubai, UAE |
| DBIA Design-Build Conference and Expo 2026 | Nov 4–6, 2026 | Cleveland, USA |
| IStructE Structural Awards 2026 | Nov 6, 2026 | London, UK |
| NAR NXT 2026 | Nov 6–8, 2026 | New Orleans, USA |
| BDNY 2026, Boutique Design New York | Nov 8–9, 2026 | New York, USA |
| Trimble Dimensions 2026 | Nov 9–11, 2026 | Las Vegas, USA |
| COP31 | Nov 9–20, 2026 | Antalya, Türkiye |
| African Union for Housing Finance Annual Conference 2026 | Nov 10–13, 2026 | Lusaka, Zambia |
| Greenbuilding Brasil 2026 | Nov 12, 2026 | São Paulo, Brazil |
| Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2026 | Nov 14, 2026 – Apr 14, 2027 | Sharjah, UAE |
| Cityscape Global 2026 | Nov 16–19, 2026 | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Nareit REITworld 2026 | Nov 16–19, 2026 | Atlanta, USA |
| Dezeen Awards 2026 | Nov 16, 2026 | London, UK |
| OPTECH 2026, Rental Housing Technology Conference | Nov 16–18, 2026 | Las Vegas, USA |
| Business of Design Week 2026 | Nov 16–21, 2026 | Hong Kong SAR |
| World Architecture Festival 2026 | Nov 18–20, 2026 | Fort Lauderdale, USA |
| IFMA World Workplace 2026 | Nov 18–20, 2026 | Anaheim, USA |
| Concreta 2026 | Nov 18–21, 2026 | Porto, Portugal |
| ACETECH Mumbai 2026 | Nov 19–22, 2026 | Mumbai, India |
| Big 5 Global 2026 | Nov 23–26, 2026 | Dubai, UAE |
| BIM World MUNICH 2026 | Nov 24–25, 2026 | Munich, Germany |
| Cityscape Bahrain 2026 | Nov 24–28, 2026 | Sakhir, Bahrain |
| London Build Expo 2026 | Nov 25–26, 2026 | London, UK |
| Green Building Congress 2026 | Nov 26–28, 2026 | Mumbai, India |
| Design Miami 2026 | Dec 1–6, 2026 | Miami Beach, USA |
| MIPIM Asia Summit 2026 | Dec 2–3, 2026 | Hong Kong SAR |
| The Buildings Show 2026 | Dec 2–4, 2026 | Toronto, Canada |
| Japan Build Tokyo 2026 | Dec 2–4, 2026 | Tokyo, Japan |
| SIMI 2026, Salon de l'Immobilier d'Entreprise | Dec 8–10, 2026 | Paris, France |
| ICSC New York 2026 | Dec 9–10, 2026 | New York, USA |
| Taipei Building Show 2026 | Dec 10–13, 2026 | Taipei, Taiwan |
| PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards Grand Final | Dec 11, 2026 | Bangkok, Thailand |
| Festa dell'Architetto 2026 | Dec 16, 2026 | Italy, venue to be announced |
Additional sources
- Thousands of terracotta fins shade the 302-meter Wasl Tower — ArchDaily
- Foster + Partners spans Bilbao's museum on V-columns — Dezeen
- Herzog & de Meuron and Sasaki complete Amherst's student center — ArchDaily
- Nikken Sekkei rebuilds a Togo Murano block opposite Tokyo Station — ArchDaily
- A 29,700 sqm cultural landmark folded into artificial hills — ArchDaily
- An IIT Madras music center of bamboo vaults, built in eleven months — Dezeen
- A Moroccan mosque monumental from the road, level from within — ArchDaily
- 4MW of heat and 100dB inside Cambridge's new Whittle Laboratory — CIBSE Journal
- A sealed box built inside a working laboratory in nine months — Planning, Building & Construction Today
- A hydraulic prop in a heatwave fights the ground and itself — Ground Engineering
- Fifty monitored buildings running 15% better than predicted — CIBSE Journal
- 178 robotically printed earth bricks, each with a different job — designboom
- A Danish supermarket running 60% below its benchmark — ACHR News
- The federal government pays GEO Group $950M for 2,644 beds — Commercial Observer
- An activist takes 5.8% of the Empire State Building's owner — Bisnow
- Jeddah Tower passes 474 meters at level 118 — Arabian Business