We can't expect many new skyscrapers to break ground in NYC for a while, so for some rendering porn, we head to...Boston ? Check out One Congress Street, a four-million-square-foot office/residential/retail development designed by Cook + Fox set to enter the public review process. Writes the Archpap...

Putting a neat little bow on the real estate boom that was, brokerage Prudential Douglas Elliman and our friend Jonathan Miller of appraisal firm Miller Samuel have issued three reports covering the past decade. The 1999-2008 reports cover Manhattan co-ops and condos, the Manhattan townhouse market ...

Oobject lists "15 skyscrapers on hold," which is heavy on Dubai, but does contain one NYC project (56 Leonard, holla!). Not shy about kicking a guy when he's down, Oobject adds: "The disappointing reality is that almost none of them have any particular architectural merit, apart from Calatrava's Chi...

Got 500 million euros to kick around? Then we suggest snapping up the 20-acre Villa Leopolda estate in the south of France, and help out credit-crunched nickel magnate Mikhail Prokhorov, who went to contract on the world's most expensive property but now wants his 44-million-euro deposit back. A spo...

HOBOKEN— The new W Hotel in Hoboken has long been seen as a potential gamechanger for the 'hood, but a Curbed tipster thinks it might miss its promised March 18 opening: "So I drive by this place every day, and they're apparently a month from opening. I call bullshit, given the mess of construc...

[Top photo: Newsday; Bottom photos: Sotheby's] Dragon's Head, the 55,000-square-foot Southampton mansion known as Elysium before a tax cheat bought it in 1979 and broke "almost every zoning law in the book" ( Forbes' words) by renovating and enlarging the structure beyond all recognition, will soon ...

1) Now that he's set up nicely at 15 Central Park West, Sting is once again ready to try and unload his 2nd/3rd-floor duplex at the Brentmore a few blocks north (Billy Joel's old pad). It had been listed in 2006 for $24 million and then $20 million, and now, adjusted for the luxury market meltdown, ...

Victoria Gotti's gated Old Westbury, L.I., estate—made famous on the Growing Up Gotti reality show and recently priced at $4.8 million—is now asking $3.2 million . The news comes via Newsday's Real LI blog, and the listing (and its photos) can be seen on Zillow. In related news: Holy crap,...

1) It's a story that was already written by the Observer last month, but the Times' look at how residents in luxury buildings are dialing-down their concierge service needs is a how-to for living fabulously in difficult times. Some bits of advice: Raid your wine cellar and bring your own bottles to ...

Have you been wondering what Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson has been up to ever since his NYC Waterfalls turned off their tree-browning rain of terror? Oh, you know, the usual: kicking back, catching up on some reading, enjoying a piña colada or two and, uh, creating a laser-cut nega...