This portable concrete/mortar mixer has wheels and a towing tongue so that it can be towed by a motor vehicle and moved around the worksite by hand, and its rotation is powered by mains electricity. The lever allows the concrete/mortar to be tipped into a wheelbarrow.

The Oasis Exhibition Centres are planned for a number of locations across China, but the first will be located on a site in the Longquan District of Chengdu.

Rem Koolhaas' OMA has won a competition to design a financial office tower in Shenzhen, China, the firm's second building in the city after the soon-to-complete Shenzhen Stock Exchange.

The Shard was officially inaugurated in July 2012, but today marks the first time that the public can enter the 72-storey building and ascend all the way to the uppermost floor.From this vantage point, 244 metres above ground, visitors are exposed to the elements and are faced with panoramic views stretching for over 40 miles.Renzo Piano designed the mixed-use skyscraper in 2000 and it became the tallest building in Europe in 2011, before being overtaken at the end of 2012 by Moscow tower Mercury City.Piano described the building as "a vertical city" in an interview with Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs before construction began, but explained that he was never concerned with breaking records. "Towers usually have a very bad reputation, and normally a deserved reputation, because they are normally a symbol of arrogance and power," he said. "All this is about doing a building that is not arrogant."