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STORY SOURCE 'Moscow’s rapidly growing skyline will soon feature an eye-popping new addition: Crystal Island , which will be the world’s biggest building when completed. Sir Norman Foster’s mountainous 27 million square feet spiraling “city within a building” will cost $4 billion and it is scheduled to be built within next 5 years. The Crystal Island will be Lord Foster’s second large scale project in the Russian capital, and his third new building design that resembles a volcano (we’re talking about his two mountainous buildings in Astana, Kazakstan) . Although many people are calling this design the ‘Christmas Tree’ of Moscow - we can’t help but be reminded of the utopian and also rather volcanic X-Seed 4000 design for Tokyo . Unlike that pipe-dream project, however, Foster has a track record of getting buildings built , so the likelihood is high that we will see this striking structure towering over the Kremlin within 5 years time. The statistics for the project are absolutely

Construction began Monday on what was expected to be the world's tallest Ferris wheel, which will soar 680 feet (207 meter) over the Chinese capital when it is complete. The $99 million Beijing Great Wheel was supposed to be open to tourists at next summer's Olympic Games, but the project had been delayed by a number of design changes. The Ferris wheel was being built in eastern Beijing's Chaoyang Park, which is also the venue for beach volleyball in the Aug. 8-24 Olympics. It will have 48 air-conditioned compartments each of which can carry up to 40 passengers. It is expected to be completed in 2009.