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To host major international athletic competitions in 2014 and 2016, including last year’s Olympic Summer Games, Rio de Janeiro needed to expand its international airport capacity to about 24 million annual passengers from 8 million, and up to 34 million by 2020.

Reflecting the international nature of the teams that helped to build it, the $431-million Terminal 5 facility at King Khaled International Airport is the new crown jewel of the Saudi Arabian world gateway. 

This $1-billion project, which more than doubled brewery capacity, faced cross-border challenges.

The Hawassa Industrial Park, located in Hawassa, Ethiopia, was completed in July 2016 with assistance from China.

Rio de Janeiro’s 1.18-million-square-meter Rio 2016 Olympic Park— located in Barra da Tijuca, the city’s West Zone—served as the hub of South America’s first Olympiad.

Built in less than 11 months for the World Botanic Expo 2016 in Antalya, Turkey, the 114-meter-tall Antalya viewing tower will continue to serve visitors long after the event, offering panoramic views of mountain, valley and sea.

Complex geometric forms inspired by Islamic architecture create a richly textured outer skin for this four-building cultural center, which includes theaters, cinemas, concert halls and conference space.

Located in an area of high seismicity, the 25-story office tower was designed to resist an extreme earthquake with a probability of happening once in 2,500 years.

Structure and architecture are one at the 530-ft-tall Poly International Plaza, located in earthquake-prone Beijing.

In a remote corner of western Spain, the world’s biggest concrete-arch railroad bridge awaits the arrival of tracks and signaling for the planned high-speed corridor between Madrid and Portugal’s capital, Lisbon.